Meditation

[close] Do you write? Do you write to improve your life? To understand what's going on? What is a Black Swan? A Black Swan is an Outlier, something completely rare in the world. Centuries ago, it was thought only white swans existed. It was not until explorers made to to Australia that they discovered there are black swans. A black swan is someone who uses their intelligence, their creativity and their ability to write to delve deeper into the things in life that hold meaning for them personally. >>>Even when the challenges have been outrageous. We meet every week. Write with us! “I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.” ― Flannery O'Connor In composition studies, they call this "Metacognitive Learning," which means using reflection to learn from your own experience. We meet on Zoom & in Person in Jacksonville, Oregon for weekly writing sessions, called Shut Up & Write.

[close] This group is for anyone who is Death Positive, death doulas, end-of-life midwives, hospice workers/volunteers, and anyone who has ever or will ever experience a death (yes, that means YOU!). We encourage open, honest discussion about the one thing that we are all guaranteed in this life, Death. My hope is that we can dull the fears, and return the sacredness of death to our universal consciousness, to allow everyone to live their unique life to its fullest until their last exhale. "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born The potential people who could have been here in my place But who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA So massively exceeds the set of actual people In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state From which the vast majority have never stirred?" -Richard Dawkins

[close] Books studied and recommended by Harmony of the Way meditation school

[close] A place to store books for future reads for our book club