(Part 3 of 3) The above quote has been stated and re-stated throughout human history. Whenever we hear it we are shocked because in our ordinary perceptions of things, it makes no sense. After all, isn’t it the wisdom of experience that causes us to feel that our fears and mistrust are keeping us safe?

(Part 2 of 3) “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain.

(Part 1 of 3) Like those who tread on the tiger’s tail in the I Ching, we have to learn that the glow of the tiger’s eyes is not fearful, judgmental, harsh (or dangerous?). In fact the glow of the tiger’s eyes (tyger, tyger burning bright) are the markers on our path.

I have been working as a bodyworker since 1986 and I have given thousands of sessions and taught hundreds of classes since then. I was not originally taught how to work on clients' faces. After receiving a session of esthetic massage from a Japanese practitioner in Hawaii, I started to question why I was not touching the face.

In 1979 I, and my family, departed Palo Alto and after some months of travel and exploration we settled on Orcas Island. What had led to this move came as a result of many messages, which I heard inside. The messages started when I took a ten-day solo-backpacking trip in the High Sierras in California. I had fasted before the trip and was determined to continue the fasting until I became aware of my inner guidance.