{"id":5447,"date":"2013-07-24T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T16:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2015-10-12T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T17:24:19","slug":"inner-worlds-adam-moves-to-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philborges.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/inner-worlds-adam-moves-to-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Moves to Hawaii: Learning to Trust His Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam became homeless<\/a> in Seattle this past winter.\u00a0 So when someone offered him a chance to house-sit in Maui, he sold his car and headed for warmer weather.\u00a0 By the end of January, his house sitting services were no longer needed and he found himself homeless and sleeping on the beach.<\/p>\n

When I arrived in Maui in February to meet him he had just been admitted to Maui Memorial Medical Center with a badly infected foot.<\/p>\n

As I interviewed Adam in his hospital bed he explained how his \u2018guides\u2019 contact him by a poke in the back\u2014what psychiatrists would refer to as a \u2018tactile hallucination\u2019.\u00a0He mentioned that he wasn’t hearing voices, but he was having thoughts that were “clearly not mine”. He also shares that he got to a point when he was no longer frightened by the \u2018interactions<\/a>\u2019 and instead began learning from what the \u2018guides\u2019 were imparting to him.\u00a0 He explained how being homeless and essentially penniless forced him to trust in fate and the good will of others for support.<\/p>\n