A tree does not try to be anything but a tree, nor does an amoeba try to be a giraffe - so why did I for years try to be what I was not? Because I was conditioned to be what I was not, that's why.

Eventually I began to see through the conditioning I grew up in, and slowly, sometimes painfully, often with great joy, I have worked through the conditioning. This forum is a place to share our ideas, experiences and entusiasm for being and reclaiming who we really are - beings by implication designed for joy, implicitly enabled by our very existence to be happy, to be loving, to be creative, to be honest.