The series of articles on my Spiritual Path ended up being called: The Path of One Recovering Codependent ~ the dance of one wounded soul. That series covers my early recovery up through going to treatment for codependency in 1988 in my fifth year of sobriety - and also includes 3 articles that are about the miracles that led to writing and being able to publish Codependence: Dance of the Wounded Souls.There are also other articles in the Journal - as you can see by looking at the Contents page - most of which were later added to the regular website, often in expanded versions.
The personal journal includes 58 web pages (probably close to a million words) and started with sharing my "April Fool's Day Lesson" in the Newsletter of the Premiere issue of the Journal. It was also called The Path of One Recovering Codependent ~ the dance of one wounded soul. As I say in the story of the evolution of this Journal lower on the page, "it is . . . part of an autobiography, but one that only exists in this Journal and may never be published elsewhere . . " In writing those pages I faced and processed through multiple facets and levels of my fear of intimacy issues and two relationship opportunities for growth. There are a lot of stories from my life and recovery - and examples of applying recovery in the processing through various issues and situations - along with some pretty self indulgent writing.;-) I think anyone who appreciates my work and style of writing would find this journal within the Journal very valuable.
The Trilogy is the first writing I did starting in the fall of 1988. It is a Magical, Mystical, Spiritual Fable which includes a history of the Universe unlike any which has ever been written. In this book, my Higher Self appears to me as a Unicorn that gallops off of a picture on the desk of my casita in Taos New Mexico one snowy evening in January 1989. We then go on an adventure through time and space, exploring the meaning and purpose of life. The book is divided into 8 sections of 3 parts - 2 chapters of the narrative story line and one segment of The History of the Universe (although it is only complete through 6 1/2 sections - and may never be completed beyond that.) Writing this work helped me build and refine the foundation for my spiritual Belief system - and later spawned my book: Codependence: Dance of the Wounded Souls.
"In the spring of 1991, Robert Burney was asked to speak in several different venues on the subject of Codependence. In the course of those speaking engagements he heard himself making statements to a general audience that he had never considered saying in public because of their controversial nature. To his surprise he found that the practical process level tools and techniques that he utilized in his private therapy practice were merging with mystical and magical knowledge he had acquired writing a book that was an adult fable about the history of the Universe - the first book of a trilogy. . . .The Attack on America online book is one I started publishing online on September 22, 2001. In early 2002 I moved it from my regular website to this Journal in part because of hate email I was receiving because of the controversial nature of my writing - and because it had become intensely personal and revealing. I didn't want anyone to miss out on the value of reading my articles on codependency recovery and inner child healing because they were distracted by the discussions of historical and cultural international manifestations of codependency - or by the personal revelations - that I shared in this online book. I later did also add this online book to the newer subscription area of Joy2MeU Dancing in Light.
. . . . The Joy2MeU Journal includes the first book of the Trilogy mentioned above (a book that will probably never be finished), the story of Robert's recovery through 1988 when he went to treatment for codependency in his fifth year of sobriety, and a personal journal of his growth process and recovery from 1999 thru 2004." - Biography page
"I also wanted to give you folks on this list a heads up about something that is going to be happening in the not too distant future. We are preparing a site for the material that is in the password protected sections of my site that are pay to view: The Joy2MeU Journal http://Joy2MeU.com/Journal.html and Dancing in Light http://Joy2MeU.com/Codependency_Recovery.htm My partner Jeff was recently able to get the web address: http://dancinginlight.com/ so we are setting up that site to hold the information that is presently in the Dancing in Light section of my site - and we are going to be adding several works from the Joy2MeU Journal, including the my unfinished book: The Dance of the Wounded Souls Trilogy Book 1 - "In The Beginning . ." (subtitled: A Magical, Mystical, Spiritual Fable - which you can read the first few chapters of here http://joy2meu.com/Journal_1/Trilogy.htm ); and The Story of my Spiritual Path / Recovery from getting sober to going through a treatment program for codependency in 1988 in my fifth year of sobriety. (The first chapter in that story is here: http://joy2meu.com/Journal_1/JoyStory.htm)The processing I did in the journal within the Journal has resulted in me being in a relationship for the last 4 years, and also in being blessed with the opportunity to be the primary caretaker for an amazing little boy named Darien. (The story of Darien and I, and our soul contract to meet up in this lifetime is here: Darien ) Because of that, I have very little time to write these day - or even to edit and proofread as I have to do with the new sites we are launching. (Site number 8 will be officially launched in the next couple of weeks.) So, I have not gotten to the new dancinginlight.com as yet. It will probably be October before it will be ready - possibly November. (Still hasn't happened as of May 2010 - hopefully within a month or two.)
