Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
through her website, www.pureseeing.com , as well as her blog.
Thanks for joining us today, Maren, appreciate it.
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: Thank you very much, dear Trip, and
dear John, I really appreciate being on your show. I love your
show, and I love what it offers, and many times the silence in
between the words is just so, so palpable, and it's very strong, it's
very powerful, in the sense there's only one power and it's no
power, and it's very spacious and clear. And I'm honored to be on
here. Thank you.
TRIP: Thank you, how nice. How are you feeling these days, you
went through a health crisis back in November, did you not?
MAREN SPRINGSTEEN: I did, and I'm actually still going
through it. I just had two surgeries in the last few weeks, and I'm
awaiting a third one. And it's not been easy in human terms at all.
I have a chronic condition since a number of years where all
swallowing and sleeping stopped in winter of 2007, and I wasn't
sure at first whether it was ALS or Parkinson's, and in the end it
was diagnosed as a rare genetic defect, and I nearly passed, but
I'm very, very grateful for having survived, and just dealing with
the everyday challenges. But I needed a feeding tube to put water
in since two years, and I needed a replacement surgery now.
Daily life has become quite a challenge, let's say, because every day
about two hours after putting hydration in I cannot speak, because
otherwise I aspirate, so I can't open the door, or take telephone
calls, or just go about normal business. I just mention this very
briefly, because I find that there is quite a considerable glass
ceiling around illness in spiritual circles, like, you must have
brought it upon by your own thoughts, or well meaning people
who've read one book like The Secret, you must have manifested
this or whatever, and it's just not helpful. Some of the most
enlightened people I've met, and I'm certainly not one of them, but
I'm a totally normal person, but some of the most really, really
awake people I've met, spirits, have dealt with the dark night of
their souls themselves, or with illness or something like that. I've
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