Ray Holland Blog
The Chapel
Embodied Awakened Child The Dimension of Loving-Playfulness Inspired State is Mindfulness Builds the Capacity for Dual Awareness Nourishing, Healing, Safe The Fox knows not only where to find the necessary food for health and vitality, but where to find nourishment...
Magic in Moonlight
Embodied Artist The Dimension of Loving-Work Inspired State of Flow Builds the Capacity for Negative-Capability Inventive, Magical, Captivating The fox is known to be inventive and resourceful, solutions coming quickly upon her, miraculously pulling her from...
The Persona does not see the True and Beautiful
Iian McGilcrhist often mentions that how we attend is a moral act. If we bring a perception that assesses this world as particles drifting randomly (or arranged in only one way, the way we have re-visioned into a map) and identifies the creatures of this landscape as...
Jewels
Excerpt from Heart-drama: A Way to Beauty and Truth Over our years in Horseshoe, North Carolina, I calculate I have gone on at least 3,500 walks on the same dirt road. My dogs and I have become an integral part of this place, spotted every morning and late afternoon,...
What Fox Knows About Mating on the Left
They will deny completely that they have a paralyzed arm and if forced to move it, they will say, "there, I just moved it," while nothing moved. Iian McGilchrist Two psychiatrists walk into a therapist's office....This is not the beginning of a joke. Married a few...
Android Family of Origin
There are times I think it might be preferable to be a machine, a robot, an android. Such beings (or non-humans) can evaluate at length what is in front of them, set an agenda that will be followed unvaryingly. They stay-narrowly focused on the appearance of things as...
Mating in the Left Hemisphere
(A woman comes into the frame, smiling.) “Good morning,” she says with a light but husky voice. “This morning we are in the booming Horse Shoe arts district, in North Carolina, which reminds me so much of Venice, Italy, minus the canals and contributions to the...
The Outsider-Trauma by Omission
The drama is a little slippery. The title the Protagonist provides at the start suggests some kind of crushing force at work. The point of a title is to give some sense of what is to come, but in the enactment the family is presented as loving and well meaning. We...
Advanced Recovery Group—The Art of Recovering Self
Details Facilitated by Ray Holland, this is a group to help us get to the reality beneath all the lies we've learned, to get to what is true and worthy of our life. 1 ½ hours per group for 6 weeks. Meets on Zoom Thursday from 6-7:30. Starts and ends on time, though...
The Published Book: Heart-drama: A Way to Beauty and Truth
From the description on Book Baby website where books can be purchased, Also available on Amazon in soft cover book form or as an eBook. Heart-drama is a narrative nonfiction book which steers the readers to a pathway of renewal, directing them toward an increasing...