Namaste Life Pilgrims –

      December’s plan of tutored silence and solitude while physically and spiritually preparing for the pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash dissolved in but a few short weeks after leaving each of you to your own adventures. As my teacher explained….too much discipline in the teaching mode had made me a very dull man. With that in body and in mind I was released from my commitments and sallied forth into unexplored dimensions of my nature.

      What foreplay between the Light and the Dark this year has been! Shadow has transformed into Light and Light into Shadow. Both Bivalent, demanding Lovers. Carl Jung’s mantra “What wounds us heals us” became mine. Past pain became an impetuous key to open into forbidden spaces, places, situations, and complexities, my mind reeking with doubts and inadequacies groping for the balm of Gilead and finding only left-overs was unsettled until the Heart had its way.

      Light became Dark as I experienced the limitations of spiritual paths.

      Dark became Light through the wonderment of wall-eating dragons.

      Walking the earth in preparation for Mt. Kailash and Its Koras showered me with innate senses of order, rhythm, space and time unknown to me through any mechanical movement. Bliss filled communion of body/mind intoxicated every step….every sound…every sight….every smell. Even the weather was delicious in huge variation and rapid sequence. Any vehicular travel became a gate into abstraction and seductive power with the direct relationship - Oneness in Love - sacrificed.

      The direct experiences and images of the journey/pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash in Tibet and the exploration of Western China during August and September are too saturated for words…maybe later. I can say that my life has been profoundly infused and a future life in Tibet/China unveiled.

      This brings me to the immediate future. After requesting guidance from a Dakini/Goddess…this time in Lhasa …anticipating that I might have a life of retirement and quietude, perhaps even in a remote monastery in Asia, the Goddess left no uncertainty. “Go back and continue your life as a teacher in the West,” she said. Nothing more and nothing less. The previous time I attempted escape was in Bangalore, India in 1975. That Dakini shattered my illusion of becoming a sadhu. roaming India. Her statement to me was: “Go Home…….your destiny lies in the West” …..and so it was and so now it is.