| Thank you for the privilege of allowing these journeys to have been made.
Today, it’s as if a space has opened. This 5 City Tour was made on purpose and even somehow paid for itself while benefiting others, harmlessly. We don’t need to shout to get along or to be heard. In Santa Fe, a reader of Journeys: Stories Our Bodies Can Tell said that a seed has been planted there. Now, with your continuing interest, these story-flowers can begin to bloom and grow!
Although Dr. John E. Upledger, developer of craniosacral therapy, and many others, had long ago asked that these books be made, the books would not have been finally completed and this tour made if not for your stories being in them. Consider: After the deep and heart centered work represented here, it was as if the stories had their own energy and desired to be offered to others. Now, it wouldn’t feel complete after my return to Florida, if some kind of an appreciation wasn’t expressed.
The alternative was for these stories to remain buried in the hard drive of this computer. And if so, for what purpose?
Recall, the story of the ten talents, and what happened to the fellow with the last talent who buried it for safe keeping. That fellow was thrown into the outer darkness where there was a wailing and knashing of teeth, decidedly, a state of inner conflict. Well, that talent was perhaps buried out of fear.
We need to be true to our talents.
The first event in the Bay Area was packed – a full house! Then, each book event grew smaller and smaller, but the conversation deepened. Finally, in the small town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, it was only a few people talking about the ideas in the books around a table with coffee. And it occurred to me that this is what a book is all about. A book is something we can hold in our hands and talk about with friends. And right after this event, around the table, the hired cleaning lady from the place where I was staying said that just that day, playwright Sam Shepard helped her to put air in her tires at a “T or C” gas station nearby.
(I had been following Sam Shepard around or he had been following me …)
The book tour was to honor real people and real places, perhaps as an offering to each person and the energies and effort that went into the writing of the books. The tour visited the real places where these real stories actually happened. It was also an invitation to the real people in the stories, just people living their lives. It felt a duty to do this, not as a “good man,” but as a somewhat responsible therapeutic facilitator, and to make this special journey with thanks to Deborah Nemec Tyner of CraniOcean Media, and to YOU.
Now, a resonance has been set up. I don’t know how it happens. A soft, quiet resonance like a pebble dropped in water. Or a splash of a brown pelican on the ocean. Or the leap of a dolphin, coursing through the waves.
As a poet and playwright, I felt it a duty to write these stories down, to describe the truth, as it happened. And as each story was written, it was as if the sessions began again, with the full cast of characters beyond my writing desk appearing. In the quiet, every word spoken in the sessions, within and without, was remembered and written down. This can happen at these expanded levels of health and well being. This is also what is possible.
The exquisite realization of Health -
O I say these are not the parts and poems
of the Body only, but of the Soul, O I say now these are the Soul!
Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric
Thank you to the better bookstores for hosting these events. Touch the Ocean: The Power of Our Collective Emotions was also discussed, and the newest book, a handy, brief, illustrated supplement to the series, “Cranio-What?” A Craniosacral Therapy Primer was introduced. Other fine bookstores on the overall tour include (let’s see if i can recall them all!) …
- Book Soup, Los Angeles
- Bodhi Tree Bookstore, Los Angeles
- Books and Books, Coral Gables
- Rainbow Bridge, West Palm Beach
- Changing Time Books and Gifts, West Palm Beach
- Sheelanagig, County, Meath, Ireland
- Oxfam, Dublin, Ireland
- Harvard COOP, Cambridge Mass.
- Barnes and Noble, Cambridge Mass
- Unity Churches, Chicago IL
- Phoenix and Dragon, Atlanta
- Borders Books, Cobb Parkway, Atlanta
- Malaprop Books, Asheville, NC
- Bodhi Tree Bookstore, Los Angeles
- East/West Books, Bay Area
- Awakening Heart, White Rock, BC
- Banyen Books and Sound, BC
- Book Soup, Los Angeles
- Garcia Street Books, Santa Fe, NM
- Integrative Intentions and Black Cat Books, Truth or Consequences, NM
And thanks to each person who supported this tour along the way of each journey! You know who you are!
What’s astonishing are the many high profile bookstores around the country that continue to offer to host events for these books, from Books and Books in Coral Gables, to the Harvard Coop, to Garcia Street Books in Santa Fe, and Book Soup in L.A. And just the other good energy places like, Awakening Heart, in White Rock, BC and the beloved Bodhi Tree Bookstore in West Hollywood, with thanks to owners, Stan and Phil there.
With this last tour, it feels as if the stories and the books have eased off some, so that I can rest some and work on other projects … maybe the plays again? Or dating again?
Ours, however, was a different book and purpose. Some of you in the books showed up at the events, and there were many new faces at each new location bright with authentic interest. What is wonderful is that the events were offered to you and others and to the well, the All and the Everything! It just felt karmically PC to do all of this. It felt, well, like being what, to me, is a Good Guest. And on purpose.
Again, thank you to each one of you who continue to read this newsletter, who plan to read the forthcoming books, and for your contribution of interest and care. Your reading this now is active in a mutually shared presence with others you might never know or meet, and it matters.
Why not create and contribute a high and delightful vibration, right where you are? If just a good mood … and we have!
“Stand by for Updates!”
 The Facilitator, circa 1999
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