Dancing to Nirvana

~One Man's Experience of the Wisdom of the World, Ancient to Modern~

Dancing to Nirvana is the website for Mike Chapman: author of Dancing to Nirvana, Rites of Passage workshop leader, and psychotherapist.

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Articles by Mike Chapman

This Time of Year gives us the Chance to learn Life’s Greatest Lesson in Elephant Journal

My Parents are Going to Die a poem, in Elephant Journal

The 4 Tenets of Mindful, Healthy-Boundary Parenting in Elephant Journal

What the Coronavirus Teaches Us about the Fragile, Impermanent, Heartbreaking Beauty of Life in Elephant Journal

The United States is Not A Christian Nation in Elephant Journal

Free sample chapter of Dancing to Nirvana

This video is a movie trailer style video for the book, Dancing to Nirvana. Buy Dancing to Nirvana on Amazon. Go to my website dancingtonirvana.com to learn more about my work.

This video, Rites of Passage, contains insights into the vision and methods of rites of passage-- collective wisdom gathered from many cultures-- and how we can apply these insights to our spiritual and psychological lives.

This video introduces the idea and the truth underlying the best of all religions, the Unity of Opposites. The Unity of Opposites is called the mythical pattern and the mystical pattern by various religious practitioners and scholars. We know of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden.

Subject and Object are the primary pairs of opposites as they weave through all the other pairs. The Unity of these Opposites is a theme in all mystical and ...

This video is about the pairs of opposites death and life. Though we tend to see them as opposites, they are actually interdependent and unified. For instanc...