The inner work is yours. Nobody can die to your selves or sit your meditation for you. And yet nobody does this work well entirely alone.

Other people show you yourself. A self you never noticed in solitude appears the moment someone disagrees with you. That is why the tradition does not send you away to live on a mountain. You need the friction of life, and of people.

A circle also gives you a place to give. Someone asks a question you answered for yourself last year. Someone shares a dream that frightens them, and you have met that fear. A kind, honest word from you may be the thing that helps.

And in a circle you can check what you find. When two travelers who have never spoken describe the same place in the night, it becomes much harder to call it imagination. Many have found this on the Island.

This app holds such a circle. The shared shore, where dreams are offered. Questions for Gene. The Fireside. Use them as you would any gathering of fellow travelers: honestly, kindly, and without making yourself the center.