Summer 2026 hot days in Warsaw, Poland. After six years of living here, perhaps it is time to move. When in 2010 I was looking for a place to move from North Bay Ontario, where I lived since 1981, take away 5 years (87-92), when I came to Warsaw to regain my balance, expose my three children to Polish culture and language, and get my formal education in psychology at University of Warsaw. So, from 2010 for four years I looked for a place that I want to learn from and create a residence where I can offer retreats and psychotherapy. Traveling to a few places around the world I didn't feel drawn to any of them. They were more or less OK, but none of them spoke to me "home", until I heard enthusiastic stories from a young man about Costa Rica! He was planning to open small brewery on Nikoya peninsula in Costa Rica. I decided to go there and explore, although I already had a hunch within that this is a place I want to move to.
When I went for a month in 2014 to Playa Grande on Nicoya it really felt like home, so next year I rented out my house in North Bay Ontario, packed my bags, and moved to Costa Rica.
I rented a beautiful home in Playa Panama, Guanacaste and enjoyed there five glorious years... until Covid came.
When one is ageing it’s a good idea to change a place of your residence every so often, maybe five, six years. Why? Because it forces your brain to work a bit harder, it forces you to focus more to create your new routines, create new experiences to adjust to the new ways of living and maybe to learn a local new language, for me was Spanish. All that is an excellent workout for your brain. If you worry that you will miss your old place, learn to rely on Authentic you which has an access to all the places you ever lived, not just as a memory but as a knowing, feeling, being there...Authentic you really never moved because you are not in here and now, but Authentic beings are in ALWAYS. Always in all the places you ever lived. You can move in your mind of authentic in an instance, and you are there, walking with Sam the dog on Pacific beach or sitting on my dock on the lake in North Bay Ontario. Perhaps I will return back there, because now, after 11 years it will be new to me, or perhaps I will move somewhere else.
I’m going to decide by the end of the year.
Bank Square, Warsaw. 2020 Summer project space for recreation and entertainment instead of car parking.
The most effective way to help someone who is struggling with darkness is by clarity and strength. Where does it come from? Only from Authentic you. Hence all the therapies that are solely based on prepacked program, with a design scenario, session by session, are completely ineffective in the long run. You cannot transfer strength to change through the ego. You can bring illumination by information without light energy that comes from love emitted by authentic you. The way to accomplish a sure transfer of the strength to change, and energy of wisdom how to do it, you must connect your Ai (Authentic identity, timeless self) to the student/client’ one. And session by session you keep highlighting the presence of Ai and dismissing the voice of ego to the point, when the difference between the Ai and the Ego - conditioned, programmed, controlled by the outside world “I” so obvious to me, becomes obvious to the client. This gives a client ability to create change and differentiate the. As a therapist you cannot be responsible for what your client will do with your offerings, but you must be 100% responsible for you are offering. You cannot hide behind a method, a plan, a program. The benefit of the Ai – ego differentiation is incomparable to benefits of any other methods of therapy. Only your presence with lights on can help another person to see own strength, own light, own love.
One’s attention of this dual identity (one true, one false) inevitably brings clarity; what creates drama and pain, and who creates ease and joy. There is no final point of this effort if you live amongst humans, but you can reduce your ego’s claims to be a master,and give him/her tasks of a proper servant, and a quiet one.
Working name of my method is “YAGA” - "You And the Gatekeepers to Authentic"
“YAGA” - in Jamaican surfers' slang it’s a greeting, sort of "what's up!".In Slavic old tales, it's a name of a witch "Baba Yaga". Although depicted as a wicket witch, I am sure only out fear of her wisdom, people made up nasty stories about her. Both not too suitable for me, I am not a surfer and nobody makes bad stories about me (although who knows?) . A connection between two Authentic identities always strengthens the presence of Ai, and makes for me the process of guiding people out of the conditioned “I” set by the collective ego as the identity traps, possible and effective. Without that connection, any psychotherapy is like moving deck chairs on a Titanic. Inevitably the ship sinks even with nicely arranged egoic life.
"You And the Gatekeepers to Authentic" YAGAThe learning what makes the difference to people seeking lasting change was initially a process of elimination of what does not work.For many years as a clinical psychologist and therapist I applied and modified known methods, like Gestalt, humanistic, bioenergy, transactional analysis, to name a few, but I shifted to self-developed spiritual psychotherapy and lastly to “You And the Gatekeepers to Authentic (YAGA)”. There was no discovery or a sudden shift in developing the method of helping minds to become healthy, clear, energetic, it was just a progressive clearing clients from the clutter of information and emotions that prevented them to live healthy life.
My job is to inspire to seek.We all know that we live in the world of dualities. We have the world that dies and the world that doesn’t. The well spread saying: “nothing is forever” is true only in the material world; beyond that is not true anymore! The word forever itself came from the understanding that there are some things forever. Like timeless, authentic, forever you.My work is to show how to recognize the authentic you, and keep it as the operator and the most obvious presence in your daily life. The things that are not forever are obvious; your body - brain included. Both are operated by set of programs, that enable you to function as a member of society which needs to survive and expand. The programs that run your body and brain are called ego. They are uploaded and constantly updated by direct interaction with the messages carried by others, and indirectly by being permanently connected with a non-local storage of information called morphic field, created collectively, globally and locally by humanity to increase probability and quality of survival.Why is non-local? Because it doesn’t take space and we can access it wherever we are with no travelling time. It comes to us only intuitively when we have an attentive, open and clear mind. I can do it at the time of heightened attention for the convenience of telepathic connection.
What I like the most in my work is that, when needed, I can access this non-local information field for the most credible interaction with people, who come for help. With the unsorted thoughts and confused minds people struggle with darkness often for years and nothing is more rewarding than guiding them to clarity.My method is based on the ability (that took me years to develop) to see and understand the field packed with personal information pertinent to their unique process of walking towards the inner light. What gives me the access to the information provided in someone’s morphic field is not the will to know, but the intention to help without an interference of my educated knowledge what would be the best for them. It’s all written in the field and the honest intentions provide the access.The increasing amount of data and the complexity of information created a monstrous ego systems to which a human born today receives from the first formed neuron a downloaded access, with endless upgrades throughout their life. Some parts of the ego are downloaded and stay in memory of experiences, skills, data, established beliefs and values, information about events, places, people, things. The rest is just "there" stored non-locally ready for the downloads.
Evolution of social structures in the last two centuries due to an expanding population, expanding innovations, expanding production and services, resulted in a staggering amount of programs created to operate growing complexity of technologized daily life.Human collective ego also stores data through media and internet offered locally with unprecedented ease of access, in overwhelming amounts. With an increasing population the mass of produced goods, work places that are producing, selling, servicing became a maze of information that requires a modern human to be familiar with, to some degree if needs to be part of any society. A knowledge of rules set by governmental institutions, social organizations, sports and entertainment industry, carries staggering amount of information that one has to be familiar with, especially in urban setting. Complexity of all produced information and sheer amount of it, without a discipline can take and waste life of an unaware human.
My work is to guide the operator of the body/brain system, to become in charge of own data line-up. When the programs run person’s life, the life becomes random and illogical.When you are in charge of your programs, thoughts, emotions, attention, actions, the life within you becomes as you want it.My wish to all of you, is that you become competent operators of your egos, and be the most obvious presence in your daily life.
At home on Coreen, North Bay, Ontario 2012
In Gdańsk, Poland 2005
In my backyard in North Bay 2014
Piaseczno, 1992
In my backyard in North Bay 2014
In my backyard in North Bay 2016
Pow-pow iguana baby in harmony with 4 cats and a dog, none mine
Christmas in Berlin 2018