Working with Shifting Identities

In this podcast, I touch again, on how we are in a time of fragmentation and division.

But this time, I speak about how I am beginning to make peace with that.

​Making peace with something in our culture is often read as resignation.

Perhaps all of this chaos, is the rumbling sound of wider reality metabolizing the trauma of modernity ... or the resonant thrum of transformation through embodied decay (which is how life happens).

Thomas Merton once said, "everyone wants the red sea to part, but the problem is that we have to be in over our heads before it does."

Merton also famously said, "My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going."

I think it's safe to say we are being invited to sit with having no idea. Not as a techno-fatalist act, but as an organic act of trust. In our own nature, and in the nature of the world, the universe, and in the nature of Love.

I just wrote a chant that you will hear when my album Liturgy comes out, and it paraphrases Ezekiel, "remove from us these hearts of stone, and give to us a heart of flesh".  And built right into that prayer, is the acceptance of our participation in the organic nature of being and becoming... like... maybe the reason we position ourselves with hearts of stone, is because we're afraid if our hearts become flesh, they will decompose, and therefore "we" will dematerialize... in other words, from our Newtonian viewpoint, having a heart of flesh feels like annihilation.

So here are a few tender ponderings on shifting...