Dear Beautiful Friends,
Are you ready for a mini-PhD in reality, freedom, and the awakened life—with some laughter thrown in?
Meet my beloved teacher, guide, coach, friend, and playmate of the past three amazing years, Clare Dimond. I’m going to introduce her by going straight to the very last question I ask in my Beauty Q&As, because Clare’s answer is so 🤯 and 🐒 and 😱 and 💫 with a little 🧚♀️ thrown in.
Me: What is a reason to be happy to be alive today?
Clare: There aren’t any.*
Clare is not nihilistic nor misanthropic; she is a teacher and author in the field of non-duality, an understanding that addresses (in a nutshell) the nature of reality and pokes at the truth behind suffering and the separate self. You might call it intimacy with all things, the Oneness of life. Clare’s groups and teachings are conversations that point in the direction of what it means to be alive in our bodies as infinite awareness and unconditional love.
Something like that! I have been learning/working/studying/playing with Clare in this space for three years and still come up short with the right language to describe this field of exploration and awakening.
*Because we don’t need a reason to be happy to be alive, and any reason we come up with is only true for a fleeting moment, then it changes.
Let’s cut to the good part shall we? WATCH THE VIDEO
We slowed down, went past the 20 minutes limit and explored beauty, how it is an unconditional quality of life and can be a portal to awakening, freedom, expansion.
We also talked about:
What is Beauty & Does It Matter?
Positive affirmations
Is the natural world calling us to be a collaborator in life?
Being a human in a troubled world—how the hell do you cope?
Going deep with our fears about global issues
What does the world want from us?
How to rhumba on the playfield of life.
Mystery as beauty, beauty as mystery.
How does a non-dual philosophy teacher & author play?
Distinctions between work & play, clients & friends.
WANT MORE CLARE?
JOIN CLARE’S GROUP & CONVERSATION
Clare’s Real Membership is the coolest sandbox of philosophical, spiritual and human exploration. Doors will be opening soon. Don’t miss out on joining The Conversation of a Lifetime, and meeting the most open, inquisitive, honest, funny community around. This is a global community.
NEXT POP-UP SALON
PLAYFUL WRITING
9 - 10 am PDT
Register here, on Zoom
If you’re a writer experiencing a bit of creator’s fatigue; you flirt with beginning or returning to a writing practice, or you just want to have some creative fun, this one’s for you!
We're going to spend four 1-hr sessions writing from a variety of prompts and exercises that underscore play and fun to get us into a new state of creating. Let’s shred those struggling-writers myths. These salons will also set you up with a playful toolkit of your own. Experience the mystery, the magic, the synchronicity, the exploration, the je-ne-sais-quoi that transpires when we touch pen to paper and are ready for ANYTHING.
This is for paid Beauty Hunter subscribers, *or* anyone interested in / registered for the Creators' Circle that starts in September.
PS. You can subscribe for just one month at $8, with one free trial week, and receive an entire month of playful writing, at the price I almost spend on my morning coffee. Can't wait to write and play with you. XO
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