Expanding his spirit into gratitude for the profound mystery of life—even after everything has been whittled away—is Dylan’s greatest offering. May it be yours too after joining Eleanor Anstruther, Dylan and me in this one-of-a-kind communion. If you missed the LIVE session, the full recording is now available. -
On Wednesday I met with Dr Dylan Shanahan supported by
, and , a live conversation that we’d designed around Dylan’s resources, my questions sent in advance to him, the answers read out by Kimberly. Dylan is a duel doctorate graduate in Naturopathic and Classical Chinese Medicine from NUMN. In 2018 he was diagnosed with ALS but continued his studies, earning an honorary doctorate in 2019. The purpose of the conversation was to promote his memoir, The Liberation of Being, and selfishly, to get to spend time with him, his aura and vibration, the lessons he imparts by living them. He has eye movement, and one muscle beside his mouth can show a smile. He can cry. His memoir was completed in 2024, but even before the onset of ALS, Dylan was, as Kimberly reports, already deep in the practice of becoming a fully realised enlightened being. We could only wonder at the mastery of his light body as he described his ability to reach others through its extension. The full conversation is recorded here. Please do take your time, and enjoy.3rd May
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Housekeeping: Ben Wakeman and I will be in conversation today, 10am EDT / 3pm BST. In Substack terms, we’re old friends, we connected soon after I landed here. He ran the amazing community writing project Same Shoes Different Walk. Remember that? It was a technical feat and an inspiration. Here’s the first story I contributed, plucked from the archive…