Spring Newsletter - Easter 2026
Dearest Clients, Subscribers, Students, and Friends.Greetings from...
The Present
Seasonally, Spring is the time for great renewal. Functionally, a "spring" is the moment when we feel compressed, down to the very ground of our being, all of our layers pushing into one another, followed by the moment of release, a mind "spring."
That release comes from a process of letting go (the yin), or taking action (the yang). In our mind, we either let go of the ground, the familiar, or we take action by triggering a letting go, just like taking the action needed to release a spring. In duality, the heart-mind only has those two options.
Both, that yin approach of being (letting go), or the yang approach of doing (taking action that leads to letting go), can be seen as two options of the mind in the ultimate experience of merging being with doing.
Both approaches feel like pressure in the lead up to the release. It can feel like the weight of a feather, or of the world herself. If the latter, you know what it is like to live as Atlas, instructed by Zeus to eternally hold up the earth and the sky and the cosmos, without end.
Seeing as Atlas not only tried to trick Hercules into taking his job, but also refused to be hospitable to Perseus, it is pretty clear that he wasn't very good at letting go when under pressure. In Atlas' story, following his resistant state, he was turned into a mountain range, specifically the Atlas Mountains, a deity "time-out" to think about things, and relax, and learn to let go more. Mountains are made for that.
In perfect timing for this newsletter, my mountain climbing partner sent me a list a few days ago of things I have evidently said to her. Perhaps I said these things while climbing up a mountain, or walking around Taos with her, where she grew up, and knows everyone, and even lives in the house where she was delivered as a newborn into the world. My favorite from her "Kim-la Prayers" list is most frequently credited to Anaïs Nin, and it is a beautiful line of poetry and truth.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than it took to blossom.
The compression leading to a spring forward can feel like pain. Certainly. Unequivocally. The experiences that lead to the blossom from the tight bud, the energy of letting go to open more, into your fullness of who you truly are, that can seem like the pain of childbirth.
If you have gone through childbirth, you know, it really is all about letting go. When you hear people say "push! PUSH!" - that is for them. That baby is coming and the things inside that are bringing that baby into the world are happening whether you push or not, whether you want that in the moment, or not. This is the nature of the experience of primordial surrender. It is a way we all, regardless of biology, can have an experience of the divine giving birth. It is you who is being born. You are the vessel of the divine experience, and the witness to the divine's greatest act - birthing a new identity, a new future.
This winter felt like a compression of a spring, the time we have been through, as a community, and as a collective of human beings. So many subject matter areas were in compression, squeezing the dark out into the light. The abuse of power, through the systems that we have historically relied upon, in the physical for organizing community, or balancing and allocating external power, are so polarized, so extreme, one might not be sure what reality you are actually living in. I am quite certain you have noticed that our current external sovereigns have something to teach us about what happens when we, with our free will, give away our power.
So what do we do with the mind when we are feeling compressed? Remember that when you feel the compression, you can know it for what it is - temporary. Mahamudra practice allows for this. In that practice, we look at the compression, look at it, directly, and ask questions of the direct experience in meditation.
Questions like:
What color is this compression?
What does it taste like?
Where did it come from?
Why is it being experienced now?
What is its true nature?
It is like a living poem of your experience, inside meditation.
This style of inquiry is used in meditation practice to get at both Relative Truth as well as Absolute Truth. It is a part of Nature of Mind practice from my Tibetan tradition, and is an aspect of insight (Lhaktong) meditation. Nature of Mind practice is a direct path into the nature of one's own mind. It is powerful because prana moves with it. The other style of meditation, which is characterized as a focus on tranquility/calm abiding, that practice does not cause prana to move...it causes it to settle. Nature of Mind practice is the supreme change maker. If you need to move into a different state, call the Nature of Mind movers. (More on Nature of Mind can be found in an article I wrote available here.)
The experience of Spring, be it outside in nature, or in your mind, is a move into more light - more daylight, more insight, more knowing, more joy and jumping. And by jumping, I mean jumping between bardos. A jump between the bardo of meditation and the bardo of living can result in psychokinesis, aka PK. This is a brilliant lightness practice. I guarantee you will jump on the inside the first time your PK blooms.
The Past
I recently spoke on Jimmy Church's Fade to Black, and he was game to try PK without any pre-show prep, live on his show. In one word, that is courageous. That is the equivalent of an "onsight" Free Solo in climbing. It is almost never done - even the most experienced climbers do not do that. Too risky. But not for Jimmy.
