The Power of Speech
In both spiritual circles and popular expressions, we find a number of sayings that suggest something important about our voice. Always speak the sweet truth. Sticks and stones… Never speak ill of another. Thy word …
Wither Goeth Ego?
If you read much spiritual literature from different traditions, you’ll quickly find a plethora of conflicting information about human awakening. The main issue is that we tend to think, and some teachers encourage, that awakening …
Omniscience
Omniscience is a very big subject. (laughs) It is all knowing. But not about knowing all things. It is about knowing all knowing. Total knowingness. This can be very hard for the mind to grasp. …
Good Resistance
I talk a lot here about resistance. How we can recognize it and how to allow and let it go. How some will call it stress or karma or identification. But we should not demonize …
The Evolution of Evolution
An interesting article in a recent New Scientist magazine. What research is uncovering is that most evolution is NOT taking place “vertically” through inheritance from ancestors. Genes are also transferred “horizontally” between organisms near each …
Life
Apologies for the lag in posts. I have a cue lined up of articles but life has brought some unexpected curves lately. Very nice ones but it’s kept me extra busy. Davidya
I am the Stadium
Jim Carrey, speaking at an Eckhart Tolle event. He speaks about intention, why we’re here, how everything is happening inside you, and that I am everything and it’s so much fun… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSTHPABoHc Jim shares an …
Awake Asleep
My early understandings of higher states of consciousness and enlightenment came from various sources but the one clearest to me was the one in Campbell’s 7 States of Consciousness. In that model, the experience of …
Remembering Spirit
Occasionally, I have written about Deep Memory, the subtle structure of being itself. At it’s most fundamental, it is Veda, pure knowledge. In prior posts, I’ve mentioned the value of spiritual study. In essence this …
A Drop of Flash
There is a rather distinctive experience that happens on the journey of awakening. A blinding white flash that obliterates all experience for a short time. I’ve seen it described with waking, with the unity switch, …
Dawning Now
From a discussion in another forum on the value of talking about a coming new age: I agree that a focus on the future or on the past is missing the point. However a lot …
Deep Retreat
Apologies for the lag in posts. I spent a week on retreat and it’s taking a little time to get caught up. The retreat with LornLucia (a name symbolic of their unity) was quite distinct …