Imaginary Conversations Revisited. In this essential teaching, Richard revisits the theme of his most watched video, Imaginary Conversations. Here he goes into deeper detail about how those conversations are often like stage plays or movies in which none of the characters, including yourself, are real people. He shows why this is dysfunctional and how to free yourself by a simple awareness decision.

Richard describes the insignificance of our ego-self compared with the underlying unconscious patterns that rule the ego’s expression. He describes the internal shift that allows you to step-back so that you can hear what your heart says.

In a sweeping and playful discussion, Richard speaks of the Fundamental Mistake: How at about the age of 8-9 years you begin to predicate your being as an object, a separate self, rather than the true subject, the Aware Self. ME becomes the center of your mandala of being. You fall into a dream, infinitely complex and convincing and very hard to awaken from because nearly everyone else is in their version of the same dream. He speaks of his 45 years of the work of cross translation through precise use of language, metaphors, and symbols and as well through dynamic activities in order to provoke you out of that dream. 

We must live a conscious relationship to our thoughts and feelings in order to open the door to the divine within ourselves and know that magnificence that is ever-sustaining us.

Richard discusses the two fundamental modes of consciousness: Thinking and Feeling. He clarifies how each operates differently, but that deep Feeling literacy must be the foundation upon which Thinking builds in order for there to be Wisdom.