Steve Boggs
What archetype most describes your awakened life?
I'd have to say the devotee because the hungry drive for the transcendent, for the oceanic, which characterized the spiritual seeking that occupied most of my adult life was turned on its head when the wholeness became starkly apparent, and suddenly the grandeur of the particular and the intimate sparkled everywhere. You cannot help but feel devotional attraction when everything feels kindred and when the simplest, most ordinary moments of this life reveal their aching beauty.

Current spiritual edge?
I guess I would say that in this time of termination, separation and forced renaming, the most heavy lifting of my spiritual edge involves remaining hopeful, permeable and not allowing my disappointment to turn into disavowal. If others are anything like me, they have probably been feeling traumatized during this period of estrangement and as a result noticing a tendency toward an all or nothing, black or white mindset. I keep reminding myself that truth is almost always composed of shades of gray.

What do you want to share about life and spiritual exploration?
Over these many years I've been increasingly aware of an ardor that is a kind of gravitational mystery ever drawing us on into the journey of this life. Gravity exists in all matter and is an attractive force drawing everything into greater intimacy. Gravity is the eros of matter. Like that, there is a field of love that continuously beckons all of us even if it's haunting call is only heard occasionally like an voice on the wind. Once this is recognized, it becomes a sort of apprenticeship to love from which you never expect to graduate.