This was unexpected. Awake in the night, Amy recorded this stream of consciousness, with no expectation that it would be shared as a podcast. Some day we may learn how to edit out the unwanted parts like the big yawns and the long pauses, but for now you can rest assured this is definitely not the work of AI.
We’re reminded once again that—as we keep saying—Living Medicine is emergent. As much as we’d like to be in control we must give way to a higher voice, to welcome what’s next.
Transcript…
The title for our podcast came before the content: Welcoming What’s Next.
We thought we knew what we were going to talk about awhile back because we were scheduled to attend a workshop with our dear friend Helena De Felice. She facilitates the Wheel of Consent workshops — a brilliant modality developed by a woman named Betty Martin. We were all looking forward to it — there were other people, friends attending, and although it felt like a lot of time to carve out — three full days from ten till six, being in a space with Helena and that kind of material, we knew was going to be incredibly nourishing. So that was what we were going to be talking about today but it isn’t what ended up happening.
Helena got word that her father had reached a new stage in his dying process that’s been going on for some months, but it escalated and she deliberated but it was clear where she needed to be so she cancelled the workshop and headed off to Sweden and that left our weekend open.
In many ways I was grateful, thinking it was going to provide an opportunity for me to catch up — whatever that means! — It did allow for some things. So we had a different kind of weekend. We were able to attend a call with my beloved Life Liberated (see below for link) friends who I visited in Florida in February.
There’s been some kind of fractious challenging things. Our 13 year-old orange tabby Willy who’s the alpha male on our street for his whole life is ageing and losing capacity and there’s a young black cat that’s challenging him and he got in a fight. I was grateful to be home to stop it and look after him when we got him inside, but he really took a beating.
And then when it came time to to do our podcast it’s like “what are we gonna talk about? What’s the value? What is Living Medicine anyway? What are we doing? So that was a lot of Monday - what to talk about and what John eloquently has been writing about and we ended up finally talking about was how when you set yourself up to “live in this world, but not of it” — to intentionally move to a new way of being on this planet there’s the energy of that, but it also brings up the shadow — what needs to be cleared — and in this time of intense volatility and disruption on the planet, where we’re all feeling it — we can’t not feel what’s going on on this in our collective field. It’s intense!
In A Course in Miracles they call it the wobble where you go from trust to not trust, love, basically love to fear, and that’s the edge we’ve been navigating. There’s a poem that Rudolph Steiner wrote. He died a long time ago (John can talk about him..)
A Verse for Our Times
We must eradicate from the soul all fear and terror of what comes toward man out of the future. We must acquire serenity in all feelings and sensations about the future. We must look forward with absolute equanimity to whatever may come, and trust only that whatever comes is given to us by a world directive full of wisdom. This is part of what we must learn in this age, namely to live out of pure trust with no security in existence. Trust in the ever present help of the spiritual world. Truly nothing else will do if our courage is not to fail us. So let us seek the awakening from within ourselves every morning and every evening.
When I wonder what I’m doing I remember that I came here for this. That all the choices I’ve made in my life brought me to right here right now speaking to you, dear listener, dear friend, dear subscriber! I rest in the knowledge that whatever is living me, this vast existence of love that is living me, is on my side, whether it feels like it right now or not. So I think part of what I think Living Medicine was birthed for is for me to be able to speak into this container and remind myself and hear myself we were born for these times. I am incredibly grateful for the accompaniment and support of all the people in my life.
Life Liberated is a project created by Keri Blythe Shinn and Jonathan Shinn. Amy participated in their six week offering in the winter of 2023 and she found it revelatory. A group continues to meet and gatherd for an in-person retreat this past February in Florida. Jon and Keri will be offering another round of Life Liberated (2.0) in June 2025. They are offering a series of introductory calls as noted below.
This from Jon and Keri:
We’re calling these calls a living orientation to the kind of spaces we hold. They’re happening in the gift, for anyone curious about the deeper offering we’ll begin in June—Life, Liberated, a co-created journey into regeneration, realignment, and radical presence in every layer of your life.
But these calls are not just an intro—they are the work.
Experiential, alive, intimate.
If you’ve done all the work, read the books, had the breakthroughs—but still sometimes find yourself caught in cycles of resentment, frustration, or blame, or feeling limited by your circumstances... this one’s for you.
Radical responsibility doesn’t mean blaming yourself.
It means reclaiming your creative power.
It’s the doorway to freedom.
We’ll share how this practice has transformed our relationships, our personal leadership, and the way we meet conflict and co-creation. You’ll get tools to recognize when you’ve slipped into old patterns—and how to come back to the truth of who you are. And, you'll get to meet some amazing people also on the path.
✨ Just one call can shift a lot. All four together will give you a real taste of what’s possible in Life, Liberated.
We’d love to have you there.
Bring your full self. Come exactly as you are. Let’s drop in.
📅 Registration Links
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☀ Sunday, May 18 | 11:00am–12:30pm EDT- Radical Responsibility
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⚡ Wednesday, May 21 | 12:30pm–2:00pm EDT- Personal Power
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🌱 Saturday, May 24 | 1:00pm–2:30pm EDT- Internalized Scarcity and Our Abundant Nature
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Authenticity & Belonging: The Foundations of Regenerative Culture
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