FIELD NOTES
Observations drawn from direct experience in practice, teaching, and lived investigation
Observations
Inner Life Field Notes gathers observations drawn from decades of travel, research, training, and direct experience within living traditions. Some entries recount encounters with teachers and practitioners, while others capture smaller moments — a training session, a conversation, or a glimpse into the environments where practice takes shape. These are records of lived experience: how knowledge is transmitted, embodied, and expressed in context — where something real is seen, felt, and recognized.
Recent Field Notes
Not everyone is let in. When it happens, it does not feel like learning a new technique. It feels as if the ground of the entire art shifts beneath your feet.
What endured was the recognition that years of martial arts training had changed something more fundamental than my collection of techniques.
How whole-body organization transforms movement from something we do into something we embody.
Long before I had any language for contemplative practice, nonduality, or witnessing awareness, I occasionally experienced moments that…
Under intelligent pressure, the body shows whether its structure is real—or only performed. Testing it will develop greater root and linked embodiment.
In the beginning, most practice is external. But here is a stage in training where the body begins revealing things the mind alone could never fully understand.
Over nearly five decades, I trained with masters and practitioners across many disciplines. I began noticing that learning itself unfolds in recognizable stages.
Not long ago I invited Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee to take part in an Integral Being conversation. His reply was thoughtful and gracious, but unexpected.
