happy new year!

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Creativity has a tendency to emerge more readily when we stop trying to control the process of creation.

Let go into the unfolding mystery and play, that is the invitation.

Let go into the unfolding mystery of you're becoming - it's easier said than done though. The prospect is scary.

We are, after all, prediction making beings. We like to have a fairly clear idea of what is coming next - or at least that if we are in an environment where we cannot predict it, that we trust we know it, or ourselves, well enough that we will stay safe.

For my part I've been playing life way too safe. And then running through the lessons and invitations in the REVIVER program myself, I have discovered a deeper vulnerability from which I have been hiding for years.

The process of the REVIVER program and the invitations it contains have a great potential to reveal truths about ourselves that have remained hidden - often that we have avoided, or been inclined to dismiss or suppress.

The program is an invitation to face the truths of ourselves and then to accept, and to love, to forgive, and embrace, all that we find. But more than this, to claim our agency and act on those truths.

To know yourself and to have the courage to be yourself.

One of the results for me is a desire to engage in a far more dynamic way with this material - especially in its creation and delivery.

I have decided to document the process of the creation and also to engage in the lessons as they are created for the YouTube channel.

The thing is I don't have a complete plan. So I don't know if this is going to work, it's an experiment. I'm trusting the unfolding mystery of becoming and trying to play as the best I can at the edge of that breaking wave.

I am exploring and experimenting with this as much as anyone, and in many ways I'm only a few steps ahead in the process myself.

For those of you who have joined you will have already received an email from me explaining some of this. I just want to say again, thank you for your patience. January 8th will still be the first Q&A and, as soon as the first lesson is up and there is a slight buffer I will let you know.

It should've been yesterday but I've run into technical difficulties in the production. In order to automate the captions for the videos I need a different program and the ones I've tested so far or adequate, so that's what we're waiting on. All of the lessons are written, and I've been through the order so many times now, I know it's the best that I can deliver at this time.

I'm curious to see what changes will come, not just in the next four months, but in the years that follow.

The world does not be becoming a simpler place to live in and I don't offer any shortcuts, only that we embrace the unfolding mystery as fully as we can with as much love as we can and as much truth as we can face, and that we transform, not just ourselves, but the world in which we live. Even if only in the tiniest increment.

That would be a good thing.