Can the teachings of Eckhart Tolle help dissolve the personal and collective gay pain-body? Is being gay a help or hindrance to spiritual awakening? Does the label “Gay” limit a deeper experience of the true essence of life?

Please join Greg Larsen, and special guests Nick Fyffe and Peter Bedard, as they explore the teachings of Eckhart Tolle and what the teachings say about being gay, the possibilities for healing, being honest, living an authentic life, and spiritual awakening.

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Listen to the August 5th recording of the “Healing the Gay Pain-Body” podcast with Greg Larsen and Nick Fyffe at www.LivingwithTolle.com.

Now for more on our special guests:

Richard "Nick" Fyffe, peace Minister, likes nothing more than regarding himself as a “regular Joe”….” I find it more and more “extraordinary” to be “ordinary”…. How liberating it is to “come without credentials” without the labels that one imposes on oneself or the labels society loves to put in place”.

Just a bit about Nick. Nick is from Ohio but has lived in Arizona for 6 years with his partner Brian. They have been together 10 years.

After graduating high school, Nick married very young at age 18, and soon after had 2 sons. When he was “outed” as a gay, he divorced at age 23. Years and decades of self-judgment, family rejection and the loss of visitation with his sons, depression deepened and manifested in a self-induced Christian fundamentalist mindset. The combination of being gay and Christian launched him into a deep spiritual quest for relief from his depression. During this time Nick was engrossed in his working career of nearly 30 years with AT&T.

Then came along Eckhart Tolle…..life changed…quickly at first, then some back sliding and little by little things started shifting. “I’ve allowed the thought (forms) of others to manage my entire life…and worse yet…I adopted them as my own”…..an intense study of Eckhart’s teachings followed, along with the teachings of Krishnamurt, one of Echhart’s often quoted spiritual teachers.

This brings us to the present period when Nick was recently ordained as a “Minister of Spiritual Peacemaking” or “Peace Minister” after completion of seminary studies with the “Beloved Community Seminary” (a non-denominations interfaith seminary). Nick’s Peace Ministry has been focusing primarily on working with other gay men, who find themselves in the grips of Christian fundamentalism and especially men who are now in traditional marriages and find themselves living a lie. Those who married because their religion told them to do so or they followed societies traditional “Thinking”….JUST LIKE NICK DID.

Nick can be reached at nickfyffe (at) aol.com.

Peter Bedard is a hypnotherapist who lives in Los Angeles. He has come close to dying several times and has healed himself of fibromyalgia, chronic sinus infections, bronchitis, asthma, an allergy to chlorine, sciatica, and fifteen years of chronic pain.

He has even had to learn how to walk again. In dealing with his health conditions the only options that he was aware of were Western medicine and pharmaceutical drugs. He first discovered alternative health practices when his back was so out of whack that he couldn’t walk. The Western medical doctors were recommending surgery but he knew from watching his father whose vertebrae had been fused together that he didn't want that. He discovered acupuncture through a referral from a friend and he literally dragged himself into his first acupuncture appointment. He crawled into that office a skeptic but amazingly walked out a believer.

"It's a good idea to meet with other people who are moving into presence, so if you can find a group of people, who together are not 'trying'... That is very helpful, because the group itself is an energy field; an extremely helpful energy field is created in which it becomes easier for presence to arise." ~ Eckhart Tolle

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