In
unraveling the essential thread of my life story I can think of no
better way to translate it than through one of my favorite tales
of the Ten Zen Bulls. I will start each turning point with the
title that serves as the entryway into each of the Zen Bulls.
- Beginning the Search: The first
time I sat and watched The Kung - Fu show on TV. I was hooked.
34 years later I still practice Internal Martial Arts and
Meditation.
- Discovering the Footprints:
Reading probably the best book on Kaballah I’ve ever read by
Meher Baba entitled Seed. It took me into a new world.
- Perceiving the Bull: Having a
Satori while discussing Jungian Psychological Types with a
good friend that completely transformed the view I had of the
world prior to that point.
- Catching the Bull: The first
Osho Meditation I ever did (called the Mandala Meditation)
stopped me dead in my tracks, it wasn’t an experience, it
was literally, a non - experience.
- Leading the Bull: The first time
I sat with Osho in Lao Tzu Auditorium during a discourse on
Bodhidharma’s White Lotus Sutra, I entered into a state I
call the innerconnectedness of everything after which I
realized I really didn’t know anything about anything
whatsoever and decided to get really serious about the
spiritual path I was on.
- Riding the Bull: Here I was
deeply involved in experiments with the Golden Dawn System of
Magic as well as simultaneously practicing exercises
associated with the Tibetan book of the Living and Dying. It
was here that I met my own inner demon and after 12 hours of
excruciating raw terror dissolved it in the center of my heart
in a field of green light. The key here is unconditional love.
Beyond this point only white magicians can go.
- Transcending the Bull: In the 3
week long training I did in Spoleto, (Umbria) Italy on NLP
Hypnosis with Ragini Elizabeth Michaels we learned a technique
called Timeline Re-Imprinting where you learn to go into
various what are called meta - positions in order to view the
events of your life from some very unusual perspectives the
result of which can completely change the level of ability you
have to perceive in the first place. Radical!!!
- Transcending Both the Self and
the Bull: Try falling into a black hole in the very deepest
core of who you are and at the same time emerging out of a
white hole and knowing for the first time without a single
doubt whatsoever who you are. It is the clearest thing you
could possibly ever experience (of course that can also
evolve) and at the same time the deepest mystery you will ever
be bewildered by.
- Reaching the Source: Mix all of
Heaven with all of Hell both in their full blown intensity 24
hours a day 7 days a week for what seems like forever while at
the same time not minding in the least bit that that is the
way it is with the totality.
- In the World: We’ve been here
- all along - after all. We just thought we were somewhere
else. Reality is reality. Illusion is illusion. What a
concept. What to do. Love (in awareness).
Personal Information:
I was born James D. Gordon August
9,1958 at 5:15 p.m. in Lincoln, Nebraska U.S.A. My father was a
computer scientist and mother stayed at home to raise the
kids. At the age of two my family moved to California and this is
pretty much where I spent the rest of my time growing up. I have
lived in various places throughout the world including India,
Italy, France, Switzerland, and Maui, Hawaii. I now live with my
wife and life partner Amira and our two dogs Harlee and Cozmo in
Gilbert, Arizona. My passions are Human Design, Voyaging (both
physically and spiritually), Tai-Chi, learning anything new and
unusual especially if it is deep and sophisticated, and spending
quality time with my wife.
I received my first Human Design
reading from Chetan Parkyn in 1996 in Maui, Hawaii. About 5 years
ago (2002) I started studying the human design system. In 2004 I
began to take those studies seriously and for the last two years
have been studying and researching the principles, theories, and
practices of Human Design extensively. I have been given guidance,
and been supported and encouraged by two well known teachers in
the field of Human Design: Chetan Parkyn (Earthstar Consulting)
and Eleanor Haspel-Portner (Unified Life
Sciences/Multi-Dimensional Human Design). I have also been
practicing Taoist movement arts and meditation practices since
1973 and have owned and managed two Martial Arts schools and was
the Director of a Martial Arts School in a Meditation resort in
India. I have also been giving sessions in NLP Hypnosis Since May
of 1991.
In Human Design my teachers are
Chetan Parkyn (Earthstar Consulting) and Elizabeth Haspel–Portner
(Unified Life Sciences), both of whom studied with Ra Uru Hu
the creator of the Human Design System. In NLP Hypnosis my teacher
was Ragini Elizabeth Micheals (creator of Facticity Trainings and
a book by the same name) who learned from R. Bandler and J.
Grinder the originators of NLP Hypnosis, as well as Milton
Erickson (a pioneer in the field of Modern Clinical Hypnosis).
Reiki Seichim I learned from my beloved wife Amira who is a Master
Teacher of Reiki Seichim in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. In martial arts
my teachers include Brian Adams (author of Deadly Karate Blows),
Russel Maynard (author of Tanto: The Knife of Self-Defense),
Bill Helm (director of the Taoist Sanctuary in San Diego, CA) and
George Xu (a well known International Martial Arts Master from
China who teaches all over the world and is based in San
Francisco, California, USA).
