Art Is Love Come Alive

One year later to the exact day of my brain surgery, September 8, 1998, I was in Graduate School. On September 8, 1999 I was sitting in my first class at Naropa University, University of Creation Spirituality in Oakland, CA. Under the directorship of Matthew Fox, author of many books the most notable Original Blessing, I was to attend a program based on the philosophy that any kind of creativity is a pathway to the divine. 
During the course of study in the WOTS program  – Weekend of the Spirit – I came together every other weekend for an intensive class taught by working experts and professionals in their own fields. We were taught by experts, many friends and colleagues of Matt, such as Starhawk author of The Spiral Dance, Margaret Wheatley the author of Leadership and the New Science, African Elder and Shaman Maladoma Patrice Some the author of Like Water for Spirit, and many many more voices of empowerment and wisdom.  
For me, as I painted, danced, played, read, wrote, and awakened to new levels of awareness, it was a time of total engagement in the expanding of my spiritual wisdom. I had already been teaching intuitive development and modern concepts of spirituality since 1986. I started my healing practice at 24 in 1985. However, my spiritual practice began in ernest in my early teens. 
Naropa moved from Institute to University status with the inclusion of the University of Creation Spirituality. This relationships ended after a 4 year existence in which I was a part of benefiting from. This divine magic was not lost on me. I called my time their 'The Container of my Healing' and my fellow students were witnesses to my gradual unfolding of feeling more safe in the world.
My Masters thesis is called "Forgiveness – A Path of Peace" and was originally one chapter in a book titled at the time E-Motion, Evolution, Revolution and the Human Condition.  In the early 1990s, I had developed for my students and clients a process I called The Five Steps of Forgiveness. During a one month stay in Sedona, AZ in March of 1994, I wrote the first draft. This manuscript would evolve and transform over a 21 year period to become Energy in Motion, Evolution, Revolution, and the Human Condition when it was published in 2017. 
If you are a creator, you are living a life of divinity so never give up in your dreams. Go, just do it. The world will thank you.