The Boston Marathon, bombs exploding, life not making any sense. These are times when It is hard to have any sense of self, of being human, that makes any sense.

Yet these moments of horror, confusion, dismay and ungroundedness are exactly the moments when we must have a strong, centered, and calm inner experience of selfhood.

The year after 9/11, I spent hours and hours in conversation with my friend Bethene LeMahieu, building a picture of the individual that would allow each one of us to contribute to "a new ordinary life." The six hour audiobook we produced, "GROUND ZERO AND THE HUMAN SOUL" THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW ORDINARY LIFE," presented imaginations of the fourfold, threefold, and twofold experiences of being human and argued that without this inner sense of self there would never be a 9/12, that we would remain stuck between the naivete of 9/10 and the horror of 9/11. You can download the audiobook here. Listen to it. It is both comforting and challenging.

THE BASICS OF I course begins on Thursday. The Boston Marathon Madness is a call to all of us to pay attention, to learn the language, to build the imagination of the I that can transform the future.

Last Friday morning at the conference "Contemplative Practices in a Technological World," I heard Rich Ferandez, the individual in charge of people development at Google, speak about his experience as a surfer during his undergraduate days at UC San Diego. There is not a bachelors degree offered that provides the wisdom that his surfing gave him. He said "You can't change the wave, but you can change how you surf it."

THE BASICS OF I will give you the inner I-skills to surf all waves from the nightmare waves of the Boston Marathon to the gentle waves of falling in love or taking a walk with your grandchild.

Please register now. Just click here.

So pray from your core, calm, centered I for all those harmed in body, soul, or spirit by the Boston Marathon terror. It is only the I that can truly bring about the slow, steady, restoring gesture of love that is so needed right now and over the coming years.

Today is also the anniversary of the mass shooting at Virginia Tech seven years ago. The conference I attended a few days ago was on the Va Tech campus. I spoke with many members of the faculty and staff who were there and still struggling with the unresolved feelings of that nightmare. We need to know ourselves, the Basics of I, so that we can make the inner distinctions that allow us to hold our I-center when the rest of us is falling apart.

PS: This course is inspired by Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner's worldview based on the wisdom of human consciousness. I integrate Steiner's fundamental insights with the reality of 21st Century daily living. I will be sharing some very warm, creative, powerful, juicy and useful perspectives and applications for being human and becoming I. It is Steiner's wisdom riding the new waves of our times and our personal lives.

Imagine Self Spring Courses.

Here is a list of the other courses I plan to offer over the next couple of months. They all live in the mood of Spring and new life, and the challenges of intimacy and social harmony. I do hope you will participate in one or more. My new store is under construction and close to being launched - then you will get all the details for these upcoming I-opening courses.

So just a heads-up and a bit of a tease to your evolving self.

Lifting the Veils
Birth to Age Seven
an Inner Life course
8-90 minute webinars $297-$177 (you name your price)
Noon-1:30PM Eastern
Tuesdays, June 13, 20, 27, July 11, 18, 25, Aug 1, 8

 An integrated, coherent picture of the autobiographical self can provide a profound ground for all you want to become and manifest in your future. It just makes sense.

Imagining Intimacy
an Inner Year Becoming I course
6 - 90 minute webinars $247-$127(you name your price)also available for self-study.
Tuesdays May 21,28, June 4, 11, 18, 25
Noon-1:30 Eastern

This looks at our relationships that begin in romance and lead to marriage or a shared daily living. It makes so much sense of the struggles of intimacy.

The Marvelous, Maddening and Meaningful Four Temperaments
understand the mysteries behind our relationships, and reactions and style of being in the world.
an Inner Year Being Human course
4-60 minute webinars $127 - $67
also available for self-study
Thursdays, June 20, 27,July 11, 18

1-2 PM Eastern
Slipping into summer, you will find your social capacities and your basic interest in others having a truly powerful template for understanding personality. Lots of fun!