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From the 2018 book of spiritual poetry by Arden Thompson of South Bristol, Maine titled Journey. Click on the picture to enlarge it.

Herewith a copy of one of the Amazon reviews of this work that I found to speak my mind. With her permission to share it, it is my wish that you have it.

“These poems will quiet you when the world feels loud. They’ll center you when you feel lost, but mostly, they’ll reassure you that we are all, in our own way, on the same journey to understand our place in this world.” — Erin Lowell

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings had it right on. In my experience of reading that fascinating novel, it is about the epic struggle between good and evil. It addresses the momentous struggle between the two classic forces that, together, threaten to overwhelm us today. In the thirty-two years of some five-thousand H.O.P.E. Group meetings helping humans get on with their lives, I met that struggle many times. Tolkien’s first work, The Hobbit, came up often enough in H.O.P.E. Group meetings to pique my curiosity. I read it and was drawn to read The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring where I found the following dialog between Frodo and Gandalf:

Frodo: I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to do is decide what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, than the will of evil.

Kenneth H. Hamilton and H.O.P.E.

The first H.O.P.E. Group convened itself in February, 1987, and the struggle between the forces of the light and the dark engaged us for its two hours. We met weekly, and within a couple of months other physicians started asking me to “facilitate” a H.O.P.E. Group in their healthcare setting. The “struggle” was present in every meeting, and working with it was not easy… we were not “facilitators” but “coaches”. We were working with our fellow humans to find the resources Life had given then to meet that challenges that life was giving them.

When we in H.O.P.E. recognized that there was a “SoulCircling” workshop potential in our work to help people find out who they are – a spiritual being, their soul – in contrast to what they are – a DNA-structured physical being – I created a brochure and a business card for the work. We agreed that the model for the work was the butterfly and its wonderful process of change called “metamorphosis”, and if we would learn from the butterfly, we would need to encircle the creature in a gossamer web of love. With all this in mind, I put the Tolkien quote in the card as an attention–getter.

As the core passion in my life is to help humans get on with their lives, and I no longer “practice” medicine and surgery, I offer my service to as many who can use those coaching skills. I offer those skills,having acquired them over the past 40+ years since I was introduced to the remarkable career of Earl Nightingale and his lifetime study of human development.

I found immediate use for Nightingale’s rich experience with helping people get on with their lives to helping my patents get on with theirs. I used what he and all his friends were teaching me through the monthly INSIGHT tapes to which I subscribed for 22 years. Through this all, I became known as “the doctor who listens.” I have had the pleasure of knowing that my successful career in healthcare was as much due to my passion as it was for my surgical skills that came from gentle hands.

James R. Doty, M.D.

In that respect, I was just recently introduced to the splendid work of James R. Doty, MD, a physician/neurosurgeon devoted to serving humans in ways to help them “get on with their lives.” I highly recommend his well-written autobiography: Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart. It is a mystery how he was led to the Magic Shop and the guardian angel, Ruth. She helped him heal the wounds of his childhood and become the master of healthcare he is today. In that well-written book he teaches the reader precisely what I was taught by many other teachers for the benefit of humans everywhere. Do visit his web site, Doty’s web.

My Concern

I write this because I have concern that Iktomi, Lakota trickster, and Narcissus, of Greek myth, are two “archetypes” of human behavior that are separately harmful, and, together, are a force to be reckoned with in today’s world… compassionately. The pair are alive and thriving today, much to my concern, especially in the context of H.O.P.E, Healing Of Persons Exceptional, which convened itself in my surgical practice in 1987. What I have written here is the result of spending several weeks patiently waiting for power thoughts and ideas to play out. The result… five days ago a painstaking review made it clear that what I have to offer has beneficial qualities.

I begin with these wise cautioning words of Deena Metzger:

There are those who would set fire to the world.
We are in danger.
There is time only to move slowly.
There is no time not to love.

The Trickster

Let us first look at the trickster as an archetype, beginning with a pair of trickster quotes from Wikipedia:

All cultures have tales of the trickster, a crafty creature who uses cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief.

In later folklore, the trickster/clown is incarnated as a clever, mischievous man or creature, who tries to survive the dangers and challenges of the world using trickery and deceit as a defense.

