I apologize for being slow with the blog, but I have needed space and time for my voice to rest. I am back in NM for the month just to work on my book, and I am very excited about it, it is time! As that work is starting up I will make a few remaining comments about HT-4 in Joshua Tree. We always complete our training with a ceremony in the desert, we go to the same place each year, and there are several things we do to mark the completion of the training. Each group is different and has it’s own level of expression and celebration. This year we had some exceptional music, sing along, and dance around a small camp fire. It was enjoyable, easy, and beautiful. Below are the musicians Kevin Doyle, David Gould, and James Snyder; and the blurry photo after is one of the Solid Gold Conga Line Dancers…they were exceptional too! AND one of the luxuries of writing your own blog is you can include a photo that’s a little more appealing of yourself, since in the Dancer photo I seemed to have a serious frown on my face. The last photo represents how I felt about the training, the night, the music, the desert…everything! Relaxed, happy, and in awe of it ALL! Love, David

Joshua Tree was amazing, the weather was the coolest I have ever seen it for HT-4, and Summer Solstice! I had a great time, and some exceptional work was done. I feel really good about our time there. Below is the photo of our group.

I am prepared for my next class, Healer Training - Level 4, taking place in Joshua Tree, CA this weekend. I love to teach this class on the Summer Solstice, it’s always a meaningful time for me. Simultaneously I am sending blessings to my assistant, and friend, Nisha, who very recently lost her father to a heart attack. I know the feeling when you get the call, shock sets in immediately. Death. How do you deal with it, when you have to deal with it? It’s unpredictable. So, I have compassion for my friend, as I have been preparing to teach this class. I know a lot of wonderful things will be brought to light with this class. I will post a photo if I remember to take one, somebody remind me! If I take my camera, maybe it will remind me. As you can tell I’m not in the mood to be overly serious in this moment, but wait…honestly the comments about death have stirred a few deeper rumblings with my own father. It’s true, I miss my dad more and more the longer he’s gone. Really with my dad and granddad, it was their stories. They could always tell the stories in ways that I could not resist, and as they moved on all of those wonderful stories moved on with them.

My daughter, called me today from her mom’s. We had been together for the better part of ten days until we returned back to LA last night. She’s kind of like me, we’re not big phone people, but today she had lot’s to tell me. I really got a kick out of it. I guess I am learning those precious moments we have with our loved one’s, it’s so easy to take things for granted when you are young. I don’t take as many things for granted now, maybe that is a noticeable transition that has happened to me as a parent. I still think about the last conversation I had with my dad, I think about the last conversations I had with a few people…it all brings me forward to moments of openness, gratitude, and exchanges of love and appreciation with everyone. Life is precious, I am so grateful for the people coming together with me this weekend. I just hope they come with a big appetite, because I am planning on serving up a big meal of healing consciousness.

Not to ramble on too much more, but I am reminded this moment about an interview I heard today on KPCC. The host was interviewing another person who has a spiritually oriented program on KPCC. I don’t remember her name now, but she has a new book out, of a spiritual nature of course. The interviewer was asking how do you quantify a spiritual experience, how can you measure it, how can you justify it? It made me think of my next book, do I want to answer these questions? Do I want to deal with this level of skepticism. I mean I don’t even think about how to quantify a spiritual experience. I feel it, I sense it, I hear it, I taste it. Then a caller (a psychologist called in) and said it all had to do with the brain, once the receptors were conditioned to think something was spiritual the experience was programmed (paraphrasing). I was thinking just the opposite, once the brain was conditioned to think something was quantifiable then that experience is programmed. Which brings me to the Healer Training class. I don’t question the work the Universe does, it would be a very boring place for me to be living without a spiritual belief, faith, and connection to all there is in the Universe. Larry Mantle, I believe that was the interviewer’s name…maybe I need to make a donation for listening? The next fund drive I will be one of those callers. It all connects up, I know the Universe has me on alert. From there I stopped to get my oil changed in my car and saw a magazine front and center w/ Oprah on the cover, not the typical magazine for her, Businessweek, or Newsweek. Not one I would normally pick up, but they were knocking Oprah saying she endorses a lot of unscientific practices. My views would certainly be unscientific! Thank God! It’s a good time to reflect…the closer this book gets to being birthed, I suspect the Spiritual Universe I am connected to is preparing me, and I take this observation forward with me to the Healer Training class, I can’t wait!

