There is a Way
to Create Our Future
to Create Our Future
This book has become more pressingly relevant to the needs of the times than I could have imagined when I began it more than fifteen years ago. It is as if I was writing it for this particular time, for it is about the roots of the rampant hatred, violence, and xenophobia we are witnessing, and what is needed to address these afflictions to bring about a more peaceful world.
Sat Santokh S. Khalsa, November 2020
Sat Santokh S. Khalsa, November 2020
I was inspired to work with Sat Santokh (in founding Creating Our Future) because he holds being and doing as equally sacred. Being and doing as equally sacred – what a concept. I saw in this what Babaji meant when he told me to “serve the people.” And, Sat Santokh is a wise guide for youth who seek to find expression in effective social action for their ideals.
Ram Dass, August 1994
Ram Dass, August 1994
Ram Dass, the renowned spiritual figure … notes that while serving in Creating Our Future, he was inspired by Sat Santokh Singh’s fusion of social action and spirituality. “In the ’60s, one group wanted peace inside, and one wanted peace outside,” he offers. “And we were very, very [divided]. [Singh] helped me bridge those two things together."
Ram Dass, January 2013 (From the article "Kundalini Rising" by Damon Orion, in Good Times, a Santa Cruz newspaper)
Ram Dass, January 2013 (From the article "Kundalini Rising" by Damon Orion, in Good Times, a Santa Cruz newspaper)
Love, kindness and presence are the essential qualities necessary for healing. These qualities are the foundations of this book. The author's open heart and humility are welcoming us all to Whole Beingness. There is a resonant mobius strip of consciousness, that connects our deepest injuries, to the ills that beset our World. As we feel safe in our own being, we create a world that is equally safe. Wholeness within, is the balm of Gilead that heals the wider world. This lovely book is welcoming us to wholeness.
It was good to spend time with you,
Blessings, Fleur Green
It was good to spend time with you,
Blessings, Fleur Green
I began the book based on a recommendation that here was a way that abuse of children could be stopped, rather than being transferred from generation to generation, on and on. I became increasingly impatient—“get to the point!—how is the necessity and impossibility of ending violence to children to be accomplished?” And, soon I thought, “Stop telling me about your wonderful life—tell me your plan!”
Yet the personal autobiographical information grew on me. I warmed to this person. When I found out that he ran SelfWorth workshops cradling the head of the journeyer in his hands, I realized I wanted to know who is this one to whom I would entrust my cranium for a SelfWorth session—who holds my head, gives instructions to those touching my body from both sides, and guides me through a tour of my most difficult memories. And lets arise the memories that I sought to forget, even the ones that I thought I had forgotten. I was impressed by his statement that many people said they had a fine childhood but, in just five minutes of permission-space, they open up a wide range of painful memories!
The earlier part of the book, I found, warmed me to this person and this process. And wooed me into acceptance of his discoveries and methods.
Thus the history of child abuse does not come at the beginning of the book, thank goodness! It is such difficult material to encounter, that tests my assessment of the goodness of humanity. It goes in deeper because of the pleasure of encountering the teller of the story.
The shadows are brought out for us to see—the shadow of the fragile male ego of all cultures, whose sexual energy is out of control. This needs to be named, and worked with, individually and as the community of humanity. The shadow of ridicule and shame and rejection that so cleary indicates the weakness of the dominator—this needs to be named and worked with, individually and as the community of humanity.
I applaud the efforts to challenge the requirement of cultures and religions to visit children with violence. I would like to hear more about alternatives, which are hinted at, yet could be more fully presented. A child needs nurturance, support, protection … and limits. How are these provided? It’s easy to give a spanking for everything, even for nothing-in-particular. It’s more difficult to listen—an art that needs to be trained. How does this training come about?
The title is ambiguous. This sharing, this story, and this life deserve a stronger statement.
Giving space for opening to one’s own experiences, and rejections of one’s self as bad and wrong, requires a caring space that SelfWorth gives. Replacing with affirmations, so oddly obvious yet rare, is a task that we can all give. Sat Santokh reveals that the negativities were the replacements, that he through his skill removes, returning to the basic goodness of the human being.
Thank you for this work.
David Tresemer, PhD.
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Yet the personal autobiographical information grew on me. I warmed to this person. When I found out that he ran SelfWorth workshops cradling the head of the journeyer in his hands, I realized I wanted to know who is this one to whom I would entrust my cranium for a SelfWorth session—who holds my head, gives instructions to those touching my body from both sides, and guides me through a tour of my most difficult memories. And lets arise the memories that I sought to forget, even the ones that I thought I had forgotten. I was impressed by his statement that many people said they had a fine childhood but, in just five minutes of permission-space, they open up a wide range of painful memories!
The earlier part of the book, I found, warmed me to this person and this process. And wooed me into acceptance of his discoveries and methods.
Thus the history of child abuse does not come at the beginning of the book, thank goodness! It is such difficult material to encounter, that tests my assessment of the goodness of humanity. It goes in deeper because of the pleasure of encountering the teller of the story.
The shadows are brought out for us to see—the shadow of the fragile male ego of all cultures, whose sexual energy is out of control. This needs to be named, and worked with, individually and as the community of humanity. The shadow of ridicule and shame and rejection that so cleary indicates the weakness of the dominator—this needs to be named and worked with, individually and as the community of humanity.
I applaud the efforts to challenge the requirement of cultures and religions to visit children with violence. I would like to hear more about alternatives, which are hinted at, yet could be more fully presented. A child needs nurturance, support, protection … and limits. How are these provided? It’s easy to give a spanking for everything, even for nothing-in-particular. It’s more difficult to listen—an art that needs to be trained. How does this training come about?
The title is ambiguous. This sharing, this story, and this life deserve a stronger statement.
Giving space for opening to one’s own experiences, and rejections of one’s self as bad and wrong, requires a caring space that SelfWorth gives. Replacing with affirmations, so oddly obvious yet rare, is a task that we can all give. Sat Santokh reveals that the negativities were the replacements, that he through his skill removes, returning to the basic goodness of the human being.
Thank you for this work.
David Tresemer, PhD.
About David Tresemer >
Books by Davin Tresemer >