Due to the primitive site building program I use, and how complicated it would have been to sell time limited subscriptions to those sections of the site - I have sold them over the years as open ended. Everyone who purchased a subscription (or got one or both for having made a donation - something that is still possible Love Offerings page ) got the same username and password - and basically a life time subscription to the two sections of my site. With the new sites that are going up around RobertBurneyLive.com we now have the capacity to sell time limited (and selected content) subscriptions. So that is what we are going to be doing when we get the site up and running. I will no longer be selling the subscriptions to Dancing in Light on my site - and will not be offering them as part of the special offers I have on some of the main pages (Home page, site index page, New & news page, etc.) The people who already have subscriptions will still be able to access that section of my site, but I won't be selling new ones through Joy2MeU.com (Not sure if I will keep offering them for Donations or not - have to think about that.)" - Message to my Yahoo mailing list February 2009 (My Yahoo mailing list is for anyone who is interested to getting more frequent updates than my Update Newsletters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Joy_2_Me_U/join ) also included in April 2009 Update Newsletter
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page. One new page added to the
journal within the Journal on November 7, 2004.
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journal within the Journal on October 12, 2004.
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within Journal on September 29, 2004. Nine pages added to journal
within Journal on June 3, 2004. One new installment to my
journal posted on February 19, 2004. I added two new installments
to my journal processing on January
20, 2004. I added a new installment
of My Unfolding Dance on December 23, 2003. I added two new installments
of my journal processing on November
24, 2003. I added another installment
of my journal processing on November
14, 2003. I added another page on November 6, 2003.
I added 5 pages to the Journal
on October 29, 2003. I added 2 pages to the Journal
on July 20, 2003. The story of the miracles that made it possible
for me to publish Codependence: The Dance of
Wounded Souls. A new page with testimonials for the
Joy2MeU Journal. I added 4 pages to the Journal
on November 8, 2002.
I added 1 page and two pictures
of me to the Journal on October 5,
2002. I added 7 pages to the Journal
on July 9, 2002. The Update below about the
evolution of the Journal was added March 14, 2002
I felt Joy. I felt empowered and excited
about life. I felt as if I had achieved a level of closure
and acceptance about the relationship that was over and that I had
some energy and focus to create some really good things in my life.
Thus the idea to publish my next two books in installments came up while
walking on the beach." It has turned out that this Journal has been
about much more than just the publication of those books.
Those books are: The Dance of the
Wounded Souls Trilogy - Book I "In The Beginning . . ." and Wounded Souls
Dancing in The Light. A brief description
of the first, and an explanation of the status of the second is below.
First however I want to explain a little about what this Journal
has become. When I originally started publishing these
articles in the Joy2MeU Journal, it was because I thought I would
need to create enough content to make the Journal attractive to potential
subscribers. The Journal has turned into something quite different
from my original vision of it, and because the story of my recovery
and Spiritual journey expanded to include a personal intimate journal
about my process over the last 3 years, there is plenty of content in
that Journal for people who resonate strongly with my writing.
Thus, moving this series of articles (which has been expanded from 4
to 6 articles) to Joy2MeU to make them available to the public as
a whole makes sense. As I wrote in February of 2001: The Journal also includes special articles,
a series of articles on the 12 steps, a page where I share my daily
prayers and affirmations, and even a short story that I wrote years
ago. It has grown into a great deal more writing that I had envisioned
- as well as taking a lot longer to complete than I thought in the beginning.
