Dancing in Light ~ Codependency Recovery

Introduction page to the Dancing in Light component of the Joy2MeU web site.

Joy2MeU is the web site of Robert Burney and his self publishing company Joy to You & Me Enterprises. Robert is a counselor and therapist who was guided to develop a pioneering approach to inner child healing / codependence recovery in his own codependency recovery of 20 years. His work has been compared to John Bradshaw’s “except much more spiritual” and portrayed as “taking inner child healing to a new level.” He is a Spiritual teacher and guide who has been described as “a metaphysical Stephen Hawking.” Robert Burney is the author of the Joyously inspirational Spiritual book Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls

This page offers information about a division of the Joy2MeU web site which includes two online books:

Codependency Recovery: Wounded Souls Dancing in The Light Book 2: A Dysfunctional Relationship with Life & Attack on America - A Spiritual Healing Perspective and Call for Higher Consciousness

It also includes articles from a series on: The True Nature of Love and a special article entitled: **My Spiritual Belief System and the New Millennium added in January & February 2013 ** The Law of Attraction - Misunderstood & Misinterpreted & The Metaphysics of Emotions - emotional energy is real

Table of Contents of Dancing in Light

The pages that are still available on the regular site are active links in this table of contents list. Below the table of contents are introductory descriptions of each of the 4 different works that make up Dancing in the Light. The pages that are exclusively available in Dancing in Light will be accompanied by a quote or quotes from the page - and in some cases section headings from that page. Skeleton pages of the chapters and articles moved to this division of Joy2MeU still exist on the regular site - and are linked on the site index and other pages - but only a few quotes from those pages and the section headings are included on those regular web site pages.

Codependency Recovery: Wounded Souls Dancing in the Light Book 2 A Dysfunctional Relationship with Life

“The work grew to something quite a bit beyond what I envisioned - and includes 15 chapters as of May 2003. I very happy with, and proud of, the chapters that grew out of this initial source. It has since grown into an in depth look at the phenomena of codependency on multiple levels - which in my opinion, is really much larger and more important than just a response to the silly article by Dr. Harley. So, in early May 2003 I am separating this article from most of the chapters that grew out of it - as I spoke of doing in my February 2003 Update Newsletter.

“I have mentioned in previous Updates that this online book pounced upon me when I wasn’t expecting it - and turned into something quite different than the article it started out to be. It has turned into quite a wonderful work in my opinion - and is so much larger and more important in my view than just a response to the internet article that sparked the writing. One of the things I am going to change is the title - which I really dislike. What I am thinking now, is that the chapters I have published will be part two (or book 2 perhaps) of the process level book I started to write several years ago: Codependency Recovery: Wounded Souls Dancing in The Light. Part 1, or the prequel, or whatever it is, will be focused on how to do the inner child healing / spiritual integration work.” - Joy2MeU Update February 2003

I am going to leave this article as it is presently named, as a two part web article, this page and the next one. I am changing the subtitle of part 2 slightly, but otherwise am not making any changes to either of these pages. There are some places in these two pages where I use some quite harsh language in reference to Dr. Harley and his beliefs - and I am going to leave that language as I wrote it. It doesn’t have anything to do with Dr. Harley personally, but rather with the type of ignorant and arrogant white male attitudes that he represents to me. Over a year later, and farther along in my recovery process, I probably would tone down that language some if I wrote these two pages today - not because my beliefs and views have changed, but because I wouldn’t be quite so reactive out of my own personal wounds. Sometimes it takes some harsh language to make a point however, and at this time I do not feel compelled to change the language as I originally published it. ~ Robert Burney May 2003 Chapter 1

Attack on America - A Spiritual Healing Perspective and A Call for Higher Consciousness

Here is a quote from the author’s foreword of the online book described above (I am using italics within this quote to call attention to the part of it that relates to the second online book that is now available in Dancing in Light section of Joy2MeU.com):

“In May of 2002, I started Chapter 4 of The codependency movement is NOT ruining marriages! with this note (which I have now removed from that chapter since I am including it here.) A Personal Note from Robert Burney This piece of writing has turned into another online book that I am publishing as it is written. I am feeling compelled to make another attempt to write what feels like a definitive exposition of my work and my beliefs from a different perspective than the online book about the terrorist attack of September 11th that I wrote last fall and early winter. That book turned into a very personally revealing work that also included what could be interpreted as by certain fanatical elements of at least 3 major religious groups as blasphemy, and by some secular groups as very controversial political opinions - which in part, was why I decided to move the bulk of that book to my Joy2MeU Journal.” - Codependency Recovery: Wounded Souls Dancing in The Light Book 2: A Dysfunctional Relationship with Life Author’s Foreword

As I say in this quote, the online book Attack on America - A Spiritual Healing Perspective and A Call for Higher Consciousness turned into a very personally intimate and controversial work - and I did move the last 8 chapters of Attack on America to my Joy2MeU Journal in March 2002. I originally left Chapters 2 and 3 on the regular site - but have now moved them to this Dancing in Light division of Joy2MeU.

Here is what I wrote about this online book in my January 2002 Update.

