Redemptive Love
“While transcendent wisdom is realized by dropping one’s attachment to body and mind, redemptive love is an infinite embrace of the entire human condition.” “It comes as a gift and as a grace bestowed upon …
Empath Empowerment
As we’re in the energy age, it should be no surprise that there is a major rise in the presence of energy healing. You’ll now find all sorts of different energy modalities. Even a bit …
Empty Space
OOps – a theme update has broken a couple of things, including rendering the Pages on here blank. The blog section is fine but you’ll have to be patient while I await the fix. Update …
Belief or Experience by example
When you explore spiritual subjects, it’s useful to be alert to where the person is coming from. Do they seem to be speaking from belief or experience? If from experience, what stage do they seem …
A Second God Realization
There’s a process I’ve noticed with some people recently that bears noting. That is of a rediscovery of God in Brahman. To explain this, lets roll back a bit. As has been noted by teachers …
Stages of Development in Consciousness
aka higher states of consciousness or stages thereof One of the most popular articles on this blog over the years has been on states of consciousness. First as an outline of the 7 states of …
The Importance of Proper Technique
In the spiritual market these days is a plethora of things people call “meditation”. We may think of them as largely equivalent but in fact there are huge differences. Practised long term, they’ll bring us …
Food and Addiction
I’ve occasionally explored subjects like craving and food here. Several articles have come up recently on the topic I thought interesting. Firstly, in North America, research lead to an anti-fat movement in the 1960’s. We …
The Kingdom of Heaven
Recently, I heard that the Kingdom of Heaven was mentioned 80 times in the Bible. It was a key teaching of Jesus, that the Kingdom of Heaven was within. Not in the sky, not “out …
Varna Shiksha and Sanskrit Gender
A very old text on Sanskrit grammar was found by accident, unlabelled and mis-catalogued in a university library in Mysore. Named the Varna Shiksha, it describes a number of qualities of the letters of the …
The Lords Prayer
If you’ve grown up in the west, you’ve probably been exposed to The Lords Prayer – perhaps quite regularly and for many years. The best known version is this, with only spelling updates from the …
Seeing the One through the Many
In a December conference call, Lorne made a few comments I quite enjoyed. On Self Realization “It’s something that sees itself when we stop looking.” On Unity “Through the appearance of many, the one can …