The Context of Reality
For the average person these days, they’d say their mind is in their body and the universe is “out there”, around them. Inside the body is the mind, outside is the world. For someone with …
A Quiet Revealing
I was sent a link to this blog today, an anonymous experience record. He asks that we read the bottom post first and progress up. Not a light read but some nice gems in there. …
The Dark Night(s)
Reading the spiritual literature in most traditions, you’re sure to run into some references to an emotionally difficult patch or spiritual crisis. Recently, St. John’s term “Dark Night of the Soul” has come to be …
Lag…
Apologies for the lag in posts. I’ve begun the book project again, probably a trilogy. We’ll see how it goes. Davidya PS – it will include many of the articles here but also quite a …
The Personal
In How to Know God, I talked about the Personal mode of experiencing. Lets explore that a little more deeply. In the west the majority of people believe in angels. Yet if someone were to …
How to Know God
In a discussion group, someone was asking how to have a relationship with God without the experience. In our western culture, we don’t have the common devotional examples they have in the east. In traditional …
What Wakes Up?
A recent question brought up another perspective on something we’ve talked about before, so I thought I’d share what arose. What is it that wakes up? What becomes enlightened? Awareness is already awake to Itself. …
Let Go, Just Be
“Don’t try to hold onto what is realized, be what is realized. You cannot maintain realization or sustain it. In order for it to always be, you must be it yourself—in your humanity.” – Adyashanti …
Why Do We Have A Karmic Backlog?
In a forum discussion, the following point arose I thought worth sharing: Why do we end up with such a backlog of karma? Before we explore the answer, it would be good to review the …
Get Out Of The Way
From a House Concert I was at a few weeks ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5JCRWuOnrU Michelle Briggs – singing and organizing the fundraising event Brock Tully – on Harmonica, and the man behind the World Kindness Concert Bill …
The Puzzle of Life
Life can be quite the puzzle sometimes. In one moment, our desires can be fulfilled in miraculous ways. In another moment, we meet nothing but barriers. And in another, what we had built seems to …