The man who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive. Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it, thus making of it a "raft that leads to the far shore"....
THE WAY OF TRANSFORMATION >>

"One morning recently I boarded the subway train. As the doors closed and we began moving out of the station, a woman was seated nearby appearing to be fighting with someone across from her and screaming out loud to them. Then it was clear she was fighting with something in her head. Just as I wondered what was going on with her she looked me in the eye and went even wilder...."
HARMONIZING >>

"Why should gay people and gay communities have an understanding of and training in shamanism at this time? From a historical and cross-cultural frame of reference, gay people (or what some people have called homosexuals) have been associated with shamanism wherever found throughout the world. It is part of our historical heritage.
It is in our bones..."
SHAMANISM AND THE GAY COMMUNITY >>

SWEET DARKNESS ~ A POEM
by David Whyte

ON DREAMS