Deconstructing Yourself Soulmaking Dharma, with Catherine McGee
Dec 8, 2020
Catherine McGee, an Insight meditation teacher who co-developed Soulmaking Dharma, explores using "soul" in a Buddhist frame and training perception toward beauty and sacredness. She discusses working with the energy body, imaginal practice, prerequisites like grounding in emptiness, and who is drawn to this path. Short, evocative reflections on how perception co-creates meaningful inner worlds.
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From Bodhgaya To Soulful Practice
- Catherine McGee discovered meditation after traveling to India and attending teachings in Bodhgaya, which led her to a 20-day retreat at Gaia House.
- That retreat opened soulful resonances she later connected to her childhood experiences of sacredness after Holy Communion.
Soul As An Instrument Of Perception
- Soul-making Dharma trains perception to see in ‘soulful ways’ while grounded in emptiness.
- Soul here means an instrument of perception tuned across heart, body, mind, imagination, and instinct.
We Participate In Making Perception
- Perception always involves the perceiver: self and object co-arise and one participates in making experience.
- Soul-making trains that participation to simultaneously create and discover more beauty and sacredness.