With these images in mind, I now turn to the work by Kurt Kaltreider, PhD (1943-2017), and his 2004 Hay House book, American Indian Cultural Heroes and Teaching Tales. In Part I: The Cultural Heroes, he talks about three famous cultural heroes of the Lakota people: Dekanahwideh, Sweet Medicine, and White Buffalo Calf Maiden. In Part II: The Teaching Tales of Iktomi, he gives the reader seven tales of the Lakota antihero trickster whose name means “spider” – “shape changer”. The people of several tribes, of which the Lakota are those whom Kaltreider names, tell these tales to their young that they may learn the ways of the Lakota: act(ing) “honestly, generously, and in a good way”.

Let us now look at the archetypal qualities of Narcissus, beginning with what Wikipedia has to say about him:

Narcissus

Narcissus was a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty. According to Tzetzes, he was a Laconian hunter who loved everything beautiful. Narcissus was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him, causing some to commit suicide to prove their unrelenting devotion to his striking beauty. Narcissus is the origin of the term narcissism, a fixation with oneself and one’s physical appearance or public perception.

Combine these two archetypal images in any one of many wounded, confused and harmful people in our world, and include our President… he who gives so many signs of being the engineer of that train wreck, about which I dreamt some ten years ago:

A predictive dream

I was standing on a low cliff overlooking Penobscot Bay when I heard a great racket coming towards me. I turned to face it, and I saw three railroad cars of 1940’s commuter vintage off their tracks and headed for the water… without an engine in front or an engineer in the lead car.. The passengers all looked the same: paper cutouts of a man who looked for all the world like Mitt Romney, en silhouette, pasted on the windows. As it crashed into the bay, a huge, blind, aquatic mammal rose up out of the water and smashed it down, holding it under while all on board perished!

Today, I re-read Drew Westen’s August 7, 2011, op-ed in the New York Times Sunday Review. For me, he spoke to the essence of that 2009 dream… a dream that resides in my memory as clearly as if it had been dreamt last night.

What Drew Westen said then to President Barack Obama, I read again yesterday, and, in the context of that train wreck dream, here are my words to President Trump:

My message to POTUS

“Mr. President, you have until Wednesday, January 20, 2021, remaining in your first term. Please take today’s train that is just barely on its tracks and become its engineer, driving us to where Mr. Westen and I would have us go: to a land where public opinion carries more weight than the opinions of the wealthy and their corporations… before the arc of history gets bent so far that it breaks. Please do it, even if it costs you a second term. I pray that God give you the strength to get us back on track.

“You can do it. May the peace that passes beyond human understanding be yours…. Forgive those who harmed you yesterday, and commit to loving yourself with the love that you’ve been led to believe is outside of you. It has always been within… in the home of your soul… your heart.

“With love, Ken Hamilton, MD”

Compassion and peace are not intellectual abstracts! They make up a practice and an attitude that are exquisitely simple to learn and share with others. In the sharing, they grow.

Historical aspects

When I first began my surgical practice in 1971, I knew very little about compassion. However, I was known as “the doctor who listens” so I must have known something about it for some time before. I convened the first “H.O.P.E. Group” meeting in February 1987, which attracted the attention of the holistic medicine movement. I started participating in their meetings and workshops, one of which was a workshop on mindfulness meditation, in which there was a steady emphasis on compassion, and my curiosity got the better of me. It led me to the work of Pema Chödrön, a Tibetan Buddhist abbess, who taught me the practice of Tonglen to relieve suffering. I found it to be extremely powerful and effective. I used it regularly in H.O.P.E. Groups where the suffering of serious illness was commonplace.

Tonglen

This Tibetan word literally means “giving and taking” (in our Western minds “sending and receiving” seems to work better because it creates a specific reference to the relief of suffering.) It comprises a compassionate practice utilizing the breath, the lungs, and the heart… images that we can readily understand and appreciate. In its practice one can imagine that the suffering is like a cloud in the air we breathe. We can also choose to see the spiritual nature of the physical heart – love – as one of a noble transformer, which can change suffering into peace… nothing more needed!

I think it is so important that this simplicity avoids encumbering thoughts of being able to walk in somebody else’s shoes, carry their loads, pity, and even understand. I have used and taught this practice for nearly 30 years now. When I share it with another human being, the response I always get is, “Oh, I can do that!” And it is not uncommon to hear a few weeks later that same person say, “It works!”

