A Visonary 

Not all that many days ago, Dr. Eugene Gendlin died. I never met him, but i have been counseled, taught, and mentored by some of his students. He was ninety, so  many of his students are getting along in years now. I won’t try to do Dr. Gendlin justice in a blog post, but I do want to take my hat off the man who left our human race the concept of “Focusing” and his students that promote and practice this human phenomenon.

I doubt seriously if I have any devout Buddhist in my readers, but Dr. Gendlin’s focusing was warmly received by Western Buddhism. His way of being with the body that evidenced the ability of the human body to sense what it need to be with -to have “felt sense”, a way of innate shifting in oneself that is forward processing.

If I have any readers still on the spiritual path of the Christ, I highly recommend you researching “BioSpirituality”. Before you write this off as a “new age” camp idea. Review what a couple Jesuits came up with out of and with Eugene’s Focusing. If my grandchildren and the Christian path have a chance in the next century, it will involve somehow living out of our body’s wisdom. The wisdom of the body is an innate slow method of coming to know or sense compared to our usual methods of  rational “being”. But oh so subtle, and deep with such original resources we just have to sit with it and “see what is”.