The Path is Everywhere:

Unlocking the Jewels Hidden Within You

An eBook from Matt Licata, Ph.D.

The Path is Everywhere is an intimate, provocative journey into the inner landscape of consciousness, the body, and the heart, weaving together the wisdom-streams of contemplative spirituality, relational psychotherapy, and the poetic imagination. It emerged from dialogues I had with colleagues, clients, and participants on retreat, as we opened together into the mysteries of an embodied psychological inquiry and spiritual exploration. 

We hear much about spiritual awakening and the deep joy, clarity, and peace that are its promised fruits. Often ignored, however, are the disappointments of awakening and the ways it can shatter our hearts, breaking us open to the reality of the crucifixion, resurrection, and transfiguration we’re likely to encounter along the way.

In the rush to convert the negative to the positive, manifest everything we believe we want, and manage our lives into some permanent state of “happiness,” we lose contact with the reality that there is no transfiguration without embodiment to the dark cross within. The journey of becoming a true human person is messy by nature, as it emerges directly out of the unknown and requires compassionate confrontation with the entirety of what we are.

As we journey together as fellow travelers, let us commit to embracing both the joy and the heartbreak of the path, and bear witness to the wisdom shining out of our immediate experience, whether it appears as sadness, bliss, despair, or great joy. Grace will appear in both sweet and fierce forms but it is still grace, sent from beyond to open us to the radiant fullness of being.

Chapters included in this Instant Access PDF format:

• The Union of Dark and Light
• Into the Holding Environment
• The Crucible of the Broken; Wholeness and the Spiritual Journey
• An Extraordinary Meeting
• The Sacred Middle; Encoding New Circuitry
• The Mystery of Self and Other
• And the Invitation of True Intimacy. 

About Matt Licata

Matt Licata, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist, teacher, and writer based in Boulder, Colorado. Weaving together the wisdom and practices from somatic and depth psychologies, relational neuroscience and trauma studies, and the meditative discoveries of the mystics, yogis, and alchemists, he presents a contemporary path to embodied transformation and healing. 

He is also the author of A Healing Space: Befriending Yourself in Difficult Times (Sounds True, 2020), and the forthcoming The Path of the Wounded Healer: Embodied Spirituality and the Alchemy of the Heart (expected in 2025).