Unteaching
“Everything you know is wrong.” - Firesign Theater
Remembering the truth (spiritual enlightenment) is only a spectacular achievement to us because of the large number of untruths we're taught to focus on instead. We're domesticated primates, broken as we grow up like we break horses in order to domesticate them. We're not taught how to live in reality, we're taught a reality to live in, and we trade our animal nature and our inherent communion with the world around us for acceptance in that false reality. In order to find the real reality again, we have to undefine ourselves and the world we live in and learn how to live naked in the unfolding magic of now.
Un-domestication simply requires a shift of focus - from thinking our way through life and the world as a domesticated human to sensing our way like an untamed animal. As we shift our focus from the Western fantasy in our minds to the numinous reality at our senses, it becomes easier and easier to find and follow the flow of life, aligning with the intelligent unfolding of the cosmos. As part of our domestication, we're taught that nothing happens unless we make it happen. Yet, when we take our hands off the controls of our lives, things don't stop happening, they just stop happening how and when we think they should. Instead, they tend to happen more perfectly than we could implement, design or even imagine. When we listen inside and wait for life to tell us when to do things, everything that needs to get done gets done when it needs to be done. Doing becomes not doing and peace blossoms within.
These aren't things i teach people how to do, we're all born knowing how. I simply help people remember what they already know. I turn them back toward the inner teacher inside them, the life force that is blossoming as them. We're not living life, life is living us. I help people remember how to get out of the way of life, how to be transparent to and congruent with its movements inside them and around them.
Work with me can include talking, movement (interactive, improvised and meditative movement practices), bodywork, self-massage, card readings and homework. The crux of this work is the progression of noticing what's happening, accepting what's happening, being congruent with what's happening and, finally, being what's happening. This work is for those more interested in what's real than in what's comfortable. Happiness is not the objective. The objective is to be accepting and content regardless of what's happening, how it looks or how it feels. This is being one with reality.