A Funny Letter from the Field and Why I Post These Accolades and Testimonials

I received quite good feedback from the nondual community back in 2012 after the publication of my first book, Nonduality and the Twelve Steps. Then I began to let it slip that I was waking people up in single sessions. This was nondual heresy! And man, did I catch a lot of flack for it.

I lost some friends who were nondual teachers and a bunch of other people who were well connected with…well, basically with each other. These were the Nondual Cool and these folks knew a lot more than I did. For one thing, they knew that my so-called “method” couldn’t and wouldn’t work. Impossible. Arrogant lunacy. Of course, they all had their own teaching methods, but they called it a path, which made it okay.

The difference for me is that a method has to produce, and a path doesn’t. You’re successful the moment you enter a path, because you’re a successful seeker on that path. But when people participate in a method of any kind, they expect actual results.

My business was not with seekers, it was with pre-finders! I simply didn’t know any better. I thought it was crazy, too, and I was (truly) willing to agree with my critics that I was a fraud, because I knew I couldn’t do what I was witnessing happening through this unit. But there was one sticking point:

“Okay, okay, I’ll leave the whole damn field, but before I do, tell me what to do with all of these ‘awake people!'”

I dropped out of the spotlight for awhile and read Ralph Waldo Emerson for inspiration and guidance. Emerson told me, “Welcome the slings and arrows: they tell you that you’re doing something different. Nobody ever did anything great by copying somebody else!” He went on to say I didn’t need my former friends’ approval and to pretty much just blow them off. Which is exactly what I did.

I simply went to work double-time and overtime But I needed to get some credibility from somewhere. Hmm…Why not get that credibility from the people who’d actually tasted what I was cooking? So I began to ask for testimonials, and I’m still not bashful about doing so. That’s why you’ll find them everywhere on this site:

~On the Meetings page
~On the bottom of the Even More page
~Throughout the site in posts labeled Letters from the Field or Notes from the Field

I’ll never hide this light under a bushel. What would be the point? It is what it is and it does what it does. I don’t know why. I don’t take credit for it. It just happens.

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