Sisyphus was training.
Same boulder. Same hill. Change who's telling the story and the man changes. On the first narrator, and the father-in-law holding up the sky.
I'm R. James. I write, speak and coach on the conversation underneath all of it - the place where the mystics and psychology are describing the same thing. More about me
The Concordance
Same experience. Two vocabularies.
A living table from my research. Each row is something people report on the inside - what the traditions called it, what the research calls it, and who found it. Not an argument. A lookup.
The Words That You Forgot
My signature talk, on the two words underneath all of it. The room decides how the conversation starts.
I'm Ryan J. Mathis, LICSW. I write as R. James. I came up in the clinic - ten years of crisis teams, inpatient psych, outpatient and private practice - and I live on the energy side now. My work translates between the two, in both directions.
Everybody's right. Nobody's wrong.