Comments from Ellen Winner
Saturday, May 11th, 2013
Hi, Deborah,
This is fan mail. I just finished reading your book and am very impressed. Very, very deep. I so appreciated your descriptions of what you experienced and honest exposure of the details of your and Perry’s life that grounded it. Also, the heroic work of making sense of it on all levels including the level of mind (where I live and feel safe most of the time).
The exercises in the book are great too. I did the first one with my drumming group last time we met, and experienced how much more connected I felt with the group when in the state of being aware of the luminous body. I’m planning on working more with these exercises.
Now I feel more comfortable using the drum and taking it slow and easy. I can sometimes get glimpses of the sense of unity and connection with everything I had back then with drumming – but no further. Even though I’ve always felt a connection with the land as a sort of bodily identification, I’ve never experienced the kind of connection you describe with the Apus – how they revealed themselves to be sentient and loving entities with their own wills and personalities.
Thanks so much for writing this book and bringing back the lessons in such a clear and careful way with such respect for preserving the integrity and “truth” of the experiences.
Your fan,
Ellen Winner (O’Laughlin)
1045 Toedtli Dr.
Boulder, CO 80305
303-499-3204
“If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right.” – Coyote
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