Sometimes We Just Have to Follow the Echo

In 2007, I felt compelled to share my emerging understanding of Seeing True as a practice. To be honest, it drove me a bit crazy because I could not describe it since it was more a matter of experiencing it. The result was a practice guide that, much to my surprise, was published in 2008 by Ozark Mountain as Seeing True: Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days. After several appearances at their Transformation Conference, and again much to my surprise, they refreshed and released it again in 2013.

In the years that followed, this Seeing True site was created to expand the practice, and it eventually led to the birth of the Progressive Recovery platform. Of course! The whole idea of 90 in 90 came from the rooms of recovery. Along the way there were more books propelling the Seeing True mindset and philosophy, plus audio sets.

Sometimes I try to explain what many of us have experienced as our calling. The best explanation I have is that we hear some kind of psycho-spiritual echo, and we can no more ignore it than a bloodhound cannot not follow a scent. The funny thing about an echo is the source is elusive. In fact, we may never find it, but we are compelled to follow it.

So you may ask, what is Seeing True? Here I will draw from the site itself:

It is a moment of epiphany that is so pronounced that subsequent changes in direction or behavior are dramatically altered for the better. The Greeks called this “metanoia,” which means "change of mind," though it might translate better today as “a profound change of heart.” In the Seeing True framework, the outer sign is transformation, while the work within ourselves often occurs in a myriad of ways. Regardless, if you want to change anything in the outside world, starting within yourself is ideal. Then it can alter you, your relationships, the organizations to which you belong, and the culture around you as well.

Another Seeing True™ Surprise

Of course the echo continues to call, and of course there would be more surprises. (As an aside, I wonder if I will ever manage to remember that nothing about our lives or our life work is ever finished?) Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days has been released as an audio book, narrated by a good friend and first rate voice guy, Bill Fike. Following are some samples for you to experience.

Please enjoy, and as some of us in recovery like to say, “Take what you like, and leave the rest.”

Overview

Here is an en excerpt that provides some framing, and a better understanding of what to consider.

Of all the ninety pieces, Courage and Innocent jumped out as two provocative ways of seeing the world and ourselves in the world.

And two more pieces seemed quite relevant to those in twelve-step recovery. Pain and Watching fall on opposite ends of the experiential continuum and provide nice contrast.

Seeing True™ in Practice

Hopefully what you’ve heard and felt proves to produce some kind of echo for you, something that rings an inner bell that cannot be unrung. Regardless of what you think, I urge you to be curious and begin to listen for more.

Long ago a teacher told me that the Universe is always listening and cannot not respond. The question for us is whether we are willing to step onto that playground. And from there, to see what may come our way.

Seeing True: Ninety Contemplations in Ninety Days is available in multiple formats at Amazon, or specifically as an audio book at Audible. If you wish to listen on CD, it’s available directly from the publisher.