The show was 2 hours but felt in terms of time, extremely dilated (more childbirth references). It felt like we just touched on a few things, a few ways of using the mind and seeing one's mind. What comes to me now in terms of what I wanted to say in that program, if there had been more time, is that in Tibetan, sems is the same word for both mind and heart. There is only one word for both ideas. They are merged into one - the mind and the heart - from the first thought of either. It is the reason Tibetans have such a different experience of life from that of brain-focused mind-model thinkers.
The Tibetans (as well as others) see the mind-heart as the seat of consciousness, not the brain. The brain is more of a home-level storage device, a physical thing with a localized function in the physical. When we look at the mind, at Subtle Energy, really look using insight meditation, we can first see, then know, the "empty nature" of the brain. Yes, the brain has a function, but its "thingness" makes it obsolete quickly in our experience of the mind. When we see the brain as a solid, unchanging thing, we solidify that model of the physical, thus making it our experience. (Still think the brain is the seat of consciousness? Read this article - a case that seminally informs researchers of consciousness, like Dr. Alex Cleeremans.)
The brain, unless it has a way to explain how PK works, won't allow it to work, or work well. This is why PK does not work for many analytically-focused people or groups who use skepticism as a way of filtering out information and potentials. To have repeatable experiences, the mind needs a model for how PK can work. This is exactly why physical models offer repeatability. Physical models are orders of operation that can be used to see the same predictable result. Models have been built on skepticism, of course. However, what if we used neutrality and discernment (a form of wisdom) to build our new models of living?
The Future
This is why learning about Subtle Energy, learning Reiki for example, is so useful for PK. Subtle Energy practice provides a logical framework that allows the future experience to pass through the brain (which is local), then into the mind (which is non-local), and that passthrough becomes stable enough to have an experience in the physical/local system (i.e., the bardo of life). That is why when you travel through Tibet or Nepal, you see PK practice on rocks. Handprints and footprints are set into the rock. The minds of the Tibetans and Nepalese have a model for how this can work, and so it does.
If you read about western scientists trying to figure out how this was done, the leaving of handprints on rocks as calling cards, you will read hypotheses like "the children placed their hands in the rock while the sandstone was forming." When one knows both systems, one readily sees that the western explanation is too far fetched - it feels wrong, or better yet, it presents too narrow a view. Western science asks, nay, demands a physical explanation, no matter how unlikely. Science isn't science without a hypothesis.
For Tibetan Buddhists in Tibet, Nepal, and elsewhere, where the mind model includes the system of a non-local mind interacting and directing the physical experience, PK can be a widespread and common experience. The non-local mind can be the beginning of the future experience. This is precognition. And it can happen all the time, whether one perceives it happening, or not. If one does not perceive it, then it does not exist for them. If one can, it does.
One of my teachers, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche had many stories of PK. In one, a young boy was rolling rocks for fun, and re-forming them, like Playdough. The boy's teacher came upon him, and was ready to scold the boy, as the boy's teacher incorrectly assumed the boy was rolling around an animal or something organic, something the brain says is malleable on the same time scale as the observer. The teacher had not seen someone do this before to rock, and made an assumption from what the teacher already had in his experience. I have wondered if this boy from the story was Khenpo describing his own personal experience as a boy. When I clear my field, and ask that question using neutrality and my dowsing rods, "was Khenpo the boy in that story?" I get a clear and fast "yes" response.
While on pilgrimage in Tibet and Nepal, you can see many such "calling cards" for masters. Here is a link to one that someone posted of a handprint left by Padmasambava. In our Psi Games nomenclature, this would be classified as Macro-PK. Tummo, or Inner Fire, would have been a practice that Padmasambava would have taught for this level of Macro-PK.
Reiki is another practice I have seen that results in practitioners achieving Macro-PK with consistent results for practical applications, like healing the body. If you have taken my Reiki classes, you will have seen the video I have of two doctors using prana to straighten out the spine of a boy suffering from > 50° Severe scoliosis in a single session. I have had the video for a long time, prior to AI. It is authentic.
This is our future. Once we develop the insight and skills to use and direct with precision our Subtle Energy, our individual world changes. This has been true for me personally, and I can see how this is becoming more and more adopted as a way of living in our communities. We are being together differently, and it is so exciting to be a part of it, as I know it is for many of you as well.
