E) Dr. Clyde Reid
I would like to thank Dr.Clyde Reid who was my mentor for so many years. Clyde Reid was a teacher who provided the intensity and focus needed to guide a person or group through the realms towards clarity and freedom. Clyde left this Earth several years ago after a decade of working with Cancer. I was given the honor of accompanying Clyde as his assistant on numerous HEALING THE SPIRIT workshops throughout the United States and Mexico. These years of my own deep inner work were supported by Clyde's vision of our ability to Heal The Spirit. Those of us who had a chance to work with Clyde remember fondly the fierce truth loving being who lived in that body.
DR. Clyde Reid worked as a psychotherapist with a private practice in Boulder and Santa Fe. He lectured and led workshops all over North America and Mexico. Clyde was the author of 12 books including "Dreams: Discovering Your Inner Teacher" and "Celebrate The Temporary." He taught at Union Theology Seminary, Boulder Graduate School, The Naropa Institute and Southwestern College. He founded and directed the Center for New Beginnings in Denver, Colorado.
Clyde was born on December 13, 1928 and died of leukemia in the year 2001.
Clyde wrote an essay ON SIMPLICITY in his last year. He had attended a workshop called "T'is a gift to be simple," based on the famous Shaker hymn of that title. Clyde was deeply moved by this message of simplicity. We would go to his small apartment and he would give us books which he knew he would no longer be using. He faced his death by dancing with simplicity.
Clyde wrote "Simplicity is a powerful basic principle of life, and yet it is largely ignored in modern culture. It is not just a life choice; it is a spiritual principle. It is basic to happiness, to contentment, to loving onself, to wholeness." Clyde ended that essay by speaking about Simplicity in Death:
When we consider that the human spirit does not remain tied to a disintegrating physical body buried in the earth, it becomes ridiculouos to invest large sums..." I have prepaid my cremation...I have compiled a list of "To Do When I Die" to help my children cancel payments and make other necessary busines arrangements. My address book has marked addresses of those friends who should be informed immediately of my memorial. Of course, there is some emotion that comes up as we think about and plan for our own deaths, and emotional moments for our families as we discuss these matters with them. But how much easier for everyone. Simplicity is an important spiritual principle, and it needs to extend into the realm of death as well as life."
And this is how Clyde lived and died...consciously...to the best of his ability. How wonderful to have known him.
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