How Can You Sleep When Your Beds Are Burning?

Everything is calling to us.

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Though thou loved her as thyself /As a self of purer clay /Though her parting dims the day /
Stealing grace from all alive /Heartily know /When half-gods go /The gods arrive.

— Emerson, Give All to Love

It’s been a week. Or a year. Or forever.

I’m sharing the draft of something I wrote some time ago that came out of my exploration and practice of Yoga Nidra, which means the yoga of sleep, or unity. Essentially, Yoga Nidra is a guided practice that takes you beyond waking, dreaming, or sleep to a state of deep rest and into the superconscious otherwise known in some Hindu traditions as turiya or the fourth state.

I started the practice in 2019 and found it miraculous. It opened the door to the experience - not the concept - of nonduality. It helped me go beyond this or that, one or the other. For example, I experienced a crisis in a relationship and felt stuck in a dilemma that limited me to two options: leaving or staying. Instead, I recognize…