Meeting
One of the things I love is unexpectedly meeting someone somewhere with whom I feel a deep connection. Someone in whom I suddenly experience wide openness, someone who speaks a language I also understand, someone who warms my heart. Someone whose appearance might not suggest this intimate connection…. Unexpectedly meeting someone who immediately gets to […]
I Am Not Catherine
Published in Feb 2016 by InZicht in Dutch from the upcoming book 'The Life and Vision of Catherine Harding' by Karin Visser More and more I realize that I am not at all Catherine, the little Catherine. I am the eternal universal consciousness, experiencing life in the form of Catherine, just as you are the […]
Breakfast In Salisbury
One morning, at the breakfast table of the yearly Headless Gathering in Salisbury, I was chatting and joking along with some friends. Suddenly, by a flash of enlightening awareness, I realized we were Dutch, German, English and Israeli. As a people we had been at war with each other some 70 years ago. There was […]
No Medal – poetry
NO MEDAL Spirituality pins No medal To your chest. It is a raptor Tracking you Until you turn To be its prey. Raw and alive He chews you Swallowing you Bit by bit. His dark belly Extracts your essence And transmutes that In his guts. When he is done He leaves behind A little heap […]