“In Touch” Newsletters

Essay: “It’s the curriculum!” I often find myself thinking this as we face the challenges and hardships that life presents. As valuable as our spiritual understanding and practice may be, it is the encounter with life itself that is most transformative.”

Essay: “Most of us unknowingly hide from being fully seen. We hide from ourself, from others, and from life itself. Yet in the depths of our hearts we also long to be seen with eyes of love and understanding - to experience that we are worth being seen and treasured just as we are.”

Essay: “While guiding a group inquiry at Kripalu last month, I invited everyone to open to whatever was wanting attention in the moment. As I did, I felt my attention spontaneously drop deep underground, followed by a subtle but palpable release. ”

Essay: “Last month I did a four-day backpacking trip in the eastern Sierras. The first night I stayed at a forest service campground at 9,400 feet in order to acclimate to the high altitude.

Essay: “I am sitting upon a worn wooden bench, next to a murmuring stream, surrounded by a lush forest threaded now and then by the silvery notes of a song sparrow. A gray lizard lounges in the sun on the nearby footbridge.”

Essay: “Our attachment to and identification with our body runs extraordinarily deep — deeper than our attachment to our beliefs and feelings. The sense that “I am this body” is primal, deeply instinctual, and largely unconscious.”

Essay: “Humanity is facing a complex, interwoven set of crises, that is rooted in our egocentricity. We are challenged to make a collective, developmental step for our own sake as well as the sake of all species.”

Essay: “What role does nondual wisdom – the direct and deeply visceral recognition of the seamless nature of reality – play in relationship to this overarching (meta) crisis of collapsing human and natural systems?”

Essay: “In the recent online series hosted by Open Circle entitled “Falling Open”, we explored the question, “How do I veil the recognition of my true nature?” 

Essay: “Adya’s Dharma Transmission Ceremony.” In mid-August, when I visited Adyashanti and Mukti at their home in the mountains above Carson City, Nevada, Adya invited me to receive Dharma transmission

Essay: “Where is “here”? I invite you to sit with this question without going to your mind for an answer.”
Video: Empty Bell Presentation – “This unusually small gathering turned out to be quite a lively conversation with topics that I don’t ordinarily address.”

Essay: “Amidst the Shimmering Aspens”; “Pilot episode for series on “Awakening”; “The Sense of Inner Knowing”
Video: “Join me for a short stroll through the High Sierra Aspens!”

Essay: “Grace Notes”
Videos: “Keynote Address for Self as Presence Online Conference”; “Talk to the Study Society of London (Colet House)”

Essay: “The Tree of Life”
Podcast interview: “Awareness Explorers”
Book Review: Opening Yourself  by Ken Bradford

Essay “Anchoring in Silence: Ground Zero”; Documentary Film Crew; “Zero Circle” by Rumi; Video recordings from “Finding our Deepest Ground” 2021 Open Circle online event
Podcast interview: “Archeologist of the Heart” by awakin.org
Book reviews: The Direct Way by Adyashanti; A Blade of Grass by Henry Shukman

Essay: “Telling Ourselves Lies and Truth”; Future of Life podcast
Book Reviews: Zenworld: A Perilous Journey of Adventure and Awakening by Kaisa Puhakka; Falling Open in a World Falling Apart by Amoda Maa

Essay: “Notice has been Served”
YouTube Videos: “The Ground and the Heart” from Open Circle day-long retreat in May
Video: “Climate Change and Social Justice” with Dr. John Mihalik

Essay: “Virus as Pointer”
Audiobook version of The Deep Heart link
Book review: Neurodharma by Rick Hanson

Video: “The Centrality of the Heart in Being Human” from SAND conference 2018
Podcast: “Insights at the Edge” by Tami Simon with John
Video: Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview #2 by Rick Archer
Video: “Bliss and Grit” interview #2 with Brooke Thomas and Vanessa Stone
Podcast: Interview with Michael Stone
Ralston White retreat photo 2020

Essay: free excerpt from The Deep Heart
Ralston White retreat photo 2019
Book review: The Recognition of Our Own Heart by Joan Ruvinsky

Essay: “The Inner Pilgrimage”
YouTube videos of Jean Klein from 1987
Book review: The Way of Effortless Mindfulness by Loch Kelly; Love on Every Breath by Lama Palden

Essay: “The Centrality of the Heart”
Photo from Greenwich, Conn. retreat

Essay: “Coming Home”
Book reviews: The Blind Spot Effect by Kelly Boys; Awakened Relating by Lynn Marie Lumiere

Essay: “Random Acts of Gratitude”
Photo: Ralston White Retreat 2018