I just found out my new book Deep Knowing won a National Indie Excellence Award!!!!!
Books
Metaphor connects us with the Divine.
Metaphor connects our human brain with spiritual dimensions. When we shift from perceiving and knowing with our linear, analytical mind to a spatial, artistic way of knowing based in metaphor, we’re able to access a field of divine intelligence. This was documented in neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight. But because our [ Read more … ]
Finding your people to guide you home by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
“Home isn’t Mom and Dad and Sis and Bud. Home isn’t where they have to let you in. It’s not a place at all. Home is imaginary.” “Home, imagined, comes to be. It is real, realer than any other place, but you can’t get to it unless your people show you how to imagine it—whoever [ Read more … ]
Creating third space when you teach, train, coach or mentor
I’m getting ready to fly to the midwest to do a workshop and book event in my hometown. In honor of the occasion, I’ll share a few words on “third space” in the teaching, training, coaching and mentoring relationship. (You can read more in chapter 6 of my book, Getting Messy: A Guide to Taking [ Read more … ]
What is aesthetic space and why is it important?
Philosophers throughout history have asserted that “the fundamental nature of the world is aesthetic” (Alfred North Whitehead, Gregory Bateson,James Hillman, Martin Foss,Donald Winnicott to name a few.) The word aesthetics comes from the Greek word “aisthenesthai” which is the ability to perceive. James Hillman writes, “Aesthetics in this primordial sense involves sensing the things of [ Read more … ]
