7:31
So it was really interesting for me how the universe allowed, you know, took this as a cycle and showed him the way and he followed the energy and so. There are lots of different stories like that but I feel that if people go in with the premise of understanding that mastery is about surrendering everything and that there are no safe spaces. You have to be afraid, because you know, as human be (hiccup) as human beings.. if we don’t have a little bit of fear then we aren’t motivated to change anything, really, I mean it’s kind of sad about a human being. and…
8:23
There is a wonderful book that I read when I was just to becoming a Reiki master and I can’t remember the name or the author or anything, but it’s a story of this man who has become a Sufi and was quite wealthy and he was from California and… when he got to the point where he wanted to be kind of the equivalent of a Sufi master, his master lived in kind of the eastern part of Europe, maybe around Turkey or Iran or some place in there. So his master said «Well, you know, as Sufis we live in community. So what you have to do is you have to divest yourself of all material possessions, your house, your car, all your money. Give it away. Whatever you do, you do something! Don’t save a Cent and then come to us and be a part of our community. That’s your next step». Well of course he couldn’t do it, right? So he put in this very safe, impersonal some kind of an account 0933- (cough)
9:38

ab6:07
And I realized that because a friend of mine who’s a Sufi, who would, I would… she would attend or I would attend some of her sessions and we would chant and we would whirl like the whirling Dervishes after hours and hours of chanting and doing movement and so on. And after we whirled, she would say “ok, now time for coffee and cigarettes”. Because that was the way…. culturally .. that they came back to the relative world. And I didn’t drink coffee and I barely smoked back then but I did smoke a cigarette and drank black tea.
6:54

6.00
and… I invited Paul, and I really wanted him to do some of this Aikido-work. I hadn’t experienced it but from what I understood from his sharing I knew that it would benefit the students, which it did, totally and still does to this day.
0620
I invited Barbara because she was facilitator of groups and we did kind of pseudo-therapeutic exercises together. I invited a friend of mine who was a Sufisheka who was initiated to lead Sufi-dances and walks which were also very beautiful and very provocative. I invited a friends of mine who was a trained psychic and she helped lead the group in… because we were all having these interesting psychic phenomenas, but we didn’t know what they were and it was through the gift of Reiki that these things kind of popped out and so she helped us to understand and how to hold them and how to use them and so on and then another couple of Reiki Masters who were therapists, Gestalt-therapists mostly.
7:22