Specifically, and pardon me if I repeat, but I am very interested in helping us become familiar with this remarkable practice. Imagine the suffering that you’re present to, whether it be your own or somebody else’s, looking like a dark cloud. Now, breathe the dark cloud into the space around your noble art and hold it there for a moment, letting the noble heart transform the suffering into peace. Repeat softly to yourself that one word, “Peace” while you hold the cloud in the space around your heart. See it transforming that cloud into a pure light that you can let go of gently in the breath.

Give yourself permission to see it flowing around the object of your thoughts and actions, be it yourself, another or others. Repeat as often as necessary until you feel comfortably lighter and more peaceful. As this feeling pervades, give yourself permission to soften the gaze in your eyes as you look at yourself, the other, or the others… let peace be yours – and ours – all of us.

A simple experiment

I went for an annual physical just before the Republican National convention this year. My blood pressure was 190/90! It used to be 150/80 without treatment. My physician and I agreed this was likely related to stress, and I was to apply what I knew about stress relief when I got home. It was down to 170/82 when I got there and I took a few minutes to do a progressive relaxation that brought it down almost to 150, but not quite.

I watched it for a day and it never got down to 150. After listening to the Republican candidate, it went up to 170 again… a classical response to stress! Progressive relaxation brought it back down, and in the morning, it was unchanged and I was disappointed.

I chose to listen to a 25-minute guided imagery of mine called “Deep Relaxation” and it dropped another 20 points to 132/70, where it stayed with a little fluctuation up and down for the rest of the day!

The next day, it was back up to 150; so I decided to do a simple progressive relaxation focusing on single muscle groups (e.g. “forehead”, “jaws”, “low back”, thighs,” etc.) repeating to myself, “Peace” while letting the breath go… Tonglen in action!

Imagine: some 15 muscle groups, fifteen peace breaths… about three minutes in all… while sitting comfortably relaxed at my desk… without any antihypertensives or tranquilizers!

Closing thoughts about compassion and peace:

• Healthy personal practices that benefit self and others simultaneously
• They work on the broad scale because we are all ONE in the Universal field of consciousness
• They hold us in relationship with ourselves and others
• The quality of that relationship is always a matter of choice
• There is no alternative to peace in reality and truth
• Do not wonder about trying to change the world! It just changed!

Margot and Milton

Years ago, a very dear friend, Margot Taylor Fanger, A.C.S.W. (1929-2001) introduced me to the work of Milton H. Erickson, MD, Psychiatrist, and founder of what came to be called “Neurolinguistic Programming”. Milton was fond of challenging “stuck” patients with: “I know something about you that you don’t know that I know and aren’t you going to be surprised when you find out what it is?” It would move his clients into a state of mind where, as a result, they could no longer hang onto illusory thinking.

I read the quote in a book about him by the man who has been called his biographer, Ernest Rossi. His book, My Voice Will Go With You, engaged me with the life of this remarkable physician. Erickson was a master at “double-binding” his patients to give themselves permission to see their self differently… free of illusions…. I have had several occasions to ask that question of individuals in H.O.P.E. Groups. It stimulates them to start thinking about what it could possibly be what I did know about them that would be surprising.

My sense of what that statement implies will be expressed later in this post. In the meantime, do keep it in mind as we look at what I do know about being human… both you and me… that might be infinitely more surprising… to have meaning….

A life that becomes meaningless is a life that falls into despair, and it is my appreciation today that despair lies behind all addictions and suicides.
Diederik Wolsak had the tragic experience as an eight-year-old of being captured by the Japanese army in the South Pacific and put in a prisoner of war camp! He believed he’d been abandoned by his family… imagine how traumatic that must have been! Wolsak’s life after liberation was one of becoming a meaningless, mean narcissist with multiple addictions.

In his adult years he became motivated to see if there was a way of correcting that dysfunction. He found the practice known as “Attitudinal Healing” that had healed a dysfunctionally mean, nasty psychiatrist of the effects of being called a “dummy” during his growing years… (He was born dyslexic, but the condition had not been identified before he became a teen–ager.) When he met the spiritual text called A Course In Miracles, he had an instantaneous, well documented complete healing. Wolsak had exactly the same thing happen to him when, helped by Attitudinal Healing, he got over his feeling of having been abandoned by his family when he was put in that prison camp.

