Jeff Brown

I am deeply sorry about those members of your community who left us by their own hand, because it was too difficult to remain here, under inhumane conditions. I am particularly saddened by those who left us before revealing and fully exploring their innate sexual orientation. Condemnation and absence of societal support forced many to bury and hide their desires, leaving them alone to live tormented and isolated lives.

If the difficult parent is not available or open to a healing process, then work on the relationship nonetheless. We don’t need a willing counterpart to work through the effects of a connection. If you can afford it, work with a therapist on the many ways that the relationship has landed within you. Clear emotional debris.

I got my answer around the next corner. As I turned into the Market, I saw my homeless mystic- Dude- sitting against his pushcart in front of the taco place. He was sipping a beer and taking some sun. I put $20.00 in his bowl and sat down beside him.

In the words of systems theorist Kathia Laszlo “Everything feminine has been suppressed in patriarchy for so many centuries. Earth based spirituality, natural healing and childbirth, and anything that empowers women has been eliminated by men in power and presented as evil. The same is true for relationship as spiritual path. That would have made men and women equal partners, and it would have given too much power to the feminine if it recognized the uncontrollable, volatile, chaotic nature of emotional connection as valid, natural, healthy and helpful.”

In this higher consciousness love story, Soulshaping author Jeff Brown shares the poignant journey of Lowen and Sarah, two soulmates who have found their way to one another yet again. This intimate and revealing account is told through Lowen’s eyes, as he experiences the heights and depths that come with meeting his beloved. In this remarkably engaging story, we walk beside the lovers as they touch the divine and then struggle to ground their love in daily life.

Through the eyes of essence, I saw gender for what it is: a way station on the karmic quest for wholeness. Perhaps this is what it means to be transgender, in the ultimate sense? You identify with gender until you are ready to transcend it. When you enter great love’s door, you enter an entirely different dimension. The ultimate form is polyphrenic, an inclusive embracing of all archetypes and energies. The perfectly blended juice of divinity. Drink from love and see as God sees.

I awoke the next morning with a new inquiry burning inside: Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural…

Enlightenment isn’t a head trip- it’s a heart trip. Gusts of God blowing through the portal of the heart. We may want to enlighten through the safety of the mind, but the God-self lives in vulnerable places. As we dunked our hearts in the rivers of essence, everything became God. And God became everything. Holy moley!

My father passed away this summer. It had been some time since we had talked…too long perhaps…but it always feels like that after someone dies. You yearn for a little more time with them- to clear the debris, to soften the edges, to find the love.

This week, I invite you to honor the benevolent Warrior that lives inside you. Acknowledge the ways she has helped you to survive and reach this stage of your journey. Give breath to her desire to bring you home. Souldier on…

Sleepless in Toronto, I have surrendered to the wave for two weeks, alternating between packing up the house and unpacking my emotional baggage.

Although the ultimate romance is with our own soul, it is our experiences together that give birth to the essential lessons.

Suddenly the shame game looks ridiculous. Something more infinite is infiltrating my lens. Is that you, too?

Be careful, what you project on your guru blinds you from the truth… which is? he cannot tell us the truth

Moving forward often demands that we live lost, knowingly surrendering our attachment to who we think we are, voluntarily stumbling around in the dark with little to guide us. Growing is all about leaps into the seeming unknown.

I apologize for abusing you with toxic food, over-eating, workaholism. I wanted you drained and deadened so that I couldn’t feel you. If I enlivened you, I felt my emotions more strongly and my pain emerged. If I numbed you, my memories remained buried. Yet another self-distraction technique. I am sorry for those acts of misplaced aggression. I couldn’t hold you safe because I had never been held safe. I had to first forge self-love in the fires of life.

Lately, I have been having conversations with people who have read Soulshaping. The theme that emerges most often in these talks is that of shame. Something about the depth of self-admission in the book seems to trigger it. Some celebrate that self-revealing. Some are uncomfortable with it. Some are reminded of their own shame and want to head for the hills.

Throughout my tumultuous early life, I found comfort in blissful and perfectionist imaginings. In an effort to escape the chaos of my family environment, I focused my gaze on visions of a self-actualized reality, one where the world I inhabited would be in a state of perfect order. This vision served me for many years, until I made the mistake of projecting it onto my spiritual life, manifest as a misguided quest for enlightenment. I soon learned.

Soul Shaper and author Jeff Brown asks, What is living inside of you that needs to be expressed and how can you move that to see a better world?

What does “true-path” mean to you? Are you embodying your truths? Do you hear a nagging voice calling you in another direction, or do you have peace with
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Jeff Brown reflects on how our inner growth is like a truth serum that reframes and clarifies our lens to the outside world…