It might be stupid commenting on a blog post almost two years old. But even if this post is in the past for you and you may hardly remember writing it, I just wanted let you know that I thank you for recording your experiences and that they resonate with me.

Especially parts such as: "'What - if any - is the relation between my inner soul and the external world?'" While day to day practicalities demand having enough for sustaining oneself, in essence money is an abstraction of our relation to the world around us.

Thank you for sharing the shamanic journey - also something that resonated with me. You've broadened my horizons by introducing me to Clementine's blog, which related to a lot of subjects that interest me: Advaita vedanta, shamanism, vipassana...

It takes a certain amount of 'guts' to look an uncertain future in the eye, greeting it with a cheery confidence the logical brain wars against.

Cheers Erkka!