A Shift in Consciousness

Also, I would like to share with you an appreciation that we are the product of a living loving Mystery that never makes mistakes… any more than it has “accidents”. No, my good humans, we are not mistakes or accidents: we are conscious expressions of the mysterious “Source” that started this whole issue evolving nearly 14 billion years ago. I would add that it has been described as a point of light, and it still is a point of light because you can’t get outside of it to measure it!

Yes, science describes the processes that comprise the Mystery, but cannot provide the answer to the questions, “Why? Where? When? Also, in an affirming way, we create religions to try to explain and explore the Mystery, but they commonly get lost in being judgmental. Above all, it is clear to me that today we are in the situation of being able to tell the story of how we ever came into being.

I have recently been moved to re–read Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaermann’s 2009 book, Spontaneous Evolution, adding it to Peter Kingsley’s 2018 Catafalque and to Caroline Myss’ recent three, 2-hour video presentations, Reflections: Healing Practices for Your Soul. Add their thoughts to the oft quoted Pierre Teilhard de Chardin… “We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience but spiritual beings immersed in the human condition.” As a result, if you are at all like me, you’ll find enriched meaning to life.

Matters of Soul…

Consider that we are actively engaged in healing the deep soul wounds of the intellectual, misguided 17th century idea that the existence of the soul could not be scientifically proven, and, therefore, it does not exist. Likewise, and of interest and value, the Shaman societies that have managed to survive tragic practices of genocide know all about the soul. Late religions have joined René Descartes and his fellow rationalists of the 17th century in denying soul’s existence. It has helped me to read Descartes’ The Passions of the Soul that he wrote some 40 years after his denial of the soul’s existence. He preserved the soul by placing it in the tiny little pineal gland in the brain… and that was where it was when a senior and well–known neurosurgeon taught my medical school class that there was such a thing as Soul beyond the Cartesian perception.

A thought from all of my resources going back some 40 years is that the soul is a form of consciousness that brings mind and spirit together as real entities. In other words, you and I each have a soul… it will leave this form when it can no longer sustain its life. It will reincarnate bringing the experience of all previous incarnations into the next life…. Yes, as Peter Kingsley says in the closing words of his masterful study, Reality, “We are immortal.” The power of the soul to change reality is a fundamental concept that H.O.P.E. promotes, demonstrated hundreds of times in H.O.P.E. Group meetings. It is the subject of Caroline Myss’ recent lectures.

What I know about you…

Furthermore, the response to Erickson’s rhetorical question comes from the mindset of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “We are spiritual beings immersed in the human condition.” This is what Peter Kingsley, Caroline Myss, H.O.P.E. Group participants… and many others know is a Mystery calling us into the next level of evolution. I am of a mind that says that this is a mindset of purification that destroys the old judgmental ways of seeing each other, and sees us through God’s eyes… as collaborators in creation, which is exactly what I know about you. Does that surprise you?

