Karma Post-Enlightenment
Karma is a curious bird. It means action, what we’d call energy in physics. Yet most people think about it more in terms of our baggage – the karmic consequences that are active in our …
Month: October 2014
Divine Beings
A subject that comes up periodically is the distinction between types of subtle beings. I reviewed them recently here. Many people first experience the beings closer to their physical presence. Perhaps the dead, or nature …
Cosmic Stages
I’ve written before about the stages of childhood development. Using the Alexander model from psychology, we can describe the dominant stages of: Body & Senses (learning to sense and walk and talk) Desires & Emotions …
Our Natural Potential
For those of you in the Vancouver area, I’ll be giving a talk during the Centre for Spiritual Living‘s Sunday service @ 11am on Sunday, October 26th. Here’s the blurb: In this talk, David will …
Signs and Omens
Many of the worlds traditions include some way to read “omens”. But much of that has degraded into superstition and a sense of victim-hood. There are lots of books floating around listing meanings of events, …
The Divided Soul
The idea that the soul can ever be divided or broken is false. It may well feel like that for some but the soul is that point of awareness in awareness aware of itself at …
God Only Knows
BBC has recently done an “Impossible Orchestra” of well-known musicians and singers for a blended version of the Beach Boy’s song God Only Knows. (from ’66, 48 years ago) That’s London’s Alexandra Palace Theatre, home …
Lost Pingbacks
Just a little update if you happen to use this sites interlinking. One of the WordPress features I’ve made heavy use of on this site over the years is internal Pingbacks, also called linkbacks or …
Lorne and Lucia Retreats
I was recently on another Lorne and Lucia retreat. As usual, the presence of the gathered group was very powerful and helped trigger another opening. It’s evolved a great deal since I first started going …
More Time!
Many people feel a lot of pressure on time. That there is never enough time to get what we “need” to do done. Not to mention some time for ourselves, our families, our friends, that …
Cosmic Variation
I’ve spoken a little lately about the Cosmic Body. How all physical bodies are actually one body, expressing itself in a myriad of ways. One example I can use here is this form. I mentioned …
Who Are We?
This came up in discussion on another blog. I thought it useful to raise here. It’s a curious dynamic. Who we are under the mind, emotions and intellect is bliss. I’ve seen that overtly demonstrated …