Following is an email exchange between Stuart and a friend who attended one of Stuart's intensives

Dear Stuart,

Every day, since your intensive, has been this unfolding.

Things are literally just dropping from me, sensations that have perplexed me for years. One thing, for example, which has been kind of cool, is that I sit a fair amount, and I've always been plagued by a tendency to have my awareness sucked into this black hole where I lose consciousness. It feels like it's sleep that is calling or sleepiness. Then about a week after the Intensive, I hit on something that was a tendency of mine to do in the moment. I won't reveal it, because it sounds trivial, but the insight was hooked into my body and some kind of stuck energy on the left side of head, ear, and into my shoulder. The next morning, I tested the insight and for the first time I could see myself being sucked in completely until there was no more sensation and I just watched it happen again and again. Now, it's rare for me to get sucked in without experiencing it.

I was going to stop there. You probably get a lot of emails, but wanted to mention that for the first time I understand what Eckhart Tolle means, when he says that the recognition of one's own insanity is the beginning of healing and the start of transcendence. I have been, for quite a few years, doing a spiritual practice that I felt was adequate to get me to some place of meaning. Yet at the same time, I was indulging in 'wants' and 'desires' and trying to play with that. After your intensive, I felt this strength and I decided that I could abstain from my habits and just be really watchful. And in an instant, one afternoon, I don't know what it was, but there was this freeing up of energy in my left neck, and I got that despite these well-meaning practices that I had been doing, I had to recognize this pattern of wanting for what it was. I had always told myself that those things were just harmless and normal for a 21st century human being. Now I know that I was - perhaps still am - crazy and that this world of wants is a crazy world. But when I go out into the world, interestingly, I love people more or at least feel like there is less separating me from them.

That's enough. I know. I have a tendency to go on and on on.

Thank you so much Stuart, and as far as I can tell, I will see you in November again.

Take Care,

<name withheld>

Response from Stuart:

Dear Friend,

I am very happy and moved by your email. Transmission is a mysterious thing and I think you got it.

Being yourSelf is magnificence itself, let it unfold and enjoy the joy.

I look forward to sitting with you again.

In the love of truth,

Stuart