CAROLYN CONGER, PhD

© Richard Chamberlain 2015

© Melora Walters 2015

I wrote this during a Carolyn Conger 5 day consciousness seminar given at a ranch near Sacramento. The ranch owner was looking after her long absent son’s big gray dog Jesse. IN THE FIERCE, DEAR WINDS OF OUR SEARCHING, IN THE DAUNTING ELUSIVENESS OF OUR POSSIBILITIES, IN OUR THIRSTING AFTER AWARENESS ITSELF, ARE WE OVERLOOKING THE MOST MAJESTIC CREATURE IN OUR MIDST? ASSAULTED BY AGE SHE WANDERS AND WANDERS AND WANDERS, ENDLESSLY SEARCHING TOO FOR ONE LONG ABSENT. HE

FAR FAR OUT BEYOND THE FAR HORIZON WAY BEYOND US WIND SWEPT SWELLS RISE INTO BEING LONGING FOR THIS SHORE ON AND ON THEY ROLL BENEATH THE ENDESS SKY ON AND ON ONE BY ONE TOWARD THE DISTANT WAITING SAND THEN, SO NEAR THEIR RECEDING KIN RAISE THEM UP ONE BY ONE TO A GLORIOUS PEAK CURVING, CRASHING DOWN RUSHING TOWARD THEIR BELOVED SHORE REACHING REACHING FORWARD WITH ALL THEIR WANING MIGHT TILL AT LAST THEY STOP END RECEDE TO TOPPLE THEIR NEXT OF KIN ©

BRUCE JENNER AS IS THE GREAT LORD VISHNU AS IS A SWELL WAY TO BE © Richard Chamberlain 2015

Just as our mental and physical energies are always moving between states of expansion and contraction, or activity and rest, the world around us, and in fact the whole universe, is doing the same. Everything changes. In every moment, everything is changing in some way. I like the line from the movie, Phenomenon, where the dying protagonist says, “Everything is on its way to somewhere.” It’s a blessing that we don’t usually notice this, or life would seem unstable. When we a

I have arrived, I am home In the here, in the now I am solid, I am free In the ultimate I dwell © Thich Nhat Hanh 2000

In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.