The 8th Fire – a film
The 8th Fire, a film on First Nations prophesies Trailer web site: http://www.the8thfire.org/ Evidently, the 8th Fire is the fire within… “this beautiful movie inspired by a “Vision” of peace in a world at the …
Intention requires
Just listening to the second short free workshop by Lynne McTaggart on Intention. http://www.theintentionworkshops.com/ While they are an intro to a workshop intensive series coming, they cover some great material. In the talk she suggests …
Insight part 2
Last month, I wrote in Stroke of Insight about Jill Bolte Taylor’s conscious experience of a stroke. A fascinating presentation she gave at TED. While I disagreed with her understanding of the experience (brain hemispheres …
Next Life
Next Life by Woody Allen “In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s …
A new lay spirituality
A friend forwarded this to me from the Conversations with God folks. Dalai Lama on a New Spirituality: “I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality. This new concept …
The evolving I
Tom has a great quote by Ramana Maharishi back on his blog. He talked about the difference between the false ‘I’ thought [idea] and the deeper true ‘I’ of absolute being. At first we seem …
What Awakes
In a discussion back at Tom’s blog, a fellow with bi-polar was asking about illness relative to spiritual progress. This turns out to be a perfect example of the difference between experience and being. If …
Growing the Group
In the recent post on Groups, I observed the key role of groups in the world. The group trumps the individual. Even without that awareness, we have laws to uphold a standard for example. To …
Group Think or Group Be
Recent discussions here illuminate something to consider, the role of the group. During the process of awakening, we lose the sense of ego, the pain body, then the whole sense of identity. The whole idea …
The Bee
Is the Bee just a be or is he as he sees? Is his buzz who he was or is it just because? How we see the little bee Is both the bee and me. …
The Practice
The discussion in Spirit continues on Tom’s blog. Tom comes back to the question of practice. What role does a practice really have in our path if its really Self waking to Itself? What is …
Egos and Cults
A few days ago, I posted an article about recently published research in the American Journal of Hypertension that demonstrated meditation as a useful tool in lowering blood pressure. Frankly, I’m surprised there is still …