Go(o)d Trials
Part I How many books that consider the topic of healing have reached my eyes? Those searching eyes that are at times wholesomely curious, at times bleakly desperate? Easily the most beloved works have been those of poet and teacher about healing, death, and dying: Stephen Levine. That his words would consistently inspire in me a deeper love and tenderness for my body itself only just touches on the undeniable feeling that his words themselves directly transmit healing. With as much ease as he wrote about the unconscious and about Buddhist meditation, just so would he write of God—about whom he remarked he meant nothing more suggestive than the very presence of holiness and the sacred he personally experienced. None were more surprised than me to discover, as time unfolded, that God-talk also carried a very real meaning for me, and that “praying to God” effected an inner movement that was as pleasant as it was palpable. Over the months and now years, gradually my vernacular grew with G...
