Basic Skills
It is remarkable to consider how poorly our culture supports living a healthy and happy life. It is full of things to enhance the ego drama, eat poorly, and suffer. Why have we built such …
Divine Surrender
If Awakening or Self Realization is not the goal, what is full enlightenment then? Lorne outlines the further development of God Realization and Unity in this series and Lucia touches on the nature of Surrender. …
Self Realization
Lorne and Lucia have posted a 3 part series [now merged] on Awakening / Self Realization / Cosmic Consciousness. For your convenience, I have posted them here with their notes from YouTube. Self realization has …
Lorn & Lucia
I’ve been keeping a bit of a secret. One of the teachers I’ve been working with had asked for no publicity. Just word of mouth. I’ve made only occasional references to their retreats or to …
Blessing
In a number of posts here, I talk of the power of gratitude. I even suggest it as one of the key steps in awakening. Gratitude steps us out of the mind and into the …
Being Seen
One of the natural drives of a person is to be seen. ‘Look at me!’ This is more obvious in extroverted personalities, but even for the introvert, there is a push to be seen, to …
What is Lost?
Sometimes we may feel we lose something. A job, a relationship, even a life. The greatest suffering for many people is someones death. But what is death? An ending? Of what? A form. Physics tells …
Heaven’s Bathroom
The discussion group continues to listen to Thich Nhat Hanh speak. Late on the third day he remarks that no one ever asks if you need to eat in heaven. He said “It is my …
Understanding Intuition
In another discussion, the subject of the intuition came up. Someone suggested it was just the sub-conscious. To me, sub-conscious is a poor term as it describes the subjective experience rather than the function. ‘Habit …
An Awakening
Over on Tom Stine’s blog, one of the commenters, Kevin, mentioned a book, The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Eternal Bliss by Vernon Howard. Tom had read it, describing it as odd but very …
How to Listen
Recently, the art of correct listening has come up several times here and elsewhere. As Nirmala observed, a spiritual teachers job is to point the student at what is already present. The student’s job on …
Money Troubles
A friend of mine is struggling with debt and asked for some advice. This was the response, edited for the medium. First, it’s useful to understand a few things. For one, the nature of money. …