y friend and I are into being badasses. Not the type where you make everyone know it, but the true badass of striving for your ultimate potential, realizing God through discovering a divine capacity within your own self. Perhaps even fulfilling the purpose of your life, or at least one of them. Unfortunately, though our hearts are in the right place, my friend and I don't always know what we're doing.

So we're trying. My friend, through the combination of a powerful hallucinogenic experience and a number of other factors in his life, is contemplating whether he can start to just do the work that comes to him naturally, instead of constantly trying to wrangle any opportunity into a safety net for the future. Relaxing completely into life despite fear of financial and other instability. The anti-go-getter. For him this is not just a work-related shift but one that would profoundly affect his whole life, since he's at a point where he can pretty much live anywhere and do anything. It's a risk that could go horribly wrong or lead to becoming a badass on an entirely new level.

I have a similar change in the works -- not specifically with business, though that's a part of it. No part of my life seems to be untouched by it lately, though I can't articulate it as a whole very well. And since it hasn't happened yet, I've been stewing in the tension and confusion that often precedes it. But I can feel the rumbling on the tracks.

What's most important for me in these kinds of transitions is a spacious environment - physically, emotionally, and spiritually. So it's going to be challenging heading off to Suluk for ten days and keeping some room open. Some room not to squish the ego in a misguided parental scolding towards humility, but to breathe on it and let it grow so large and so true that one little body couldn't possibly contain it. No matter how badass they are.