Like so many people in this age, I have had a
few compacted "lives" in this one, including a number of
years in spiritual communities, a college degree at UNC-Greensboro,
and a decade as a biofeedback therapist. But the life that
is most relevant here began in 1985 with the unexpected
physical demise of my then 21-year-old brother and his best
friend, which initiated a journey
[some highlights of which are to be found on the Breadcrumb
Trail] to come to terms with
death and dying, or that's the way I saw it then. Elisabeth
Kübler-Ross, the inimitable
psychiatrist and thanatologist who worked with dying children and
their families, used to say she wanted to be remembered not as the
'death and dying lady' but the 'life and living lady.'
Through these years since, I have acquired a similar
appreciation for the yin and yang of these archetypal aspects to
.. Life-Writ-Large.
Around 1993-4, while researching how I might mold all I had
been learning in the last many years into something on the order
of one convenient whole, and so, more easily accessible to others,
two things of significance happened. The Internet was
officially born and I met Rhea
A. White, who became a key mentoring influence
in regards to this by-now vocation that owned me, heart
and soul.
White
had been working longer and deeper with the same complexity of
interests since a near-death experience in 1952. One result
is she had already created a most exceptional framework
that embraced all this, which she eventually termed the
Experiential
Paradigm,
"a [new]
worldview .. based
not on physical data and logic but on the sum total of one's EHEs"
or "exceptional
human experiences."
Thanks to
this superlative accomplishment, a kind of inspired work she calls
a "project
of transcendence,"
one of its
many gifts was the small but happy miracle that I got to
skip a would-have-been decade of living out the done-to-death
story of reinventing the wheel. And probably not with
anything close to the finesse and genius of this highly
accomplished woman!
Since the
internet had just shown up conveniently at that moment, I thought
I was going to be able to skip writing books, too, which
never seemed a good fit for all I had been learning and hoped to
share with others in some useful way. In the process this
decade-plus since, I have only just come to realize that simply by virtue
of the day-by-day developments over this length of time, several
complete or close-to-finished manuscripts are sitting on the
'virtual shelves' practically ready for a final edit -- I hope. Now if
I would just stop long enough with this web preoccupation to
write a few publishers, waiting in the wings is this other little
life to experience.
The short-short story of all this is, over
time the original quest for understanding shifted to a tireless
passion for what has become this can't-not-do-it work, thus far
culminating in Ahhh-TheLight.com and wHeretwoworldsTouch.com.
And that basically brings us to the present moment, as this
adventure continues, with growing hope, even excitement for this
weary world, in the face of this wondrous revolutionary
consciousness Movement that is
surfacing into our awareness now.
