i'm just curious how you're holding this, yo. Hy rob barbe has like hours and hours of talks that lay out conceptual frameworks so that you can enter this territory safely. And fire is an incredible tool, but it also can burn you badly. Is one over literalizing your desires, right? So i wasn't going to literally vomit in the middle of the circle. When i asked for my body to be eaten,. I didn't want you to literally eat my body, right? There was likeaho was sers tis existed in a kind of imaginable space, and yet it satisfied some kind of deep movement of sire. That was true. You know, he talks
In this episode fellow Monastic Academy resident Ellen McSweeney and I explore the relationship between Circling and Soulmaking in an attempt to make sense of the experience we shared co-facilitating the Anti-Fragile Heart retreat in March. Towards the end there is a Q+A with retreat participants.
If you'd like to explore the practice of Circling MAPLE is hosting the SAS 6-month Circling Training starting in June.
This conversation was recorded in the meditation hall at the Monastic Academy, and the audio is a little wonky...