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01/05/2025 9:50 am
I am finding the more I connect inwards, discovering shadow parts of myself, the more empathy moves outwards. Using tools within transpersonal coaching and psychology to unlock and follow my heart minds path, not only do I find myself setting and achieving goals but I also become more of a participant in the world. Speaking my mind on issues going on within the world. Women’s equality, Human rights for trans people, the conflicts that are going on in the world such as Gaza and Ukraine.
It points to me how the microcosm and macrocosm are enmeshed and one. We are not a drop in the ocean, but the ocean in a drop as the Sufi poet Rumi says. The survival mechanisms we may have put in place when children that caused us to numb ourselves or disassociate from some experience didn’t just have an effect on the thing we were not wanting to experience, but stopped us from experiencing so much more. As we shine light on the shadow the aperture of awareness widens naturally and we re-member who we are.
Open awareness lets us encourage that natural awareness to greaten. Seeing beyond the labels and identifications. But at the same time allows more strength of the personal expression to be in the world. With compassion, insight and wisdom.
04/06/2025 10:52 am
Dear Craig,
Reading your post, I found myself discovering a deeper meaning in the word re-member. It turned its previously hidden side toward me, revealing the sense of participation at its core. What shifted in me now is the relatedness in re-membering not just pointing to memory, but to member-ship. This shift beautifully symbolizes the equality of form among beings.
There's an expression deeply engraved in me, one I embodied through metaphysical studies earlier in my life, that says: “We’re equal, but not the same.” Indeed, this understanding places us in a position where it becomes nearly impossible to cause harm or to engage in the kinds of collective shadow you mentioned, like war, sexism, or racism.
While people often strive for external change or attempt to control circumstances through force, the true key, paradoxically, lies in transforming the world-view. Still, as we know by now, such inner transformations often require the presence of a compassionate other. In that presence, in that union, we are given the chance to return to our senses and evolve.
The sense of separateness inherently contains a body of suffering, giving rise to emotions like greed, jealousy, lack, competition, and comparison. But when we truly understand our interconnectedness, these emotions lose their relevance, they become obsolete.
Again and again, I see the power of the pillars of the transpersonal approach, and our role as transpersonal coaches — to hold space for that re-membering. To do so as equal partners in the coach-coachee relationship. In an open state of perception, where oneness is evident, the urge to force or control life dissolves, and resistance softens, and transformation can emerge naturally.
“My job is to be a space where nothing in me is preventing the changes that want to emerge in you.”
— Ram Dass
07/11/2025 9:42 pm
Dear Inna,
Your reflection confirms something I have long known — the sacred call to remember.
To remember is to return — to go back to the essence of who we truly are beyond conditioning, beyond form, beyond the layers that life has wrapped around our being. Remembering is not about recalling the past, but about reclaiming the Self — that divine spark that has always been.
Through my own journey of remembrance and awakening, I have come to understand that this is where true liberation lies. It is the quiet yet powerful unfolding of consciousness that realigns us with our Higher power. It demands presence, intentionality, and courage — the willingness to see beyond illusion and to face the parts of self that once felt forgotten.
We do not go through this process solely for ourselves, but for the collective. Every time one soul remembers, the vibration of the whole is lifted. Within every life experience lies hidden knowledge waiting to be unveiled, for nothing in life is wasted. Each event is a key, designed to awaken us a little more to our true nature.
As transpersonal practitioners, holding space for remembrance is the highest form of service. We become mirrors through which others can recognize their own divine reflection and begin to remember who they are.
With Love & Light,
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12/01/2026 3:45 pm
@inna Dear Inna,
Thank you for your reflexions and the reminder of re-memberance. It causes me to also contemplate our own need as coaches to be in observance to ourselves. We can easily be so focused on how we are here to be of service to a higher power/divinity/humanity but to truly be able to hold that dutiful space, we need to be taking care of our own needs. Our basic needs of course but also our continued self exploration in what ever form that might take. Without this we can easily either lose our own foundational grounding to be a holding space for clients or there may be the danger of identifying and inflating the ego self. Within Transpersonal Coaching we already have the tools to be able to help keep things in balance. Looking after our mental and spiritual health using meditational, awareness and somatic practices.
These practices are also so beneficial for helping us to see that there is a way of observing ourselves as the unique individual we are but also that we are not a sole separate entity. We are part of the beauty that is the whole, the collective, and our actions we choose to put in the world are not at something separate but towards and enmeshed in part of who we are too. Re-membering us to be that wholeness. Win-win-win, We are benefiting ourselves, that benefits others that in turn also benefits the greater broader environment.
