2021-12-27
59 分钟My practice is to relax into the mystery and to be comfortable with not knowing.
And that practice allows me to give great space to other people to live out their mystery.
And that's, to me, what a mystic is, someone who bows down to the mystery.
So even as a kid, my guess, Elizabeth Lesser was the rebel, the activist, the feminist in the family.
Growing up with three sisters and one very traditional father, she could never understand why the women didn't make more decisions and have more power.
Hers was not a voice that could be stifled even from the earliest age, and she eventually traveled down a path of activism and social justice, graduated from Barnard, became a student of a renowned Sufi mystic, and studied with a wide range of spiritual teachers and her fierce devotion to discover what is real and what is true.
Teamed with a passion for advocacy, an intentional community that led Elizabeth to co found the iconic Omega Institute, this 140 acre communal gathering and learning retreat in Rhinebeck, New York, that has hosted everyone from Eckhart Tolle, Eve Ensler, Maya Angelou, to Payma Chodron, Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Gloria Steinem and thousands of other luminaries from nearly every tradition and walk of life.
And along the way, Elizabeth also found a powerful outlet in writing, eventually penning a series of moving memoirs and social commentary.
Her book, Marrow, shares her experience of profound reconnection and healing between her and her sister, who she donated bone marrow to in a quest to save her life.
Her most recent book, Cassandra speaks, reveals how humanity has outgrown its origin tales and hero myths, and empowers women to trust their instincts, find their voice, and tell new guiding stories.
In today's deep dive best of conversation, we explore the moments, the stories, the insights, the experience that have shaped awakened her call to action, community and creativity, and how a personal crisis in the form of her sister's health crisis led to unforeseen reconnection and reckoning that eventually led to reconciliation and healing.
And right now, we could all use a little more of this.
So excited to share this best of conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So you currently reside and have resided for a while in Woodstock, but from what I know, you start.
Actually, you and I share something in common, which is we both started out.
In Long island many moons ago, where.
I was a port Washington kid.
How about you?
I was a Huntington.