Age of Sorrow, Age of Wakefulness
A friend sent me this: Sorrow has been a constant companion for many of us, and yet we are content with the mind’s interpretation of what it is. What if sorrow is not what it …
Sacred Gifts
“There are 2 very significant events in your life. One is when you are born; the other is when you discover why.” –unknown Last weekend, I took an excellent workshop called Discover Your Sacred Gifts. …
10 Spiritually Transmitted Diseases
Mariana Caplan is a Psychotherapist and PhD who has written several books I’ve not read, like Eyes Wide Open: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path and Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims …
Breaking
Awakening isn’t what’s so damn difficult. The difficult part is cutting the legs out of the super structure of our own illusion. Let your heart break, you’re supposed to fail at this. There’s nothing wrong …
108 Reasons to Seek Enlightenment
For fun, I thought I’d see if I could find 108 good reasons to want to be enlightened. It turned out to be easy. These are essentially side effects of purification and development so are …
The Rational Heart
We pride ourselves in being rational people living in a rational community. But are we? In Chapter 6 of Entangled Minds, Dean Radin raises the “rational man” issue. We assume that science is a rational …
We’re Entangled
I’ve finally had a chance to begin reading Dr. Dean Radin’s book Entangled Minds. He’s a long-term scientific researcher of psi (psychic ability) now with the Institute of Noetic Sciences. His history includes Bell Labs, …
What is Eternal?
As our spiritual nature unfolds, we begin to experience things that appear eternal. They appear unbounded in time. At its highest layers, creation is a nested series of infinite virtual space-times, each in a self-aware …
Dying Awake
I’ve heard teachers I respect say different things about what happens when you die (drop the body) post-enlightenment. Something I read recently discussed the variety and I realized a resolution to the differences. Before we …
The Foundation of Belief
In our western culture, many of us were raised in Abrahamic faiths like Christianity. But most of the teachers we meet had not experienced what they preached. They asked us to believe without evidence. Have …
The Third Descent
In this post, I’ll take little different global perspective of the process of evolution; the three descents. The first descent is what is typically called the soul. Awareness becomes aware of itself both globally and …
10 Ways to Save the World
I was reminded recently of guidance on saving the world. If we really want to save the world, first we have to save ourselves. Until we heal our own wounds and find inner peace and …