So, what do I mean by presencing the depths?
Well, if we have beauty in life that can be appreciated and ugliness in life that can be lamented, what I’m referring to when I refer to the ‘depths’ is that which is beyond both.
The depths are untouched by right and wrong, by good and bad or beauty and ugliness.
You could say that the depths are the background of everything, the awareness, the no-thing-ness, the silence, the stillness, the everything, the vastness.
But, you could also just say that the depths are that deeper part of ourselves that we all know from certain moments in our lives.
Everyone’s lives are touched by the depths from time-to-time.
I would say that you would struggle to find a human being on this planet that wouldn’t have some experience of some kind of at least momentary transcendence or beauty or wonder or awe.
These places are what I am calling the depths.
Now, to presence the depths isn’t such far off mystical state of enlightenment that takes decades to cultivate within you.
To presence the depths just means to be aware of operating from the deepest place within yourself that you are capable from operating from in any given moment.
This will differ vastly between people.
Depending on your inner capacity, the work you’ve done, your ability to meditate and be present, your openness and vulnerability, your access to compassion and kindness, what the depths taste and feel like to you will vary wildly.
But you know what I’m talking about when I use the term.
Deep down you do. 😉
So, now that the term makes sense, why have I decided to use this term as the title for my blog?
Well, essentially, presencing the depths is my personal practice.
I have many practices, but this is one of them.
I try to live my life being present to that deeper place inside myself for as large a proportion of the day as I can.
Sometimes I fail.
Well, actually, mostly I fail.
This is not an easy thing to do, especially when you’re running two businesses and raising a young song.
But, I keep coming back to it because it’s meaningful to me and seems to give my life a profound purpose.
I’m not really sure why I’m even writing this blog. I just randomly decided to start it one night after being inspired by a friend of mine. But I think one of the reasons is that the process of writing, the process of expressing myself, forces me to become clear about my thinking on this subject. The need to express clearly where I stand, necessitates that I do that soul searching required to think through, what do I actually think and feel about consciousness and awareness and love and heart and all these esoteric topics that I find myself drawn back to again and again? And, in doing so, it provides me with a degree of clarity. So, that’s one reason. Perhaps more will emerge as I continue writing. But, if you’re interested in these same subjects that I am, perhaps you will get something out of it too for your own journey. At least, it is my hope that you will and that my sharing of my own experience has some value to you.