One of the great misunderstandings about spiritual growth is the belief that transformation happens because we force it.

An excerpt from the recent Summer Solstice ceremony. As the group gathered the morning after the Solstice, an unexpected teaching emerged. It did not arise from a meditation, a transmission, or a profound visionary experience. It emerged from something extraordinarily ordinary: waiting.

I was shown a vision of something that occurred long before human history, in dimensions far beyond our ordinary perception. It appeared as a tremendous rupture in the fabric of creation—a crack accompanied by a sound so vast and penetrating that it felt like the loudest scream imaginable.