If you are interested in working on mastering your inner technology, and find this all interesting and exciting, I have some new content on my website, including a number of podcasts, appearances on Gaia TV, and some videos on YouTube with instructions and inspiration for a daily practice. I re-designed my website so people could see with some specificity the kinds of Subtle Energy inner tech they can develop, many of which relate to wisdom practices with lineages linked to the mythical inter-dimensional Kingdom of Shambhala, and in the physical bardo, from approximately 400 BCE to the present.
Popular one-on-ones for a Warrior-Healer Session right now are:
Reiki Levels (Shoden and Okuden) - I can usually train a student in the first two levels using 3 one-on-one sessions along with 40 hours of at-home practice. I instruct in the Art of Reiki using a combination of traditional Usui Reiki, combined with practices from my Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana tradition. This approach focuses on the warrior and the healer, the practitioner and the mystic. I teach at the pace the student needs such that they can demonstrate their proficiency in moving Subtle Energy. I offer a Reiju (known as an Abisheka in Sanskrit, Wang in Tibetan)...it is an empowerment of Subtle Energy. I focus on a number of ancient techniques, including kotodama (aka mantra/sound) to build and focus energy. Reiki is a practice for learning how to heal oneself and others, as well as the ultimate experience of realizing one's True Nature. Students are a part of The Art of Reiki Collective, a group of Reiki practitioners that regularly practice together as a group, online and in-person.
Tummo (Inner Fire) - Tummo is a Completion Stage Practice within the Great Perfection epistemological tradition of Tibet. It works with subtle energy and super-subtle energy by way of portals (vortexes), channels, visualizations, breathing techniques, seed syllables and devotional practice with the Divine Feminine. Wim Hof popularized an aspect of this practice, the physical steps of a breathing practice that can provide a gateway into beginner subtle energy awareness. Tummo practice is focused on activating your subtle energy and learning how to use your inner technology to attain realization of emptiness and the great bliss states unified.
PK (Psychokinesis) - Psychokinesis is a subtle energy practice of changing the physical world using the mind-heart. In a one-on-one session, I teach you the process that leads to PK outcomes as well as how to generate the pranic energy that fuels the alignment/manifestation. Once the client's practice is consistent, we move onto more challenging exercises, and learn different and creative ways of building accuracy and power within an ethical framework.
Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) - This technique regresses one using hypnosis, allowing travel into the 8th Consciousness (Past Lives) and into 9th Consciousness (Higher Self). Often times, it is the first experience of verbally channeling one's Higher Self. Profound experiences are the norm with this Half-Day Warrior-Healer Session. Integration for this session can take weeks to months.
Dowsing - Dowsing is a practice of using physical tools to locate and quantify information that is Subtle in nature. I frequently use this approach for the quantification of information that has spatial and temporal attributes, such as locating anything in space using a map or the ground surface, as well as locating anything in time (past, present, future), nature portals, objects, Higher Self communication, and working in the markets, just to name a few examples of applications. This approach is used when one doesn't have enough information to target. You can start with a large territory of time-space, and narrow down on specifics as you go. I used it to identify from my client list who should get this newsletter, so only those who would benefit from the information in this newsletter would receive it! It provides for a very efficient means of narrowing down large collections and groupings of information or choices into a single, actionable and clear response from the future self/selves who need the information.
Group Retreat - In terms of group retreat, there is one coming up May 21-25 in Southern Pines, NC. I am very excited about this one, as the Psi Games Intensive in March in Austin was so powerful, and so many there had peak experiences. This time, I'll be teaching again with Hakim Isler the first of two levels - this time of "Intuitive Perception." We'll train in Mind Sight (seeing exclusively with intuition), Remote Viewing (seeing and translating for a third party objective information with only intuition), and Dowsing (finding objective information including that in the physical with only intuition). There is limited space left, so if this one resonates, go for it now by registering here.
Lastly, I just wanted to share my utter appreciation for each and every one of you. Your notes, emails, texts, and audio recordings inspire me every single day. This morning I went back and was listening to some QHHT session recordings from the last four years, in connection with the book I am writing. In that listening, I was deeply moved by the shear courage and depth of heart and meaning in your spoken words, and the feelings broadcast in them. That I get to be a small part of your journey means the world to me. With your courage, you are changing this world to see more, experience more, and become more. I bow to you.
Happy Spring for the benefit of all, without exception.
Warmly,
Kim
