WRITING
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Healing and evolving awareness and consciousness are personal responsibilities, and the world needs more people actively working to evolve. The technology, businesses, and systems we develop will only go as far as the capacity of the people who invent, design, build, and manage them. I write to explore my personal experiences with transformation and how they relate to the shift taking place in the world.
I explore unfolding news and events from the perspective of human development and transformation:
Healing and the Nervous System
Health and Leadership
Transformation and Change
Non Fiction
I’m writing a memoir of my experience with heart surgery. You can find out more here: bypassbook.com
Bypass follows my story through my heart surgery, from the edge of death through surgery, healing, and learning to live again. The story touches body, mind, and spirit. The surgery story is a personal account of my strained relationship with my body and distrust of the medical system. Every doctor that I’ve spoken to since I began work on this book has told me the same thing: “The patients I see every day all struggle with the emotional aspect of surgery, and there’s nothing I can do for them.”
The root causes of my condition and the reasons I ignored my disease for decades are brought to light as the reader learns how I coped with my difficult upbringing. I was raised fatherless in a culture where men don’t speak, which led me to shut down emotionally and seek self-worth by creating the external persona of a successful man. I thought the strong man I invented could save me from my pain, but by burying my experiences, I isolated myself and neglected my health. Following surgery, when I failed to recover fully, I turned to science and spirit and began a desperate search for meaning to ease my suffering and help with my depression. I deepened my Buddhist practice, which led me to an awakening, and began a deep exploration of the latest research regarding the power of the body and the nervous system to heal. I was fortunate to have a Buddhist teacher who encouraged me through my darkest days, “Don’t look away.”