In other words, it has been an adventure full of surprises - not
unlike my life since I started recovery. Anyone who finds my writing helpful and
enjoyable, will get their money's worth from this Journal. At least
that is what I feel. ;-) My concept of this book has been in transition. In a short
note to Journal subscribers in February 2002, I stated: I started to write that process (how to) level book about my
approach to the inner child healing work over 2 and a half years
ago, and then became stalled. I wasn't actually stalled so
much as I didn't have a clear vision of how it was going to come together.
In retrospect I know now, that I needed to write the Recovery Process for inner child healing
and Emotional Honesty and Emotional
Responsibility series of articles, as well as other individual articles
and the pages for the Journal, in order for my personal recovery to
go through a tremendous transformational period, and to facilitate
a deeper understanding of the process. It was also very important for me to learn some important lessons
from doing telephone counseling (which I started in March 2000)
that are going to impact the structure and approach of that book.
As usual, more will be revealed to me when it is time for me to know.
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" . . . It was quite surprising when
I woke up the next morning feeling great and remembering the dreams.
The dreams were not of a symbolic or literally significant nature as
important dreams sometimes are - rather they were about two ideas
that I will probably never pursue. The dreams them self were
not important - what was important is how I felt when I woke up from
them.
Publishing those two books was
the primary purpose and reason for the creation of this Journal
as I understood it in the beginning. I was at a time when I needed
desperately to bring in some more income and in taking inventory to see
what assets I had, realized that people were always asking about those
next two books and when they would be published. Since I did not
have the financing, or any publishing company interested, to get them
published - I started publishing them in the only place I could, online.
The Story of "Joy to You
& Me" First Issue Joy2MeU Journal
Current situation
"I have not at this time, made any changes to the Journals
Index page. As I mention above, the periodical issues paradigm
I originally envisioned for this Journal has been pretty much out the
window for a while now. I am really not paying much attention
to that perspective of this body of work any more. If for instance,
I end up finishing up the 30 Days in the Desert series (which is now
taking 5 parts to get me to the completion of treatment instead of 4)
and get to the confrontation in Sedona article prior to me getting back
to some other aspects of the Journal - I will publish it when it is
done rather than withhold it until the last issue of this Journal as
it was scheduled for. I don't at this time, even think in terms
of a last issue of this Journal. I will keep writing here for as
long as it is serving my process - so it is a probability that this is a
never ending story. At least until my life changes dramatically
in some way."
I am removing any mention of how
many issues there are to this Journal from this page now, because
I no longer see this body of work as being finite. I don't see
it as infinite either - but it will last as long as it is working to
support my recovery and growth. I also do not envision raising
the subscription rate even if there ends up being much more material published
here than originally envisioned. In fact, there is more published
here now than I originally thought possible. Here is a quote from
a page that I am posting on my web site today, the first article of a
series.
Joy2MeU Journal Mini-Newsletter - March 11, 2002
This is the first of 6 (possibly
7) articles about the Twelve Steps. In March of 2002 as I was preparing
to move the bulk of the book I wrote and published online about
the September 11th Attack on America to my Joy2MeU Journal
(as I forewarned in my January 2002 Update) I decided to move this series
of articles to the regular Joy2MeU web site. I
realized that - though the foundation of my work is the ancient Spiritual
Principles and process that I learned by working a twelve step program,
and I talk about those principles and that process to some extent in
all of my writing - I did not have very much written here on my regular
web site that actually talks about the steps themselves.
As I say in this quote, I thought I needed to create
extra content for this Journal. Besides the two future books,
I also knew in the beginning that I would tell the story of my recovery / Spiritual path. The surprise
for me - that has provided a great deal of content I wasn't planning
on - was that I ended up also writing a personal, intimate journal
of my recovery process since the start of this Journal. It has
turned out to be an invaluable part of my personal growth process.
There are now 75 content pages in this Journal (minus
the ones in the First Journal Issue, the Attack chapters still available
on Joy2MeU, and 2 others that have been added to the regular web
site, that means 57 are only available in the password protected site.)
