Dancing the Dream
“Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion, …
Peace Technology
I always find it interesting when research is published in peer-reviewed science journals that is paradigm-busting. “The hypothesis definitely raised some eyebrows among our reviewers. But the statistical work is sound. The numbers are there. …
Auras
Auras are what we might call the perception of the light bodies or purushas, their perceptual appearance to our eyes. Such perception is easily triggered through simple exercises and practice but doesn’t serve much value …
The Dao
Recently, I’ve seen a couple of books on the Tao Te Ching, originally written by Lao Tzu some 2,500 years ago. Just 81 short verses, it is widely translated in many versions. The 2 versions …
The Goal of Enlightenment
For many years, my top goal was enlightenment. Until I had kids, it trumped all aces, even career. And then one day, I saw that there was no such thing as the enlightenment I had …
Questions
Sometimes, what is more important than answers is questions. Answers will take you into the mind. Questions can take you past the mind. Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Am I? Who …
Conversation
On the journey of awakening, many aspects of the person fall away. Here and there, we can run into unexpected and amusing consequences for a short while during adaptation. Simple things like routine conversation can …
The Power of Forgiveness
“Most questions of “why” or “how” indicate the need to escape from facing the truth of what is happening. Looking at what is, is the fastest way to understand… Thus, trying to figure out “why” …
One Process
A question from a good friend drew out an important point. Recently, I’ve written still more about the way reality can change in posts like “What Changes?” Yet it doesn’t matter what model or way …
The Shadow Knows
In the opening of Within Bliss, I joked about the ‘spiritually positive’. Some New Age and New Thought communities are rife with ‘Think Positivists’, the idea that if you think happy you’ll be happy. Now, …
Fear vs Intuition
In a recent article, Dr. Judith Orloff talks about “How to Tell the Difference Between Fear and Intuition“. At first, the title surprised me as these are in many ways polar opposites. But then I …
What Changes?
When we look around us, it’s not hard to notice that everything changes. People come and go. That nice forest is now condos. Mountains slowly crumble into the sea. But what is it that’s changing? …