I recently got a call from a beginning student of allopathic medicine who was concerned about an apparent lack of physicians acting as “healthcare consultants”. The focus of our time together was the question: “Is there Care in healthcare?. My response to it was to recognizance that there is an overwhelming focus on treating disease with scientific algorithms and not enough attention to choosing attitudes that make the algorithms work. I shared with the student how my career became that of “a Doctor who listens” by choosing peace, appreciation, presence, awareness in my interactions with patients. I’m committed to sharing some important points that helped me develop a rich experience with what can be well called “healthcare”.
I wish to establish a point about “experience”… it is not about giving instruction. It is about sharing that which has become a valuable story that may or may not have any value to the listener. In other words, I have no attachment to how the other may… or may not… use the experience.
I also wish to point out that to “listen” is different – 180° different – from to “hear”. Listening opens to the presence, the essence, the core of the communication. In my opinion, this is what the Quaker Ecumenist, Douglas Van Steere, calls “Holy Listening”. He describes it: “To ‘listen’ another’s soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another.” He goes on to say about the soul “try to listen one (another’s soul) into life.” (Essay: “On Listening to Another, Part One” in his book, Gleanings (1986, The Upper Room) So I ask the reader to imagine being with another human and their story in such a state of openness, helplessness, and surrender that makes possible that life-giving wonder.
It was back in 1972 that one of my patients asked me if she could tell me something about herself that she had never told anyone before, but that she thought it important for me to know in view of the major surgery to come. Something very simple told me to sit down next to her, to shut up, and simply listen. When done, she thanked me and said she felt ready for her operation. She was, indeed “ready”. She sailed through the operation and her post-op recovery, asking to be able to go home on the third post-op day (when the statewide average stay was seven or more days for her operation).
In 1975 my practice manager introduced me to the attitudinal work of Earl Nightingale, for whom “attitude” was the key to the doorways of the gold mine of the mind, where we “become what we think about most.” After studying Nightingale for 12 years, Life introduced me to Bernie Siegel, MD, and his book, “Love, Medicine and Miracles” (1986, Harper Collins). One month later, I found Jerry Jampolsky‘s “Love is Letting Go of Fear” (1981, Bantam Doubleday).
And there you have it: my provenance that stands behind my sense that the most important thing that we humans can do to find the Care in Healthcare is to realize that “healthcare” is all about caring for another’s health… and it may be that which “listens another’s soul into life”.

I turn to the deep wisdom of that Irish Celt, John O’Donohue, whose 1997 book, Anam Cara, has provided me with countless, rich insights, one of the most recent being that of becoming “strangers to our inner depths”. In my synchronistic way of being, as I was reading what O’Donohue had to say about this phenomenon, a dear friend presented his struggle to find meaning in his life… not knowing that he has the inner depth that makes it possible to heal soul wounds. As I look at the struggles in our present-day world, I see an epidemic – a conflagration – of a hunger to find out our collective and personal inner depths – our soul nature.

O’Donohue says on page 92 of his book, “People have difficulty awakening to their inner world especially when their lives have become overly familiar to them they find it hard to discover something new, interesting, or adventurous in their numbed lives. Yet everything we need for our journey has already been given to us. Consequently, there is great strangeness in the shadowed light of our soul world.”

Take a moment, now, to perform a small very powerful exercise: see yourself as a complete stranger who has just stepped into your life… what has the stranger seen about you that you had forgotten or tried to deny?

Take a second moment now to consider what Earl Nightingale saw in all human beings: every one of us is born with a “worthy ideal”. Nightingale’s lifetime of study of human nature and success made it clear to him – and to your author – that the greatest service we can do for ourselves and each other is to remember that “worthy ideal” and serve it. I brought those thoughts into H.O.P.E. in its very beginning, because I have been doing that very work with my surgical patients ever since I heard Nightingale make that statement back in 1975.

Consider this: the behavior that infects us all – of note in our governing bodies in Washington, DC – is the behavior of human beings struggling to find meaning in their lives, but never going into the depths of their souls where true creativity – meaning – lies. Could it be that so many sincere, dishonest, loving, and hateful human beings could have been denied compassionate nurturing in their growing years when they were shaping up their brains? I have seen this many times throughout H.O.P.E.’s thirty years of service. It manifests as a hunger, and as a lot of dysfunctional behavior.

Every day, I find myself practicing the Tibetan Buddhist practice of compassion known as Tonglen. It brings me peace – peace that I extend to all those who suffer from this debilitating lack of love in their growing years. And I am no exception to this because when I was three I tried digging clams in Great Peconic bay, Long Island, New York, using a garden rake at high tide; nearly drowning; but being rescued by my aunt who hauled me out of the water, spinning me around, giving me a good shake, and screaming at me, “You stupid little boy!” Guess what… I had issues with “stupid” in myself and others for about the next sixty years! I can recall that episode with clarity even today, but I no longer experience the terror I felt back then. I am so grateful for becoming a stranger to my inner depths… and I still explore them when reminders appear.

Editor’s introduction…

Love and Unity, as found in H.O.P.E, was written two years ago by a H.O.P.E.r who had been challenged by a serious health condition. She had found little help in support groups and medical practices because their focus always seemed to be on what interested her least — disease, drugs, and doctors. She was looking for love and unity, but never found what she sought. A friend who knew us at H.O.P.E. suggested she see what she could find at the local H.O.P.E. Group meeting. I met her on the driveway outside of the building where the H.O.P.E. Group met and she told me about her concern. I invited her in, and she found the love and unity she had been looking for. She kept on finding them at subsequent meetings.

