Prelude Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Foster’d alike by beauty and by fear.              William Wordsworth, The Prelude [i] A dose of shame can sometimes soften the defended Heart, make our weaknesses and unavoidable, remind us of our humanity. But it...

                               Lord Lucky Merriweather Long dead, my dog, Lucky, chased rocks I threw, even down into the beaver pond. He would pluck those balls clenched in his teeth Off the muddy bottom and come up gagging. He had a furious commitment to the game,...

Lucky My first dog was named Lucky Merriweather. He was a liver-colored Springer Spaniel with scraggly hair that stuck like fur potholders to the furniture. When I was a young boy, he was a solid, steady force for me. We were puppies together for a time, and, with...

  Destroyed by Madness I saw the best minds of my generation, destroyed by madness, starving hysterically naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.”       Allen Ginsberg. Howl [i]  Like the Abnormal energies of a...

Though there may be many ego-characters generated from being so lost and wounded, the following pages will depict a few that show up regularly in a Heart-drama: the Outcast/Burdened, the Worker/Addict, Colonizer/Android, and the Destroyer/Shopkeeper. Not Good Enough...

Embodied as The Lover The Dimension of Powerful-Work Inspired State of Attunement Builds the Capacity for Discernment   Energetic Cunning Unleashed Hunters prefer to believe in their destructive illusions and ego-invented creeds and are blind to the mammalian need to...

Embodied as The Lover The Dimension of Powerful-Work Inspired State of Attunement Builds the Capacity for Unconditional Love   Responsive, Self-Mastery, Strength There is enormous power in the rising of leopard energy. Though appearing languid when at rest, harmless...

Embodied Artist The Dimension of Loving-Work Inspired State is Flow Builds the Capacity for Fulfillment   Inquisitive, Curious, Open The Fox moves in Flow, which is not a state limited to humans. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes this as complete immersion in an...

Embodied as Visionary The Dimension of Powerful-Play Inspired State of Awe Builds the Capacity for Sacred Perception   Pervasive, Symbolic, Enlarged If the Fox was philosophical, he would posit that flowing in the Beauty of this world is a moral act. He would wisely...

Embodied Awakened Child The Dimension of Loving-Playfulness Inspired State is Mindfulness Builds the Capacity for Insight   Sacred, Spacious, Sensual The Fox is grounded in Tiger energies.   Though clearly there is immense potency within her, she moves as if floating...