Field Note #3: True Meeting

Lately I’ve been reflecting on the importance of a true meeting.

How many of us can go through long stretches of time without ever really meeting life, another person, or even ourselves in a deeper way?

And yet, people also speak about these powerful moments—moments of connection, insight, or inner shift—where something opens and they really meet. They meet another. They meet life. They meet themselves.

I don’t think these moments need to be reserved for plant medicines, retreats, long initiations, or extraordinary experiences.

I think true meeting can happen much more regularly than that.

I think it is part of the beauty of being alive.

Part of the beauty of being here, now.

And yet, we often skip over this simplicity. The mind wants to move quickly toward meaning, toward outcome, toward what it can get or understand. It wants to jump ahead rather than stay with the quiet intimacy of what is actually here.

But I find that something else becomes possible when we truly meet in this way.

When we soften enough to arrive, the binds begin to release.

The body relaxes its grip.

The moment opens.

And in that meeting, we come into contact with a living intelligence that is already present—an intelligence that does not need to be forced, achieved, or figured out.

Maybe true meeting begins when we slow down enough to actually arrive.

To arrive in the body.

To arrive in the breath.

To arrive with another person.

To arrive in the life that is already here.

My time in Nature keeps showing me that we are not alone in this. The jungle participates. The birds, the trees, the movement of the morning, the quiet itself—they all become part of the field.

As I recorded this reflection, an aracari pair came in, which felt like a reminder that these Field Notes are never separate from the living world around me.

I’d love to invite you to spend a little time with this one.

Explore what it means to truly meet your body, another human, the animals, the trees, or the moment itself.

See what depth opens in a simple hello.