You alone are accountable for your soul.

Learn the rules of the game of life. How you choose to live within them is up to you. You can spend your life blaming other people for your suffering, your wounds, or your failures, but at the end of the day, you alone are accountable for your soul. No one stands before God to answer for your life but you. No excuse, no parent, no partner, no past incarnation can be offered in your defense. The responsibility for your soul belongs entirely to you.

Please enjoy this session from my live workshop “Seven Graces and Shadow Passions of Your Soul,” from 2011. If you’d like to see the rest of this workshop, you can click here to learn more »

This workshop is not an academic study. It is an encounter with the sacred. Together, we will enter the rich and demanding terrain of mystical teaching through the language of the graces and the shadow passions—teachings that bypass the intellect and move directly into the soul. Mystical knowledge is not meant simply to be understood. It is meant to alter you. It asks something of your imagination, your perception, and ultimately your willingness to undergo inner transformation.

To enter this work requires stretching beyond ordinary ways of seeing. It requires the courage to step outside the limits of the rational mind and allow the mythic imagination to awaken. Throughout this workshop, I will offer a larger perspective on what is happening in the world and within the human soul—one that asks you to hold a deeper vision of reality than the one we are ordinarily trained to inhabit. In many ways, this work is designed to break open familiar patterns of perception so that something more profound can emerge.