Feeling it out

Everything is connected which is not a concept or a speculation but a fact. And the ego is a force which attempts at all times to maintain an illusion of difference, separateness, and superiority -- one of its primary tools being the repression of touch.

Everything is touching. Skin touches skin, tongue touches taste, nose touches perfume, ear touches sound, eye touches light. Tyler said to me today in so many words that if you be yourself and stop holding back lots of touching will happen. Because the impulse to touch is what is continually arising in us. It feels to me that if everyone were to do this a great unwinding would occur. It is about allowing interaction to happen. It is about confrontation -- a word around which negative associations have grown. But confrontation can be a vehicle for love, a joy to engage in.

So I, John Sandbach, suggested to Tyler to write a blog. Much comes out of his mouth about touch, and about many other things, which are all touching each other.

Touch is an art, and everyone is an artist, but most people are horribly frustrated artists suffering a long and terrible bout of artist's block. You don't need more confidence or preparation. You just need to give way to your own impulses. The Kabbalah says there are two paths you may choose -- one is the way of suffering where everything in you suffers until all the karma is burned out.

The other path is where you just surrender to your own creative spirit and on that path only one thing suffers: your ego. It writhes around until it shrivels up and finally dissolves, and then you realize that what seemed so scary at the time really was the best thing that ever happened to you. Or so I've been told...

I hope you will give us your feedback. Your assignment, if you are open to being given one is: touch more people everyday.

--John