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Dear Readers;

Whether you are individual seekers looking for truth, individuals who have truths to share, or are someone for whom both of these are true,  I hope this will become wonderful collection of spiritual diversity.  Over the past weeks, I have presented The Coyoté Oak:  Burgeoning Wisdom.  I am Carlisle Bergquist the book’s author, and with your indulgence, I would like to introduce myself to you.

I am a transpersonal psychologist in Kansas - a little unusual for these parts - who has boomeranged back and forth between the prairie and the Pacific coast most of my adult life.  Two constants have driven this circular trajectory:  creativity, and a hunger to know Spirit.  From writing the first songs at age four, creativity led me onto the stage and eventually into the music business in LA where I learned the power of stories mined from an open heart.  My desire to know Spirit revealed the subtlety of Creation, the formed and the formless, the interdependence of all things whether Earth or animal, plant or person.  That drew me into science, esoteric mysteries, spirituality, graduate studies and service.

Along this zigzagged life path, I have performed for thousands and cried alone, sat in the company of murders and stood in the presence of miracles.  I have won the hearts of more than I know and lost the love of too many I cared about.  I live an ordinary life that has led to remarkable encounters.  Though my book is not an autobiography, crisscrossing the realms of body, mind, and Spirit as I have, I picked up the experiences to weave this story.

The Coyoté Oak:  Burgeoning Wisdom is a fictional tale of transformation filled with intrigue, insight and majesty but it is more than that.  The allegorical story is a companion to both seeker and sage as we change and evolve.  The Coyoté Oak:  Burgeoning Wisdom is a love story - a love story for Creation and the interconnectedness of all life.  The story is a narrative that changes perception of the world and ultimately will change your life.

Visionary creativity is a kind of magic that comes from beyond the individual in service to the whole.  The Coyoté Oak is that kind of story; it found me and demanded me to write it.  Some might call that channeling, I call it just being willing to listen.

I invite you to join me on this blog and in the pages of The Coyoté Oak:  Burgeoning Wisdom and we’ll share the experience together.

Sincerely,

Carlisle Bergquist