Essays

NONDUAL THOUGHTS

These writings explore the Unitive Way as a living path—a way of becoming more fully ourselves while contributing to the healing and transformation of the world. Here you’ll find reflections on human nature, wholeness, and the deeper forces that shape our lives. Each essay invites you to consider new ways of living with integrity, presence, and love—from the Center, in all directions.

WRITINGS ON THE UNITIVE WAY

Introduction to the Unitive Way

• Explains the foundational symbol of the Centered Cross, representing wholeness, balance, and integration at the heart of the spiritual journey.
• Presents the Unitive Way as a path of conscious living that embraces both personal transformation and collective healing.
• Lays the groundwork for a trans-religious philosophy rooted in presence, love, and the realization of unity through diversity.

The Cross of Gender and Eros (CGE)

• Maps gender and sexuality onto the four directions of the Centered Cross—masculinity, femininity, eros, and agape—as dynamic energies and archetypes.
• Honors diverse identities, including bisexuality, androgyny, and transgender experience, as sacred expressions of integration and fluidity.
• Invites readers to view erotic and relational life as a spiritual journey, cultivating awareness, compassion, and embodied wholeness.

The 16 Stations of the Unitive Way: Archetypes of Spiritual Integration and Development

• The Centered Cross maps human development across four directions—Eros, Agape, Masculine, and Feminine—each expressed through four stations: Body, Mind, Soul, and Spirit, resulting in 16 archetypal modes of mature spiritual integration.
• Each station represents a healthy archetype (e.g., the Lover, the Healer, the Warrior, Sovereign, etc.) and its distorted shadow (e.g., the Addict, the Wounded Rescuer, the Bully, the Tyrant, etc.), offering a path for personal growth through practice, presence, and balance.
• The Unitive Way invites practitioners to embody all sixteen stations as aspects of wholeness, integrating passion, love, clarity, and mystery across all levels of being.