She became an active participant in that meeting, and had a mature way about her that led me to ask her if she would be interested in writing a post for this blog. She agreed, and wrote two! In the meantime, I got slowed way down (age? depression?), and her post(s) got put in a file that disappeared from my field of attention until this past week. As soon as I read it, I knew where it belonged… here, and with her permission (and I have sped back up, too).

Her post…

A few days ago while visiting with peeps on Facebook, (oh, yes, I love my FB friends) there was an interesting meme that asked for a description of our world in just one word. After giving it a nano-second of thought, my heart knew there is no way to define our present world in one word – it being two words; Love and Unity.
For those who know the bible, know that Christ’s words all add up to LOVE.
1 John 4:8 – He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Mark 12:31 – Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Romans 14:19 – Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Jesus time on our planet was spent spreading this message. A one word message. Was it a new concept? I don’t think so. We, humans, get lost or intentionally take side trips away from our true path. It may take a moment or a day or a millennium to find our way back.
And when we do find that path, often obscured by hard lessons learned along the way, we are then greeted with our next lesson.
The lesson of this time is unity. Its time, my friends, to find an acceptance beyond our profound love, as self-loving, loving one another as individuals, or all humanity, loving our earth, and way beyond.
That “beyond” becomes unity. The word of our time. I can mention religion here because there is a new religion that teaches Unity as its basis, The Baha’i Faith, with this writing:
“It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens.” —The Báb
Let me step beyond organized religion to avoid that constant; the fear of being lead or taught a theology instead of self-investigation to find our own understanding of our place in time on our Earth.
We have H.O.P.E. to guide us into and through self-discovery. We each do our work with the support of others who are walking their own paths. Our stories, our active listening, our loving compassion for one another, all make a safe place to become who we were born to be.
Unite with us. Unity is a powerful thing. And a very powerful place to live.

H.O.P.E. is in its thirtieth year and SoulCircling is in its twenty-first. The experience has spiritually enriched many, including me. It tells me that H.O.P.E. is in Rumi’s field. That field lies “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing where the phrase ‘each other’ doesn’t make any sense” (according to Coleman Barks’ translation of work of that Great Light — Rumi).

It has given me an appreciation for that principle of Attitudinal Healing: “We can choose and direct ourselves to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening outside.” Through it all, I have become keenly aware of the grace of compassion and forgiveness in helping us find out why we have come into this life.

This year opens a new phase in H.O.P.E’s growth and development. The decades behind us have built H.O.P.E’s experience with helping people find the meaning, value and purpose in their soul’s journey. The experience that began with five of my patients threatened by cancer now includes virtually everyone hit “one upside the head by the cosmic 2 x 4”.

H.O.P.E. has learned that its work, as derived from Earl Nightingale’s lifelong study and application of the spiritual nature of success that I began studying and applying in my surgical practice in 1975. It focuses on remembering why one’s soul came into a human form. We know that today’s polarizing life-style does not provide adequate time for participating in weekly two-hour support group meetings. We have learned that a single SoulCircling workshop works well in waking up the memory I refer to above. You are, indeed, a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork: a once-painted portrait, a once-danced dance, a once-sung song, a once-told tale in the annals of the Universe! Look around you and see how you fit in Rumi’s Field.

Would you like to have a SoulCircling experience? Send H.O.P.E. an email at hopeheals@hopehealing.org, and we’ll accommodate you. We can do it over virtually any distance, great or small, using Skype or Zoom, for from one to four participants… find three friends to join you and create a SoulCircling Quartet. It will take approximately 1 1/2 hours, for which we ask each participant to pay a deposit of $15 on registering and an additional $99 at the beginning of the exercise, using PayPal, which can readily accommodate foreign currencies. As an incentive, for every participant you get to register (up to a maximum of three), each of you can reduce your deposit by $5.

In addition, in preparation for this experience, I ask you to read Chapter 8 of my book, SoulCircling: The Journey to the Who,© 2002,. It covers this workshop in detail. If you do not have a copy of the book I will email you an eight-page copy of the chapter on receipt of your deposit.