“In Touch” Newsletters
I send out newsletters more or less quarterly. Most start with a beautiful banner photo, followed by a short original essay, and then by links to new YouTube videos or podcasts, book reviews, and announcements about upcoming events. There’s a wealth of interesting material here, if you feel like exploring. I’ve catalogued the most interesting elements below.
2025
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Essay: “Our attachment to and identification with our body runs extraordinarily deep — deeper than our attachment to our beliefs and feelings. The sense that “I am this body” is primal, deeply instinctual, and largely unconscious.”
2024
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Essay: “Humanity is facing a complex, interwoven set of crises, that is rooted in our egocentricity. We are challenged to make a collective, developmental step for our own sake as well as the sake of all species.”
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Essay: “What role does nondual wisdom – the direct and deeply visceral recognition of the seamless nature of reality – play in relationship to this overarching (meta) crisis of collapsing human and natural systems?”
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Essay: “In the recent online series hosted by Open Circle entitled “Falling Open”, we explored the question, “How do I veil the recognition of my true nature?”
2023
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Essay: “Adya’s Dharma Transmission Ceremony.” In mid-August, when I visited Adyashanti and Mukti at their home in the mountains above Carson City, Nevada, Adya invited me to receive Dharma transmission
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Essay: “Where is “here”? I invite you to sit with this question without going to your mind for an answer.”
Video: Empty Bell Presentation – “This unusually small gathering turned out to be quite a lively conversation with topics that I don’t ordinarily address.”
2022
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Essay: “Amidst the Shimmering Aspens”; “Pilot episode for series on “Awakening”; “The Sense of Inner Knowing”
Video: “Join me for a short stroll through the High Sierra Aspens!” -
Essay: “Grace Notes”
Videos: “Keynote Address for Self as Presence Online Conference”; “Talk to the Study Society of London (Colet House)”
2021
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Essay: “The Tree of Life”
Podcast interview: “Awareness Explorers”
Book Review: Opening Yourself by Ken Bradford -
Essay “Anchoring in Silence: Ground Zero”; Documentary Film Crew; “Zero Circle” by Rumi; Video recordings from “Finding our Deepest Ground” 2021 Open Circle online event
Podcast interview: “Archeologist of the Heart” by awakin.org
Book reviews: The Direct Way by Adyashanti; A Blade of Grass by Henry Shukman -
Essay: “Telling Ourselves Lies and Truth”; Future of Life podcast
Book Reviews: Zenworld: A Perilous Journey of Adventure and Awakening by Kaisa Puhakka; Falling Open in a World Falling Apart by Amoda Maa
2020
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Essay: “Notice has been Served”
YouTube Videos: “The Ground and the Heart” from Open Circle day-long retreat in May
Video: “Climate Change and Social Justice” with Dr. John Mihalik -
Essay: “Virus as Pointer”
Audiobook version of The Deep Heart link
Book review: Neurodharma by Rick Hanson -
Video: “The Centrality of the Heart in Being Human” from SAND conference 2018
Podcast: “Insights at the Edge” by Tami Simon with John
Video: Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview #2 by Rick Archer
Video: “Bliss and Grit” interview #2 with Brooke Thomas and Vanessa Stone
Podcast: Interview with Michael Stone
Ralston White retreat photo 2020
2019
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Essay: free excerpt from The Deep Heart
Ralston White retreat photo 2019
Book review: The Recognition of Our Own Heart by Joan Ruvinsky -
Essay: “The Inner Pilgrimage”
YouTube videos of Jean Klein from 1987
Book review: The Way of Effortless Mindfulness by Loch Kelly; Love on Every Breath by Lama Palden -
Essay: “The Centrality of the Heart”
Photo from Greenwich, Conn. retreat
2018
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Essay: “Coming Home”
Book reviews: The Blind Spot Effect by Kelly Boys; Awakened Relating by Lynn Marie Lumiere -
Essay: “Random Acts of Gratitude”
Photo: Ralston White Retreat 2018