Rumi on Death
I Died as a Mineral I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When …
Interfaith Bot
As regulars here know, last year I added a search bot to this site, hosted by ServiceSpace. This helps search through the over 2,300 articles here to answer questions with a conversational-style response. Recently, ServiceSpace …
Spam Update
Still having an issue with most emails going to spam. A reader sent me some great tech tools that revealed the issue is with GMail. GMail says: 1) Mark incorrectly classified messages as Not Spam …
Personality as Trauma
I’ve observed that we naturally develop roles or patterns of behaviour. Like we learn how to ride a bike, or we learn how to be a parent or a worker or a lover. These patterns …
Divinely Human Stages
This is a followup to my review of CC Leigh’s book Becoming Divinely Human, exploring her descriptions of awakening. My model of the stages of development in consciousness is based on the transcendent shifts within. …
Healing Through Spiritual Alignment interview
Dorothy Rowe joined Gareth Duignam on his Endless Possibilities Podcast again. I’ve written several articles about Dorothy’s work over the years. Loved this conversation in particular, on the roots of healing. Illness is from “some …
Trauma Post-Enlightenment
When I use the word “trauma“, you may think of the effects of an accident or assault. However, we now know that trauma isn’t what happened, it’s how we responded to it. Anything that causes …
Becoming Divinely Human
I’ve been reading the book Becoming Divinely Human by CC Leigh. She’s a teacher in Trillium Awakening (formerly Waking Down). Saniel Bonder founded Waking Down in the ‘90s. His primary influence was the infamous Adi …
Truth Has No Sides Podcast 1
Recently, I had a conversation with Charley Johnson for his new podcast, Truth Has No Sides. I met Charley during the satsang in Utah about 5 years ago. I shared a bit of background, then …
Relationships Anew
In a recent article, Relationships – Towards a New Model, I spoke of relationships founded on love rather than meeting unmet needs. There’s more to explore. When we move past relationship karma, we can have …
The True Felt Sense
In this article, Gemma Carroll talks about the felt sense and the nature of the somatic processing of stress and trauma. She’s a practitioner of the Embodied Processing* that I’ve been studying. Pendulation between touching …
Where Am I?
One of the curious questions a teacher or healer may ask you is “Where are you?” Where do you experience yourself as being? This can be a big clue to our stage of development, but …