I think that’s enough for tonight. Love, David

It has been a fruitful writing week here in NM, and I have had a great time gestating, sprouting, and weaving this next book together. Some parts of it have pushed me to trust the Universe’s plan with this material, and when I have kept my focus, let go, and relaxed amazing things have occurred. I am starting to see the baby, albeit maybe the little peanut in the ultra-sound, but I am definitely starting to feel it’s consciousness and life force. It’s exciting!

A snippet from my writing today…

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The key to healing, love, life, spirit, connection, faith, and enlightenment revolve around you being able to love yourself. If you do not like you, you cannot love you. This is ground zero, the starting point for your work. Nothing in your life is going to bear fruit until you learn to love yourself and make contact with the center of your Universe, your heart, and the love that flows through it. You have to learn to feel love for yourself through your heart. You have to be able to feel the smiles for yourself in your heart. Self-love connects you to everyone, and everything. Once you love yourself you can effectively move out into the world and love others. Love makes you Universal. It is the foundation in which to understand life. It connects you to the Master’s who walked the earth, “Love thy neighbor as thyself” will begin to make sense when you have learned to love yourself, it cannot happen if you do not love you. For love to exist in your world it has to happen inside of you first, then it can propagate 360 degrees around you. You become a circle, a Universe of love. Can I be anymore repetitive, emphatic, or clear about this!

Recipe on how to love yourself follows this section in the writing. I obviously will not be sharing all of this right now. Neverthess, I will continue posting some bits and pieces to give you a flavor of what I am working on…love, David

We had another amazing night of rain last night, it came down so gently and life giving-ly. The plants look like they grew several inches, they are so happy! I’m happy they’re happy. Food is abundant. I am picking my salads, washing the greens (although I don’t really even need to do that, Mother Nature has taken care of the cleanliness), and eating them. The chlorophyll, moisture, and earth’s energy are bursting forth in the plants and it is so sweet! I am getting hungry just writing about it. Enjoy the pictures. LOVE, David

In the photo below you are looking @ Native corn, turnips and spinach in the row behind, and beets in the back row.

A portrait of some happy corn!

In several rows I have corn, tobacco, beans, and squash growing together. Abundance of spirit and recognition to the growers who grew these crops before me. Many of these plants come from the local pueblo’s and are indigenous to these regions having been grown here for hundreds of years. The plant below is an indigenous variety of tobacco.

Ok, here are the photo’s I promised of the greenhouse - LUSH! Tomato plants over 6′ tall and still growing.

Look at the babies growing on these gorgeous plants! They will be starting to turn red soon.

Did I say collards? They are almost too beautiful to eat, however…

Tobacco plants thick as hair on a dogs back, and growing beautifully!

I just had an amazing week in LA, and I really enjoyed seeing lot’s of people for healing. Finally I am looking @ my Fall and Winter schedule, but my number one focus is working on my next book. I am doing my best to hunker down in the Summer in NM to get some writing done. I am feeling very clear for communication. I have been cleansing for the better part of the last month, I am exercising, I have given up my morning cup of coffee, as well as my often times beer with dinner. Not to get too rigid, but I felt like I wanted to live for a while without stimulants. And truth be known I only started drinking coffee for the first time in my life this time last year after Buffy passed away as I found the caffeine helped me move past the grief. Now that the year anniversary has passed I decided (maybe she helped me) to let coffee go. It’s kind of the same with the beer. So, here I am in NM for a week to get the ball rolling, then I hope to spend July, and most of August here doing the same. I’m excited, I’m ready…don’t know exactly what will happen with the blog during this time, but I anticipate I will be sharing some snippets. Stay tuned. I’ll try to give an update on the garden and greenhouse tomorrow. Love, David

What the breath does?

