To Errol is Human

LEARNING TO TRUST! In order to relax, you have to believe that the ground that supports you will continue to support you…no matter how creative a step you may take. And why would you trust that? Well, you trust it all the time. Every time you take a step, you're actually falling and meeting the ground which predictably and even comfortably breaks your fall and gives you the impulse to take the next step. And you know how you discovered that incredible level of trust…well, here we have to take you back to when you were a little younger…when you were just learning to walk. Remember that? ("Expletive of your own choosing"), it was probably one of, if not, the most important things that you will ever consciously learn, and you don't even remember learning it? What's with that! Think about what you must have done to learn that "trust." After all, you didn't just learn how to walk, you learned how to trust. My dance teacher in college, Harriett Ann G...

Escaping from the Want/Should jail cell of your own making… your "Get Out of Jail Free Card, Part I Many of us spend a great deal of our life caught in the want/should jail. It's a simple cell…on one side beckoning to you is what you want to do . Your expectation: you'll feel relieved or happy or pleasured. On the other side of your cell there's what you think you should do, or even more demanding and hateful, is what you believe you have to do. "If I don't do that , then I will experience the opposite of being relieved, happy or pleasured. I will be visited by pain or loss…and quite possibly…piss someone off. (That angry some one or some thing will likely let you know it in a way that won't be fun, to remind you that you can't just do what you want. You may even take on the role of that pissed off someone…it's called "guilt.") Examples: the things you don't want to do to make money, to survive, to not get caught. The things you d...

Once you start off on a spiritual journey, you will be assigned several companions. One of them is "Yeah, but..." Every time you attempt to step more fully into self-realization and spiritual intent, especially in the early stages, you can pretty well count on "Yeah, but..." to show up at your door. As expected, "Yeah, but…" came by to see me today. I was attempting to hang out with another companion, "Why Worry? God's got you covered." Now "Yeah, but..." always brings an entourage. You've heard of "Yes men." Well, "Yeah, but..." brings along a lot of " "Yeah, but... men" --Lobbyists, witnesses and experts to prove its case and justify its position. ("You won't have enough money." "Nobody cares for you." "People are undependable. "Get what you can while you can." "You can't trust men... or women." "Life on this planet is doomed u...

"Hmm...what do I feel like doing today?" wonders God. Let me guess. God is in the mood for…love--to experience life in his/her universe loving through and as us? Possibly, but, as it turns out, she can only do that consistent with her nature. That's where you come in. "But…what is her nature? Isn't it love?" you may ask. Yes, but it also depends on her mood. God is very moody. For instance, if God is what's behind everything, animating existence, infinitized … clearly God can be moody if not out right… fractious... Between perfect stillness and the Big Bang…well…there's a lot of mood swings going on. Most any mood you could ever be in…not to mention, all that's followed the Big Bang. Talk about moody! So that brings it back to us . How does God experience his/her universe as us and stay consistent with her nature? Or more to the point…what are you in the mood for? When you're in the mood for pancakes…or veal ptarmigan… great sex… a ride on t...

Since the two impediments to peace and love are fear and ignorance, we can safely say that, "It's the Fear, Stupid." What we need to recognize to get started on the journey to global recovery. My friend, James, stopped by the coffee house today (my office away from home-office--Peet's café in San Anselmo, CA) and confirmed what I had suspected are the biggest impediments to a successful and healthy society… I had shared with him this passage from Bill Bradley's' book, The New American Story where Bill says, "The only things that can stop us are fear, ignorance, self-centeredness, and greed." James' top two picks of the week for the main villains dragging humanity around in the mire of disease, destruction and suffering were fear and ignorance. So how does one or how do we, as a collective, diffuse the fear and educate the ignorant, especially when the ignorant are too frightened to be educated or to ignorant to know that they are run by fear? T...