The Silken Thread Author:David Fisher A giant ball of gleaming straight pins threatened to kill the terrified eleven year old boy. Running in terror, he faced a barrier of thick, black cables. Somehow he knew safety lay in finding a silken thread lying concealed amid the cables. From this nightmare, the author's search for The Silken Thread bec... more »ame a life-long quest.
Many years later, the author realized the ball of pins was the terror of his mother and beliefs formed the barrier of cables keeping him separate and unhappy. The Silken Thread explores healing childhood's wounds and cultivating spiritual growth. The crucial issue addressed is how we give meaning to events and people, especially ourselves. As children we learn patterns of meaning-making. Some patterns, although once helpful, become self-defeating in adulthood.
Recognizing how we are enthralled and trapped by our meaning-making is essential to shifting self-defeating habits into self-enhancing ones. This is described as the Cycle of Healing. In embracing the cycle, we draw upon a range of capacities with which we were born.
These capacities are strands of The Silken Thread. They were never lost. Rather, they became subverted through our habits of meaning-making. The Cycle of Healing focuses on restoring aspects of our original self.
Even in healing, we continue to depend upon meanings. Spiritual growth takes us beyond the need for meaning to learning to be present to the immediacy of our experience. In being present, we recover The Silken Thread, a deep, abiding sense of connectedness within us.« less