Pride and Humility
Back on the Aura Reading post, my joke about stubbornness lead to an off-line question. In sharing the response here, it evolved into something new. I wouldn’t describe stubbornness as necessarily associated with pride. It …
Karma?
In another non-spiritual forum, the idea of karma came up and some pretty poor ideas were expressed about it. I wrote an article to explain it. I’ve edited it here for context and supplemented it …
The Sacred Heart(s) (4+1)
When I was speaking with Denise Hagan after a small concert recently, I realized I’d left something off the recent article on Hridaya, the divine heart. And that is Hrit, the heart sub-chakra. For review, …
Aura Reading
Over the years on this blog I’ve talked about refined perception, the koshas or auras, and other aspects of our energetic nature. Recently I’ve been talking some about Rose Rosetree and chakra databanks. Rose has …
Mantra Use
I’ve talked here a number of times about mantras, but mainly in the context of meditation. Recently I talked some about how everything is vibration and thus Word or mantra. In the west, we see …
What is Awakening?
As I recently mentioned on Global News, we live in a remarkable time of spiritual development. Thousands of people around the world are awakening to their true nature as the cosmic Self or spirit. This …
Spirituality and Religion
“Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realize that having a belief system — a set of thoughts that you regard as the absolute truth — does not make …
A Compulsion to Recreate the Past
A long while back, I wrote a bit about Eva Pierrakos, a channel who brought out Pathwork in the 50’s through 70’s. I’ve only read a little of the material but found it quite insightful. …
Mantra and the World
As readers of this blog know, I recommend an effortless mantra meditation rather than one using concentration or similar. This is because a mantra is a sound with known effects. If we try to use …
Hridaya, the Divine Heart
In a number of ways, I’ve talked about the progression of higher stages of consciousness here. How Self Realization unfolds into Unity or Oneness. I’ve spoken about the post-personal stages of development, about the descent …
Intention in Meditation
The foundation of Yoga, indeed the foundation of spiritual practice is mantra meditation. Why? Because it’s the most reliable way for regular contact with source, with our own pure being. As regular readers know, I …
Foundations
I wanted to clarify our understanding from the foundational structure of the form of our personal existence – the foundations of our mind, emotions and body. Our energetic DNA we might say. Consider this a …