Announcement: Iâm Stepping off the Edge
In two weeks, Iâll be leaving my job. After twenty years of steady effort and quietly pretending I wasn't exhausted, Iâm taking a yearâlong sabbatical. Think of it as a cross between a Buddhist retreat and a metaphysical sideâquest. I'm going with no instruction manual, but plenty of plans.
The year is for writing: the book thatâs been growing in the background, and for something else that has been forming itself just as quietly. A parallel current. A contemplative project called Ramapani.
Ramapani is a practice. A way of seeing. A kind of symbolic, nonâdual, mystic divination that reveals the subtle patterns beneath experience.
Itâs emerging slowly, like a pattern in still water, and Iâm following it with equal parts curiosity and devotion. If you want to wander through it as it unfolds, you can find it at ramapani.com.
To mark this transition, I sat with the question of direction, through the contemplative method Iâve been developing. What surfaced was simple:
Whatever my direction, I must move with intention. Trust the path even when it dissolves into fog. Keep going.
Very Zen. Very âwandering practitioner carrying a quiet purpose.â Very onâbrand for someone stepping into a year of deliberate work, symbolic inquiry, deep meditation, and the kind of insights that tend to arrive at inconvenient times.
So here I go: into the unknown, into the work, into whatever Ramapani wants to become. Thanks for being here while I follow the thread with the confidence of someone who absolutely did not check whether the thread is attached to anything.
As it grows, Ramapani will step beyond my notebook and into the world, offered as a practice others can experience as this new, nonâdual form of divination takes shape.
Thank you to all my followers.
