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Each day for the coming year I’ll be keeping a private journal of my comings and goings, doings and thinkings. There will be a particular emphasis on a field of “spiritual” practices and disciplines, many of which are new for me at this time.
Once a week, I’ll be compiling my private journal into a single public journal entry.
A few of these sorts of practices will be new to you, too, because I invented them (in a manner of speaking) and am taking them out for a test drive. For example, I’ll be using a construct of Sacred Words called Lingua-U to enhance my daily contemplative exercises—but you haven’t read the book yet and are not expected to understand the fuller context of these things (nor will I explain it to you in the moment).
Although “spiritual” is a term that can be applied to meditation and contemplation, I want to mostly avoid using it. Is getting more exercise spiritual? Is eating healthier, rawer food more consciously spiritual? Is getting more shadow work and better interpersonal skills spiritual? I could go on.
These terms are spiritual if your view of spirituality is like mine, which is to say, Integral. However, if your view of spirituality is fundamentally about religion, pro or con, then you will have a different understanding of what my yearlong chronicle is all about.
Perhaps a better way to put it is that this is a year of transformative practices—not to say that I’m not trying to change my life 100% or even 50%, just nudge it in the right direction as expeditiously as possible while retaining coherence.
So this is a year of transformative practices, but also translative practices as well. I am not only looking to make changes, I want to make meaning. I want to more fully inhabit the life that I am living.
To make things more interesting, I’m also going to be sharing full chapters of several of my upcoming books, right here in the blog, free to download.
As you might imagine, I am probably doing this thing because it will help me to stay accountable to myself to meet goals, refine my methods as I go along, and abate a bit of loneliness. If that’s what you think, you are correct. I don’t expect a large audience, especially at first.
Come to satisfy your curiosity or for inspiration.
Give me a year and see what emerges.