It amazes me time and time again about the responses I get from people experiencing the healing work, and I wonder why they do not choose to do this meditation daily. I wonder why people resist what does so much to open them up and heal. I wonder why people resort  to staying the same. It does not make sense to me.  And then I remember recently saying, “the world would not necessarily be a better place if everyone was like me.” We need all types of people to provide the mirrors of opportunity to reflect upon our human existence. If it were all white it would be hard to see anything, if it were all black it would be hard to see anything, it takes contrast to see, to see depth, it’s takes contrast to make a picture.  Nevertheless I wonder, I wonder why….

Karma is an amazing teaching. Those things that we come in here needing to see, learn, and experience the most are the things we are most blind to. To teach people how to recognize karma, and how to be a bloodhound with that scent, as opposed to quitting when that old familiar smell surfaces. Literally to recognize when the shit is hitting the fan that this is the time to become hyper-aware! And this is the time people stop breathing, stop meditating, and stop working. This is the time to work hardest!

I am finally realizing the depth of what the breath does on the spiritual plane. It brings you front and center with your karma. If you are a young soul, and are getting around to living your life with purpose, there may not be any urgency to doing the work around your karma. You may feel like you have numerous lifetimes left to do that. Why hurry? If you are an old soul, with many incarnations under your belt, you may feel great urgency to get on with this lifetime, you may not want to waste anymore time being lost, confused, and distracted. The old souls are being pushed the hardest right now. Being an old soul does not make you more special, it just means this is your time to deal with your karma. You are in the batter’s box, and the young souls are getting popcorn. They are kind of aware they are at a ballgame, but not quite sure why they are. It’s a different experience for each. Neither is better. The same with people absorbed by their human experience, very few are aware of their spiritual reality, very few are aware this reality is happening simultaneously with their 3-D (physical, emotional, mental) experience. Honestly, I am most interested in things spiritual. The breath is the doorway to the spirit. It’s the keyhole you’ve been looking for. When you use the breath to meditate it opens you to receive your spirit. It does this consistently and successfully, because it most effectively quiets the brain. Once the brain is brought to a neutral, resting, dream state, the spirit can finally enter your body and re-connect to you. Memories return and they remind you about who you are, and why you are here. I have yet to experience any reality as clean and as pure as the entry point and convergence brought about by the breath. Many people use many substances, and other tools, as a bridges to connect to the spirit, but I have found nothing as clean as the breath. Keep breathing, keep meditating, and keep connecting to your spirit. All the answers you are looking for are contained there. Love, David

Now that I am back in LA, I think about the ways I love this city. Like anything, people from near and far have many judgments about sprawling this metropolis. Most are scared of it, and think the stories about the traffic are what defines LA. I always take up for this city of angels. It’s a great city. Opportunities abound here. Yes, it maybe busy, yes there are lots of people, and yes there is pollution! But so what, there’s pollution in rural countrysides, people worry about traffic in every city no matter what the size. I love LA, because there is complexity through it’s diversity. In the midst of it’s largeness there are populations of people working to be and live consciously. There are opportunities join movements, causes, be on the forefront of communication and media. There’s the mountains, canyons, beaches, and the desert. There’s everything here. Through these opportunities LA is a magnet for people of purpose, likewise it is a magnet for people with ego and needs to be seen and recognized. It’s complex, and it’s diverse. If you are looking for something you can find it in LA. My great uncle Bill Falkner told me,”Go West young man, if you have a great idea you can become successful overnight in LA.” I always remember him saying this to me as I traveled West. He knew I was meant to get out and explore, to find my way. KY was great, but I was restless there. I knew it was time to move on. I don’t feel that way about LA yet, I still have work to do here, nevertheless my time is dwindling. I have much less to do here than before. My roots are expanding in NM. More of my future lies there, and elsewhere. I will always travel back to LA for many reasons, I will probably keep a place here, nevertheless I will be here less, and for some reason I need to say it is not because of how I feel about LA. It’s because my employer needs me elsewhere. I’ve stopped resisting, now I follow the signs, I follow the guidance, I go. Onward. Love, David