Welcome to this Week's Edition of Red Things on Tuesday

Hello, Friend!

If you're new to the Tam Integration mailing list, Red Things on Tuesday is a glimpse into our journey. We're continually growing and exploring, just like you. This collection of books, music, teachings, psychedelic ephemera, and the like that we think is meaningful and have been enjoying. It gets sent out on most Tuesdays. The name is based on something a Vedic astrologer told Daniel (me!) once, making this a sadhana . We appreciate you participating in it.

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Intuition Baby Steps

Joseph Campbell famously said, "Follow your bliss!" It's what so many of us have been trying to do. Our integration activities are, in a lot of ways, a support system for our bliss following. We unravel fears, confusions, and limited notions about the world so that we can more easily track this bliss. We work to find the path to it and to walk it. Following this path seems to require a certain amount of intuition. It's not laid out with signs put up by the Department of Transportation. There is even a limit to what a guide or a therapist can do to point you in the right direction in any detailed or sustained way. As the Grateful Dead tells us, "That path is for your steps alone." We all have to find our own way, and that finding requires intuition.

Sometimes, folks right out of a journey want to take big leaps. They've been intuitively guided toward something big and audacious. Perhaps it's down a path that requires skills and traits that they haven't really developed yet, or a path that is more risky than we might ordinarily want to go down.

My coaching clients will ask me, "How do I know what to do? How do I tell the difference between pure intuition and a repressed desire or neurosis?"

The simple answer, of course, is, "How should I know?!" This is a highly personal matter. Your intuition is as intimate to you as your guardian angel. Your own fairy godmother. I have enough trouble decoding what mine is saying to me. I can't know what yours is saying to you!

What I can suggest is to start small. Develop a relationship with your intuition. Before you take a leap of faith that requires you to quit your job or move to another country, maybe let it help you pick out some clothes. Take it to the grocery store and allow shopping to become a faith-based activity. I once did this, and I ended up in front of the candy aisle. Addiction tried to sneak in there, and now I have a better sense of how that feels different than my inner wisdom. Better candy than something else, right? It's better to walk out the door in a silly outfit than to walk out on a job you really need.

Our experience can kick up a lot of dust, and sometimes, seeing dust we've been ignoring can feel like clarity. we might take action before giving it a chance to clear. Most of the time, patience is key. Rarely is it urgent. Taking the time to be with what arises and falls gives us an amazing perspective. Giving yourself a chance to navigate slowly through your life is grace.

Red is Sunset

Someone shared this with me because I'm the "Red Things on Tuesday" Guy. I'm surprised that nobody has sent me this before. Alfred Molina plays the artist Rothko and has an impassioned, intense discussion with Jonathan Goff about what "Red" is.

Red means something different to each of us, and yet we also have a shared experience of red. It's a powerful expression of how art invites us into transpersonal spaces.

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The Seer Within

If you can tell me who is the person sampled, I'd appreciate it.

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