There have been various times, over the years, when I've had to spend some time repairing the meditation cabin I lived in, or addressing other maintenance issues on the property. During these times, i received a few letters from dear old friends, or family, who had questions about what I was doing – or just about how I was surviving, given that I had no income, and lived on donations to meditate full-time.
After some reflection, I decided to reach back out, and offer to have some recorded conversations with them, over the landline at my retreat location – in the hope that maybe our back-and-forth about these ideas, and situations, might be useful to others at some point. I had no idea whether that would be true – or when I would get around to finding a way to share them.
Then, after years of not having the financial resources to see my teacher – or to stay anywhere but a free place – I was given the opportunity to enter strict retreat at the Center for Contemplative Research, in Crestone Colorado. I realized three things: 1.) If I didn't post these conversations, they'd likely never get posted. 2.) There were people in the broader community who valued what I was doing, and might appreciate the content and 3.) It meant more to me than I could have expected, to have something to offer sincere practitioners, who were just hoping to find a way to improve their meditation, and their ability to extend their spiritual practice more throughout their days and lives.
A fourth factor is that, as I'm finding out, centers are expensive to run, maintain, and stay at – and the cost of living is rising. Friends were emphasizing to me that there are people out there who would like to support what I'm doing – just because they believe in the path I'm on, and in the aspirations I've held for almost two decades now. "There are people out there who just want to help with those things, and don't want anything in return – but they don't know about you," I was told.
Unreify.com is the product of all these things – and of the time I had spent, little by little, over years, accumulating conversations, editing them during active times, and getting help with polished transcripts and relatively polished audios. I took whatever material I had, put it all together as best I could, and set it up to auto-post while I was in retreat.
I hope that, somehow, the content here might be helpful to you – or at least that it causes no harm. It's wonderful to be on this path together, and I'm very grateful that you've taken the time to share practice with me.
Thank you for visiting.
Warm wishes,
Terran Palmer-Angell
