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Compassionate Confrontation: How to Meet Evil with Love

Compassionate Confrontation:  How to Meet Evil with Love When my beloved adopted daughter Pamela was caught in the jaws of extreme drug addiction, my survival (and hers as well) depended on my learning compassionate confrontation.  To be only compassionate would … Continue reading

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Elder Community at Sevenoaks?

Residential Spiritual Community for Elders at Sevenoaks? I have a vision of a residential community for active old people who want to focus the remaining years of their lives on spiritual matters, gradually letting go of the activities and achievements … Continue reading

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Through the Door of Devastation

I am posting here two chapters from Love Unbroken which describe an initial awakening to the truth of what we are.  Such an opening can occur when we intensely pursue this truth, or it can descend on us unexpectedly in a moment … Continue reading

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Witnessing the Death of a Civilization

I was born the month that Hitler invaded Poland. As a result of Hitler’s invasion, World War II was launched.  Even as a child I was preoccupied with the issue of evil—what made people hate other people so much they … Continue reading

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My Mother’s Good Death

 I am posting again something I wrote over 10 years ago, a week after my mother died.  This essay appears in a book recently released, entitled Saying Goodbye to our Mothers for the Last Time. A Good Death Susan Thesenga, May … Continue reading

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Oneness and Terror

Oneness and Terror Experiences at SAND (Science and Non-Duality Conference), San Jose, California, October 2015 Background: In spite of having had a series of “awakenings” to my true nature as unbroken loving awareness, there remains a tendency toward anxiety—which often … Continue reading

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Silence and Stillness, by Donovan Thesenga

 Silence; Wisdom; Inner Peace Knowledge can be found in words; but wisdom cannot be found in words—not in reading words, nor writing words, nor in listening to the words that parade through your mind and clog your consciousness.  Wisdom may … Continue reading

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Re-birth of Helper Community at Sevenoaks

As one Pathwork helper after another lit a candle, we each shared  where we had been stuck, where our hearts had been closed, where we had judged, withheld, acted out…where we knew we had hurt one another.  And then we … Continue reading

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Help for Moms of Addicts

The following was posted on “The Addict’s Mom” a Facebook group I recommend for all moms of addicts. Addiction and Homelessness Homeless. We dread letting our children go homeless. After all, a mom’s first job is to provide a home … Continue reading

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More on Addiction, Ayahuasca and the Pathwork

1) from Héctor, from México: Dear Susan, I have been reading your responses to several questions on this book. In one answer you say that the Pathwork doesn’t treat addictions or so, and in the same answer you say that … Continue reading

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