WORDS OF VEDA

This is the second part of my story. As I was writing I realised - this is a big story. So this part I have deliberately cut a lot out. It is about the search for meaning. The oldest trick in the book - if just this happens, then I will be free. If you haven't read the first part I invite you to. But this piece stands on its own.​​ ​That was 2011. For the next seven years I kept moving toward everything that scared me. Ended up taking form as Backpacking with nothing. Hitchhi

This is part 3 of what has become part of a book that I must write from now 15 years of travel and intense search for truth, transcendence and accepting human life I guess. I have taken the the feedback from the previous parts where I had try to make it digestible, so many details, and I will keep some of the details for the book that will arrive at some point. Its a pleasure for me to think back at these memoires, and to observe my younger self on this quest and the courage

I had just turned 18 when I went to prison. One month into my apprenticeship as a carpenter. Six months it had taken me to get that apprenticeship. Gone. New Year's Eve. Two fights that night. The second one went too far. I beat someone with a glass bottle. It didn't break. So I kept hitting. I ran from that party into the night with seven men behind me. I stopped. Turned around. And standing there in the street I did the crane pose - yes, the one from Karate Kid - and every

There is a place most men spend their entire lives just outside of. Not catastrophe. Not crisis. Something subtler. Something that hums underneath the surface of every real decision. The Edge. The place where the old pattern hasn't released and the new one hasn't solidified yet. Where something in you wants to move forward and something else is doing everything it can to pull you back to comfortable ground. Most men circle this place their whole lives. Move closer. Feel

One of the most visceral movie scenes I know. William Wallace. Strapped to the table, by the enemy. He knows what's coming. And from somewhere deeper than pain — deeper than fear — it tears out of him. FREEEDOM. Every man who has ever watched that scene felt something move in him. Not just emotion. Something essential. A recognition. Because we are all searching for it. Financial freedom. Freedom from the nine to five. Freedom to choose where you live, how you spend your days

Day 10: What Must I Do Before I Die I've decided to do my own course—the practices I offer in my men's programs. So here I am, on a 90-day practice of discovering what I'm actually here to offer the world. It's been many things through the years, all in this search for freedom, this hunt for completion. And now I'm back at the beginning, not knowing what the hell I'm here for. So I go into my cave of practice, spending a lot of time just sitting, open to what is. Sticking wit

The notes piling up, high on learning, high on spiritual teachings.. This is what intrigues me the most.. Trying to ‘figure’ it out.. I...

This following text is something I can take responsablity for today, and perhaps tomorrow.. After that, I don’t know, I might have...

I got to admit, it is not the first time.. I have been sitting with the ‘realization’if you will, that practice (Sadhana) is moment to...

A complete experience of the present moment.. That is what embodiment is.. Its a fully felt, fully tasted, fully savoured moment ...

The ‘Spiritual’ or ‘Self-development’ movement has a growing emphasis on energetic expression, and this is helping men explore and...

I was sitting with my wife the other evening, we were having dinner together, A feeling arouse in me. Wouw, here we are sitting...