Eric Dowsett

My journey has been quite varied. Searching for something - the self? Travelling to many countries, living with the locals, getting a better understanding of how and why others live as they do the search was partly externalised. In a way I was looking outside to find out who was inside. But as we never really leave ourselves behind I was only able to observe those around me through the same eyes I had left home with.

But getting out of old patterns, exploring new opportunities did help to break down old, accepted, ways of being allowing a more fundamental ‘me’ to surface.

The part of the journey that was really directed inside, perhaps the hardest part, was aided by my introduction, and exploration of ‘clearing’.

The more I practiced this, the more my perceptions of what was real, and why it was so, changed. Old belief patterns fell away, to be replaced by new ones, which in turn also fell away. This has become such an ingrained aspect of my life now, even the new beliefs that arise are no longer taken as any ultimate truth, just a view of life that passes away.

The ‘Clearing’ has helped me, not only to better understand myself, but to recover parts that were lost in early childhood, but recovering them with awareness, without emotional attachment or pain, to perhaps make myself whole once again.

I don’t believe that we are ever not whole, this is a perception we carry, so that we have a goal, but the ‘clearing’ has shown me there is no goal, we are already there.

Did I have to travel extensively to find this out? Did I need to discover ‘clearing’ to help me along the way? Who knows, but life is a journey, perhaps leading nowhere, and I still tread the path.