By Marc Pell

At a young age, around 13 years old, I discovered what it was like to live free of fundamental confusion, self-consciousness and neurotic self-concern. In that I discovered my ‘natural self’, as I thought of it at the time. For an extended period I was living a different life, very different. I had been freed up, unburdened by a lot of unnecessary, conscious and unconscious self-imposed life-denying restrictions. I realised that up until that point in time, I had only been living at something like 10% of who I could be. I had discovered a part of myself that has an inherent integrity and an independent moral sensitivity. I discovered spontaneity of being, clarity of mind and a confidence in Life. The quality of every relationship that I had and the connection with other people was dramatically different. There was a joyous liberated intimacy always available that previously I had no idea existed. Somehow I had been shocked into letting go of my ideas and investments in my own future and I started to discover a sense of purpose in being alive of a kind I had never experienced before. Read the rest of this entry »