I listen to your last podcast this morning Daniel, so searched and found you here. I am so glad you did , for this article alone which articulated so much of what I feel and experience. Thank you
It talks to me a lot, I imagine I am in the process of letting go and accepting what it is.. not easy at all to have faith… when it’s much more chaotic in my mind with zero confidence in myself.
I hope it’s part of the learning experience, will see :)
Thanks for your writing! Some of the most resonance I've felt since finding the Art of Accomplishment a couple years ago.
One assumption I see you making that I want to push back on is that this kind of breakthrough or transformation being likely or necessarily a big, hard, dark night of the soul. I would guess that this kind of transformation can happen far more incrementally, easefully, and enjoyably than that.
E.g. I feel like I went through a tiny version of this kind of breakdown and confusion and opening over the last week. But also I'm just generally skeptical that any part of the process "has to be hard".
I can imagine a world in which much like a rite of passage, even with a sense of intensity, overwhelm, unfamiliarity, and fear, there is still a fundamental sense of being held through this process, even before one has secure attachment with reality.
And I want to push back on this because I don't want myself or others going through this kind of thing to think they unnecessarily have to suffer. That suffering or it being hard is "doing it right" and that it being enjoyable and easeful is "doing it wrong". Basically I'm allergic to spiritual grindset mentality.
Hey Harry thanks for reading, I'm glad it resonates.
I am not suggesting it has to be hard. What seems true is that it _is_ hard for many people, and in any case we must be _willing_ for it to be hard.
I don't think I know anybody who has reformatted their consciousness in the way that I am writing about for whom it wasn't very, very challenging at times. My guess is that with an integrated and well architected path that's engaged earlier on in the life before identity structures over reify that it might be possible to open in the direction I'm pointing to without too much pain, terror, disorientation, etc...but that's just a hypothesis.
Seems super reasonable to me! Or in fact I just agree with you upon clarification.
I like that frame of "in any case we must be _willing_ for it to be hard"
and as someone with less time down this journey, yeah I have already found it very very challenging at times, so even on just my personal experience I agree.
Was also just reading through The Church of the Intimate Web. Enjoying your unique perspective. <3
Thank you so much for this, I believe I'm also experiencing this, and it helps to make more sense of it. It's important to have a truly integral approach to such crises, which is both attachment/trauma informed AND spiritual. Otherwise you will either have spiritual bypassing or overprocessing of trauma and overmedicalization. It's so frustrating that many practitioners don't get the necessity of both approaches.
"…your breaking heart isn’t weakness but wisdom trying to emerge."
Yes—true and heartbreakingly beautiful.
Yes!
Thanks for this series, Daniel. This last one hits home for me particularly intensely.
Glad it resonates, friend. 🙏
thank you 🙏
I listen to your last podcast this morning Daniel, so searched and found you here. I am so glad you did , for this article alone which articulated so much of what I feel and experience. Thank you
Glad it resonated Susan! I hope you have a beautiful day.
Excellent series Daniel. Thank you.
Thx 🙏 a lot for this first serie.
It talks to me a lot, I imagine I am in the process of letting go and accepting what it is.. not easy at all to have faith… when it’s much more chaotic in my mind with zero confidence in myself.
I hope it’s part of the learning experience, will see :)
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Excellent analysis. Bravo
i've been deeply nourished and inspired reading this series daniel. thanks so much for sharing your view of the journey. blessings your way.
Thank you! So glad it resonated and inspired. 🙏
re the collective, we have peak economic injustice in the U.S. Marianne Williamson did a wonderful interview over at Integral Stage, imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm9BRtCDSgA&t=6s
Thanks for your writing! Some of the most resonance I've felt since finding the Art of Accomplishment a couple years ago.
One assumption I see you making that I want to push back on is that this kind of breakthrough or transformation being likely or necessarily a big, hard, dark night of the soul. I would guess that this kind of transformation can happen far more incrementally, easefully, and enjoyably than that.
E.g. I feel like I went through a tiny version of this kind of breakdown and confusion and opening over the last week. But also I'm just generally skeptical that any part of the process "has to be hard".
I can imagine a world in which much like a rite of passage, even with a sense of intensity, overwhelm, unfamiliarity, and fear, there is still a fundamental sense of being held through this process, even before one has secure attachment with reality.
And I want to push back on this because I don't want myself or others going through this kind of thing to think they unnecessarily have to suffer. That suffering or it being hard is "doing it right" and that it being enjoyable and easeful is "doing it wrong". Basically I'm allergic to spiritual grindset mentality.
Hey Harry thanks for reading, I'm glad it resonates.
I am not suggesting it has to be hard. What seems true is that it _is_ hard for many people, and in any case we must be _willing_ for it to be hard.
I don't think I know anybody who has reformatted their consciousness in the way that I am writing about for whom it wasn't very, very challenging at times. My guess is that with an integrated and well architected path that's engaged earlier on in the life before identity structures over reify that it might be possible to open in the direction I'm pointing to without too much pain, terror, disorientation, etc...but that's just a hypothesis.
Seems super reasonable to me! Or in fact I just agree with you upon clarification.
I like that frame of "in any case we must be _willing_ for it to be hard"
and as someone with less time down this journey, yeah I have already found it very very challenging at times, so even on just my personal experience I agree.
Was also just reading through The Church of the Intimate Web. Enjoying your unique perspective. <3
Thank you so much for this, I believe I'm also experiencing this, and it helps to make more sense of it. It's important to have a truly integral approach to such crises, which is both attachment/trauma informed AND spiritual. Otherwise you will either have spiritual bypassing or overprocessing of trauma and overmedicalization. It's so frustrating that many practitioners don't get the necessity of both approaches.