Many Paths. One Mountain
What’s this website about?
This website is about a journey. On the surface it may sound like my story, my narrative… but, it is more than that.
This is a journey through the head, the heart, and the gut and a lifelong quest to unites those sinews into a whole being who is completely engaged with the world.
The main character is a series of fascinating experiences, with minor supporting roles played by you and me.
Insight into these experiences is the goal of this journey. I achieve acuity by viewing these experiences as if I were holding them in my hands. Through this separateness comes deep reflect and then I can integrate that awareness back into ‘me’.
While I use I, my, mine, me, etc. in these pages, I encourage you to see beyond what we tend to think of as identity to see this act of reflective awareness for that is the source of my fascination with experience.
Finally, this is a journey of alignment and authenticity. The more we have of both, the more we all grow. The more critically we think, the more we stop reacting and start responding. The more we see that ‘you’ and ‘me’ are nothing more than projections of experience, the more open we are able to share with judgement.
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Where will you start the journey?
The Head: A place to speak from my head, from my intellect–lifelong learning, careers, and my other contributions to the sum of human knowledge.
The Heart: A place to share emotions… joy, heartbreak, lessons in emotional rigidity, and loss.
The Gut: A place for intuition and knowing before you know.
Stream of Consciousness: The blog–tagged, appropriately, head, heart, and gut.
The Alignment: The ways I now unite these facets of my experience and ways that you and I might connect including speaking engagements and “Authenticity Advocacy”.
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Who writes it? I do.
Who should read it?
Maybe you’re aware of something more than what can be perceived with the six senses (including thought). Maybe you have trouble with spiritual language and association but are a Closet Woo-Woo type (as I once was).
Maybe you feel the tug of the gut, the openness of the heart, and the incessant buzz of the brain and wonder how they might act in concert.
Maybe you’re hear for no reason you can explain. Maybe you knew before knowing that you’d end up on this journey with me.
However you got here, welcome. I’ve always enjoyed travel most with companions.
What do I get out of reading it?
Whatever you put into it.
I believe strongly in the continuous cultivation of a Beginner’s Mind (shoshin in Japanese) and I get there by turning off the busy mind (yes, I realize I keep referring to Buddhist concepts. I am not, however, espousing Buddhism… more on why here).
Put another way:
I don’t have any delusions that I am going to ‘tell’ or ‘teach’ anything. Nor is that my goal. I am, however, going to share a journey, a perspective. If you’re ready to be a joiner, great.
If not, great.
If you’re ready to share, I’m ready to receive.
If you head and heart are open, there is a lot here. If your gut is telling you to continue, I would humbly suggest your listen.