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Topic starter
01/05/2025 9:50 am
I am finding the more I connect inwards, discovering shadow parts of myself, the more empathy moves outwards. Using tools within transpersonal coaching and psychology to unlock and follow my heart minds path, not only do I find myself setting and achieving goals but I also become more of a participant in the world. Speaking my mind on issues going on within the world. Women’s equality, Human rights for trans people, the conflicts that are going on in the world such as Gaza and Ukraine.
It points to me how the microcosm and macrocosm are enmeshed and one. We are not a drop in the ocean, but the ocean in a drop as the Sufi poet Rumi says. The survival mechanisms we may have put in place when children that caused us to numb ourselves or disassociate from some experience didn’t just have an effect on the thing we were not wanting to experience, but stopped us from experiencing so much more. As we shine light on the shadow the aperture of awareness widens naturally and we re-member who we are.
Open awareness lets us encourage that natural awareness to greaten. Seeing beyond the labels and identifications. But at the same time allows more strength of the personal expression to be in the world. With compassion, insight and wisdom.
04/06/2025 10:52 am
Dear Craig,
Reading your post, I found myself discovering a deeper meaning in the word re-member. It turned its previously hidden side toward me, revealing the sense of participation at its core. What shifted in me now is the relatedness in re-membering not just pointing to memory, but to member-ship. This shift beautifully symbolizes the equality of form among beings.
There's an expression deeply engraved in me, one I embodied through metaphysical studies earlier in my life, that says: “We’re equal, but not the same.” Indeed, this understanding places us in a position where it becomes nearly impossible to cause harm or to engage in the kinds of collective shadow you mentioned, like war, sexism, or racism.
While people often strive for external change or attempt to control circumstances through force, the true key, paradoxically, lies in transforming the world-view. Still, as we know by now, such inner transformations often require the presence of a compassionate other. In that presence, in that union, we are given the chance to return to our senses and evolve.
The sense of separateness inherently contains a body of suffering, giving rise to emotions like greed, jealousy, lack, competition, and comparison. But when we truly understand our interconnectedness, these emotions lose their relevance, they become obsolete.
Again and again, I see the power of the pillars of the transpersonal approach, and our role as transpersonal coaches — to hold space for that re-membering. To do so as equal partners in the coach-coachee relationship. In an open state of perception, where oneness is evident, the urge to force or control life dissolves, and resistance softens, and transformation can emerge naturally.
“My job is to be a space where nothing in me is preventing the changes that want to emerge in you.”
— Ram Dass
07/11/2025 9:42 pm
Dear Inna,
Your reflection confirms something I have long known — the sacred call to remember.
To remember is to return — to go back to the essence of who we truly are beyond conditioning, beyond form, beyond the layers that life has wrapped around our being. Remembering is not about recalling the past, but about reclaiming the Self — that divine spark that has always been.
Through my own journey of remembrance and awakening, I have come to understand that this is where true liberation lies. It is the quiet yet powerful unfolding of consciousness that realigns us with our Higher power. It demands presence, intentionality, and courage — the willingness to see beyond illusion and to face the parts of self that once felt forgotten.
We do not go through this process solely for ourselves, but for the collective. Every time one soul remembers, the vibration of the whole is lifted. Within every life experience lies hidden knowledge waiting to be unveiled, for nothing in life is wasted. Each event is a key, designed to awaken us a little more to our true nature.
As transpersonal practitioners, holding space for remembrance is the highest form of service. We become mirrors through which others can recognize their own divine reflection and begin to remember who they are.
With Love & Light,
Topic starter
12/01/2026 3:45 pm
@inna Dear Inna,
Thank you for your reflexions and the reminder of re-memberance. It causes me to also contemplate our own need as coaches to be in observance to ourselves. We can easily be so focused on how we are here to be of service to a higher power/divinity/humanity but to truly be able to hold that dutiful space, we need to be taking care of our own needs. Our basic needs of course but also our continued self exploration in what ever form that might take. Without this we can easily either lose our own foundational grounding to be a holding space for clients or there may be the danger of identifying and inflating the ego self. Within Transpersonal Coaching we already have the tools to be able to help keep things in balance. Looking after our mental and spiritual health using meditational, awareness and somatic practices.
These practices are also so beneficial for helping us to see that there is a way of observing ourselves as the unique individual we are but also that we are not a sole separate entity. We are part of the beauty that is the whole, the collective, and our actions we choose to put in the world are not at something separate but towards and enmeshed in part of who we are too. Re-membering us to be that wholeness. Win-win-win, We are benefiting ourselves, that benefits others that in turn also benefits the greater broader environment.
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