How many more will come is unknown - but I would be not be surprised
if there were not a couple of dozen. So, yes I do believe it is
a body of work that has value to someone who resonates strongly with my
writing. I know it has been very valuable to me - and will continue
to be. A perfect part of my unfolding path. ~ Robert 3/14/02" . . . I will tell it all - or
at least a large chunk of it. My Spiritual Journey for the
last 15 years. But I will not tell it all in this issue.
What I will share in this issue is a somewhat fleshed out outline of
the milestones along my path. It will be fleshed out enough to
touch on the relevant information that is needed for telling the story
of how "Joy to You & Me" came about. It will provide a framework
for the telling of the other stories - the leaps of faith, the incredible
miracles, the breakthroughs and breakdowns, the exquisite Joy and the
incredible pain - that have been a part of my path. In effect,
I guess I will be doing a partial autobiography in installments in this
Journal also. The Path of a Mystic Messenger - or something like
that."
The series of articles on my Spiritual
Path ended up being called: The Path of One Recovering Codependent
~ the dance of one wounded soul. In the course of writing
the first six issues of this Journal, that series has grown and expanded
greatly. It now includes not only the story of my Spiritual Path
over the 15 years prior to my beginning this Journal - but also a personal
intimate journal of my process over the almost 2 years since the Journal
begin. It ended up being a lot more personal and intimate than I
had envisioned when I started writing, but then these last two years turned
out a lot different than I ever imagined - and most likely will be part
of an autobiography one day. (Actually, it is already part of an
autobiography, but one that only exists in this Journal and may never be
published elsewhere - as I like to say, More Will Be Revealed.)
~ The Story of "Joy to
You & Me" First Issue Joy2MeU Journal
The Dance of the Wounded Souls Trilogy
- Book I "In The Beginning . . ."
A magical, mystical, Spiritual fable
which includes a history of the Universe unlike any which has ever
been written. In this book, my Higher Self appears to me as a
Unicorn that gallops off of a picture on the desk of my casita in Taos
New Mexico one snowy evening in January 1989. We then go on an
adventure through time and space, exploring the meaning and purpose of
life. The book is divided into 8 sections of 3 parts - 2 chapters of
the narrative story line and one segment of The History of the Universe.
The first free issue includes 2 sections of this book. This will
be publication of my final draft version of the book (final draft meaning
before my editor gets her hands on it.)
Wounded Souls Dancing
in The Light
"Empowerment through Internal Boundaries"
This is a process level ('how to') book that I began publishing
in the second issue. The innovative, powerful, and life-changing
formula that I have developed, through my own recovery and in my therapy
practice, shares a process for learning how to have internal boundaries
that can enable one to start Truly Loving self. This book will
detail the ABC's of the tools and techniques that an individual can follow
to change their relationship with self and life into one that empowers
the individual to be able to stop being a victim and learn how to relax
and enJoy life as a Great and Exciting Adventure rather than a punishment
to be endured. As I stated in the beginning of this Journal:
this will be a raw, first draft version of this book - and it will probably
not be completed by the final issue of this Journal.
January 2004 - I realized
that I had not added the latest development to the saga of this book
to this page. Here it is, and I think it is self explanatory.
The chapters of this book were
written in 1999 - and my concept of this book has been evolving since that
time. The material here will still be a part of this process book when
it is ever finished evolving - but I think the structure and point of view
may be different. There is writing in these pages that is exclusive
to this version. Most of it however, is probably something that is
part of various web pages of my site.
In my January 2002 Update, I talk
about the online book I had just completed about the Attack on
America, and note that it feels to me as if I will be combining that
online book and Dancing in the Light in some way.
What feels more likely right now, is that I will be combining
much of what I wrote here with what I have been thinking of as my
next book: Codependency Recovery: Wounded Souls Dancing
in the Light.
I am not sure how this book is
going to evolve at this point. I have now moved the book I published
online Attack on America - A Spiritual Healing Perspective
to this Journal and only the first three chapters are available on the
Joy2MeU site. There is actually now the equivalent of a book
and a half on the Journal site that will probably end up becoming this
process level book in combination with material from articles on my
web site. I have no idea when I will be focusing on this book again.Joy to You & Me and Joy2MeU Update January 2002
- Newsletter 2
Book 2: A Dysfunctional Relationship with
Life Authors
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