Beyond the Mirror: Staying Human Inside the Machine


How AI has evolved from a reflective tool into an immersive environment we’re stepping inside. We explore three converging forces: computers built from human brain cells, invisible augmented reality layers, and algorithmic systems making consequential decisions about human lives. As these technologies accelerate beyond our ethical frameworks, our practice must be to reclaim the presence that … Continue reading Beyond the Mirror: Staying Human Inside the Machine


Stranger in the Mirror: The Journey Toward Wholeness


In 1979, psychologist Vivienne Cass mapped a journey that millions have traveled without a name for it — the long, often lonely process of forming a gay identity under the weight of stigma and silence. Drawing on memoir, scholarship, and lived experience, Walter will trace that journey from a child’s first quiet sense of being different to … Continue reading Stranger in the Mirror: The Journey Toward Wholeness

From the Great Above to the Great Below and Back

We’ll share in the retelling of an ancient Sumerian myth as we trace the great ups and downs of our own lives. We’ll reflect on the experience we gather in the Great Below and the insight that helps us emerge, newly wise and newly powerful, on the other side.