“I felt compelled by my intuitive guidance to write Attack on America: A Spiritual Healing Perspective & Call for Higher Consciousness. I started writing this online book on September 14th of this incredible year of 2001. On September 11th, I was going through my morning routine of checking my e-mail and went to one of the home pages I use to see what was happening in the world. There was a headline about some attack in New York City. I switched on the television and watched the smoke billowing out of the World Trade Center Towers - and knew that life had just changed in some irrevocable way. I also knew that the reason I had been blocked from doing any writing for the several weeks prior to the terrorist attack, was because it had not yet been revealed to me what I was going to be writing about. As has happened so often in my path, I got to let go of my expectations - my picture - of how I saw the immediate future unfolding (I no longer waste too much energy on trying to see beyond the next few weeks.) I knew that I was going to be writing about the events taking place, and their impact upon all of us watching in horror and shocked disbelief as our perspective of life as we know it shattered and collapsed in dust along with those towers. After a few days of watching events unfold while observing the many thoughts and ideas that were boiling and leaping to the surface in the churning, effervescent river of words and images flowing through my mind - and watching the fission and fusion of those mental images with each other, and with the emotional energy created by, connected to, spawning them; I sat down to start writing on the morning of the 14th. I sat down with some apprehension because I knew momentous events were unfolding - and that I was being called upon to take some risks. As soon as I saw where this writing was heading, I got scared. - Chapter 7 - Attack on America: A Call for Higher Consciousness When I started writing on September 14th, I thought that I was writing perhaps a 2 or 3 part article. The writing took on a life of it’s own however, and turned into an online book of over 100,000 words. I still do not know all of the levels of reasons for this piece of writing, or understand all of the levels that I do see. I think it is pretty good. I think it is important. And I knew from the beginning that it’s importance would probably not be reflected in how many people read it. It has been a little disappointing that very few people have actually read it - but on other levels it has been kind of a relief. I talk about some pretty advanced perspectives of recovery in this online book - and share some very advanced interpretations of the metaphysical levels of this process. I also disclose some things on a personal level to a degree that I have heretofore reserved for my Joy2MeU Journal in it’s password protected web site. And some of the opinions and interpretations that I share are controversial - to say the least. For all of these reasons, I am strongly considering transferring the bulk of the online book to my Joy2MeU Journal. I have tons of information on my web site already, and I am afraid that this online book might confuse new visitors - and distract, or block them, from getting the benefit of the more basic information on the site. My writing - both in style and length - is kind of an acquired taste I think, and this online book fits more easily into my Journal site for reading by the people who resonate strongly with my message and like my style of writing.” - January 2002 Update Newsletter 2

Now, in September 2005, the last 8 Chapters of this book are available someplace other than just the Joy2MeU Journal.

The True Nature of Love

The series of articles that I called The True Nature of Love, is some writing that is very close to my heart - because it was primarily written during one of the most trying times in my recovery.

“The True Nature of Love series is something I started writing in 1999 - shortly after I started my Joy2MeU Journal, and the personal journal I share in it. I started writing both of those bodies of work while I was homeless . . . " - Joy2MeU Update November 2002

When I published my book Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls at the end of 1995, I could not possibly have imaged that in 1999 I would be without a place to live for a period of 6 months.

“My healing path has taught me to keep letting go of the future and just do the next thing in front of me one day at a time. I am very grateful at the end of every month that enough money has manifested to pay the rent. And I am willing to accept being homeless again if that is the path my Higher Power lays in front of me. I spent 6 months in 1999 being homeless. Not on the street homeless - I had an office for my computer - but crashing on someone’s couch kind of homeless. The lessons in acceptance and patience and letting go that I learned during that time were sacred gifts. The level of faith that it forced me to access and practice, the depth to which I was forced to integrate my Spiritual belief system into my relationship with life, was a manifestation of Love from my Higher Power that I am now - and have been - reaping great benefits from.” - Joy2MeU Update January 2002 Newsletter 1

I am very grateful now for that trying period of time now as I say in the quote just above. I continued to live and write about my beliefs, at a time when it did not look like my life was working at all from an external perspective. By being forced to practice “acting as if” everything was unfolding perfectly at a time when it did not feel that way in a very big way, I was able to integrate my spiritual beliefs more deeply and profoundly into my relationship with life - and demonstrate my commitment to my Spiritual Path. I am including the last 4 of the articles in this series in this Dancing in Light section because of the metaphysical levels the writing ventured into exploring.

My Spiritual Belief System and the New Millennium

In December of 1999, I published this page on the site. Here is an explanation of it’s genesis.

“Recently I received an e-mail from an assistant editor of a Body Mind Spirit magazine in India called Life Positive. She stated that this was India’s only New Age type of magazine, and asked for my input for a cover article she was writing about the New Age and what the future held in the New Millennium. She included some questions about changing societies, culture, therapies and the overall evolution of human kind. I responded that there was no way I could answer her questions without explaining my Spiritual belief system - and that would involve a rather lengthy communication in order to provide a context for my answers. She e-mailed back that it was a long article and she would like to hear what I had to say. What follows on this page is that explanation of my belief system, and my answers to her questions. Bits and pieces of what follows is inserted, or alluded to, on various pages of this web site and in my book, and most of it is included in the first book of my Trilogy which is being published in the Joy2MeU Journal. I have not, however, written quite this direct and complete an exposition of my Spiritual Truth previously. So, as this millennium draws to a close, here is my Spiritual Belief system as it relates to the evolution of human kind and the New Millennium.”

This page does contain the most straight forward and complete explanation of my belief system that I have written.

*Some special offers - for subscription to Dancing in Light in combination with my book Codependence: Dance of the Wounded Souls and/or Telephone Counseling and/or the Joy2MeU Journal - are available on the Special Offers page.

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Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2017 by Robert Burney PO Box 98 Fallbrook CA 92028.

Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/Codependency_Recovery.htm