Acts of Surrender 5: Beyond Surrender

This installment of Acts of Surrender, my memoir-in-progress, is another reminder for me of how eloquently the past can offer perspective on the present, if we choose to open to the clear inner vision that's always available.

It begins in Mount Shasta in September 1997, an experience that would mark the end of my 90 days of higher-directed wandering and the beginning of a new life and identity in the U.S. It ends today, as I reflect on what's next for me...in a similar moment of "void and...