Making Impossible Decisions in Insane Times - Part One

The thread of my own journey...

One of the reasons I decided to pick this blog up again is that the way I point to things in quick short bursts does not even begin to represent what I see, the values I hold and how the spiritual principles I follow in relationship to my relationship to the world.

The first thing that I want to point out from how I approach life as a spiritual practice is that there is a very very different thing between the human being and their soul and thought forms, belief systems, even behavior. I am always able to hold the humanity of someone or a group, and that doesn’t mean that they are immune from criticism because “we are all one”. We are. But in the realm of duality, as humans that we came to be, discernment and sovereignty are the key lessons we are here to learn.

One of my gifts, that is self evident whether you can see it or not, is my ability to see complex threads and how seemingly unrelated things are in fact connected and inform one another. My writing is more circular than linear and you may find it incoherent to the way your brain works - that is ok. But my experience is that I point to things like one of those paintings you stare and and you can’t see it until all of a sudden there is a 3D face of a lion popping out at you and you can’t believe you couldn’t see it before.

I believe humanity is in a very important choice point.

The choice point in my opinion focuses on two things:
1 - Embodiment and 2 - Sovereignty

Pretty much everything else is secondary and that is important to understand if you want to see the thread I am pointing to.

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So let me begin the story of how I have arrived here.

In the fall of 2000 I was just graduating college at NYU and beginning my full-time job with a boutique executive recruitment firm that focused on Wall Street that I had been interning with for a couple of years.

I was a NYC educated, Jewish, Liberal, Democrat.
I have voted BLUE my whole life.

I originally went to Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory. After 2 years I decided I didn’t want to pursue theatre as a career and I switched to the Liberal Arts college. I was looking at a pre-law curriculum and I studied Political Science and Philosophy, minored in Art History and took a number of Constitutional Law classes with top NYU law professors. I loved law. And there is another version of me who would have been an amazing lawyer if I hadn’t taken the job on Wall Street.