Mutual Accountability Group

Our setting: We meet monthly in a mutual accountability group. We are on Zoom across four time zones. We’ve been meeting for about a decade now, including at a common geographical space when circumstances allow. Nancy: … What do you need? Viv: I just need to feel fulfilled. How that happens can change from dayContinue reading “Mutual Accountability Group”

Zooming Way In and Out

A mystical experience during day 7 of the 10 day Vipassana meditation sit offered by volunteers in the Goenka tradition, shared by Viv Hawkins. We had been silently attending to the sensations of our body for hour upon hour every day, noticing them and observing how they changed, refraining from eye contact and speaking, exceptContinue reading “Zooming Way In and Out”

A Momentous Shy Leap

An experience of moving between two understandings of sacred text and their keys to unlock the mystical, shared by Viv Hawkins. The reason I’ve written nothing yet for Mystical Friend is I’m mid-air above and between two cliffs that hold meaning for me about mysticism. On the one side, the one which once spoke instructionallyContinue reading “A Momentous Shy Leap”