A special welcome to my new subscribers. 😊🙏🌈

I had a wonderful experience on Monday night with the Livestream hosted by the Ram Dass Fellowship. I loved the questions on dreaming & spirituality. Jackie, the Director of the Ram Dass Fellowship, facilitated a wonderful space for deepening Ram Dass’s teachings of Love worldwide. If you didn’t get a chance to listen to it, please do, you will love it. Here is a link to it on my YouTube channel.

My upcoming monthly circle (webinar) will be on Saturday 24th April. I am starting a new series on Ancestral practice. So for the next 3 months I will cover the whole area of Ancestral spiritual practice. Why do we honour our Ancestors? What are the benefits? How can we do it? I think the reasons for doing it are simply to give thanks for our humanity. And the benefits are making us more empathic and caring human beings. Without our foreparents we wouldn’t be here. We are the living ancestors. In Africa we say that it is important to remember our dead because if we don’t we undermine the very fabric of who we are. If elephants can do it, then so can we. What does an ancestral practice look like? It is not culty but rather a gentle bowing involving humility and grace.

I watched a Buddhist practitioner bowing to the Buddha in Singapore many years ago with three sticks of incense placed near his forehead. The three sticks represent Buddha (enlightened mind), Dharma (teachings) & Sangha (Our community). He did it with such grace and mindfulness like a dance; that I never forgot it. In the West we need to realise that Sangha also represents our human family and ancestors. As we remember them our life becomes more graceful. And as we think of ourselves as a living chain of humans holding one another’s hand we become less selfish and more caring. Join me and a community of like minded people for a circle discussing and honouring our Ancestors.

I just spoke to my friend Alwyn Myburgh in Botswana today and I am pleased to announce that we have officially opened our bookings for retreats in 2022 taking place in Feb & March. This promises to be a once in a lifetime experience for many people. We will be working alongside Kalahari Bushmen people who will teach us how to forage for medicinal plants & track animals. We will be at a new venue, a lodge in the heart of the Kalahari. And there will be a swimming pool and air conditioned rooms! So the heat won’t be too much of a challenge. Follow the links to learn more.

My teachings are moving towards spaciousness. How to help people become lighter and more open. We are often overwhelmed in our modern world with endless tasks. This has been my riddle. And spending time in the Kalahari desert, the wilderness of South Africa and now the prairies of Canada has renewed my faith in what’s possible when we stand in a wide open space, breath in the sky and walk into the distance…

I wish you spaciousness…

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Warmest wishes,

John.