Dancing In The Unknown: Real stories of the trials and triumphs of living your life your way.

Knowledge is Safe...and possibly going to kill us...What? I thought knowledge was a good thing?Ok lets play with this word Knowledge. For the record this isnt scientific its simply a late night under the stars pondering the meaning of life and language.The word Knowledge has been dancing around in my head and I notice that there are two words in that one big word.KNOW and LEDGE.Let that sink in....KNOW and LEDGE.Huh..interesting.The more I know the closer to the ledge I am...What ledge? Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Ledges can go either way...ya know.So how do we know?We know by experience our past the moments weve lived have shaped what we know even our ability to know what we know has been shaped by education parenting current affairs selfies cell phones the Bee Gees our entire world view is made up from our past and we love that.How often do we stop to remember the past. A memory triggered by a sound a smell a word.Sometimes this is a good thing as in ....lets not step in that cesspool again that was nasty and sometimes its because there was a feeling of safety and yes even if that safety was tainted with trauma and coping mechanisms we made it safe.So safe in fact that were prisoners of it. The notion of questioning our own institutions our own beliefs about what is is so frightening...That hanging around in the question ofWHAT IF? is so ugly dark and uncomfortable that wed rather to stay in the suffering we know.What happens when we jump off the ledge? What happens if you ask WHAT IF?The stories in this book are from real people who asked that question stayed with it long enough to have a new experience build new neuro-pathways new institutions and beliefs that came from a deeper more meaningful place which impacted them so deeply that they cannot return to the Known They must Dance in the Unknown... because that is where life happens....