Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Robin over at OneTantra.com has started an ongoing interview with me that she calls, “Come Sit on My Bed”.
I figured it worth sharing here.
Robin:
Boy, I am about to totally get ALL Dirty Oprah on your ass…
Come Sit, Come Sit!!!
OK, First, I have just gotta know…You are clearly a deliberate guy…how did the development of your lifeplan “happen”? When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up, and how old were you when you decided, “I’m going to teach fucking…but the really good kind…” How did it all come about?
Destin:
Dirty Oprah on my ass…
I’m not sure if that is hot or disturbing.
These are big questions.
I remember when I was about 7 years old, I wanted to be a Paleontologist when I grew up.
Somehow something else panned out. What happened?
Can you remember being a small child? You start out having this belief that the world is exactly as it should be, and your particular role is simply to grow and learn how to be in it. This is often referred to as the innocence of children.
Somewhere along the line, we all have a “fall from grace.” It might happen in a sudden instance or it might happen over a period of time. But one way or another, we come to realize that hmmm… something’s not quite right here.
The first thing that I can really remember having that experience with was sex. People just seemed so weird about it. It was all over billboards, the papers, television, the movies, and yet, we weren’t supposed to talk about it.
I think that really grasping the unhealthiness of that contradiction at such a young age is what ultimately led me onto this path.
But in truth, I don’t feel like I chose this path, so much as I was called. I’ve experienced far too much in my life and in this path that goes far beyond rational explanations, that I have full faith that this path that I have been blessed with is a cooperation between me and Source.
Next question!
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