Susan Belchamber

"I loved Ken Wilber's thinking. I did my dissertation on him. I wound up really feeling like transpersonal psychology was real, and what was possible just went, my mind just really expanded. We have such a narrow vision of ourselves, and I think I certainly did, but to expand into a sense of our interconnection, our lack of separation, our transpersonal capacities, and how much we can really impact each other, how much we impact the world around us, I think we're only beginning to figure out how strongly true this is."

"When I'm in the flow, people begin to feel like they have more space to expand into the fullness. They have interconnections they didn't think they had. Synchronicities happen all the time, and it's so much fun. We just open to a heart space that is healing, beautiful. It's what I think most of us really want in relationship, and a sense of community arises. I love this process. I love talking about each other's passion. I love supporting each other's passion. I think it helps each of us in our own passion and finding what's right for us when we listen to others and talk about how their passion comes alive in them."

"The passion shows up in interesting ways, when it feels a need that you didn't even know you had, and all of a sudden you go, ah, you get lost in it. You lose track of time, you lose track of yourself, and just this joyfulness arises, an easy ease of focus. You wind up just doing research, and it's not hard, it's not like it's for a project for school. You just notice how your body feels, how relaxed, how in tune, how alive you feel. I think these are all just clues, and don't judge yourself too harshly. Just see what's arising, and it doesn't have to be hot, it can just be warm. Just follow the warmth."

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"I believe in synchronicity, so this is a story of synchronicity. I was living in England, in Wimbledon, and I was just starting my psychotherapeutic journey. I was late taking the tube up to Regent College. I showed up in my class, and everybody else had chosen the books to present. There were about 30 of us, and I got a book nobody else wanted to touch, which was Ken Wilber's Spectrum of Consciousness, and that changed my life. I loved this book. I loved Ken Wilber's thinking. I did my dissertation on him. I wound up really feeling like transpersonal psychology was real, and what was possible just went, my mind just really expanded. I got to tell him this story in person once, and it was just so fun that this found me. It was something that found me versus me finding it."