Jerry’s Writing
Over the years, I’ve mentioned discussions with Jerry Freeman, we’ve corresponded in comments here, and I’ve discussed his writing. Recently, he’s added his essays to his website (as PDFs), making them more accessible. If you …
Updates
Email Provider Issue: Some email subscribers continue to find their notifications going to spam. I’ve made changes that helped, but not consistently. I discovered that my email service provider had dramatically changed its tiers of …
Shakti Process
The model I use for the stages of enlightenment is a Shiva-based framework; the stages in our relationship with consciousness. It includes the stages of refinement, but more generally. Consciousness is the platform on which …
It’s All Energetic
Certainly, from the perspective of consciousness, it’s all consciousness. However, in the life, in the body, there’s a perspective where everything is energetic. Prior unresolved experiences and trauma disconnect many of us from our emotions …
The Space Beyond Even Oneness
I first met Sarah Taylor at SAND. In a recent article, Notes From The Space Beyond Even Oneness, she describes her shift from Unity into Brahman stage. For her, like Susanne Marie, the “gut” release …
Processing
When sensations and emotions arise, the natural response is to experience them, process the experience, and then return to centre. We see examples of this throughout the natural world. However, we humans often learn to …
Sleeping Elephants
Meditation instruction uses the analogy of sleeping elephants. The elephants are unresolved stress & trauma. When you meditate, you tiptoe through a field of sleeping elephants and reach a deep state. Sometimes, an elephant wakes …
Sleep or Samadhi?
Eva Müller posted an article on our meditation experience. During Meditations: Am I Sleeping or entering Samadhi? She raised key points about interpreting what’s happening in our subjective experience before samadhi is clear. It’s challenging …
Doing and Happening
Resistance is less something we do. It’s what happens based on our state. When we don’t want an experience, it triggers us, and we resist. Like breathing, this can be automatic. If there is some …
Superstrings And Memory
Physics This article is going to discuss similarities between physics and memory. However, it’s important to understand that physics studies the physical world. It does not study qualities of consciousness. (And no, consciousness is not …
Susanne Marie on the Gut Awakening
Over the years, I’ve talked about the gut awakening. This is part of a sequence that Adyashanti described as head, heart, gut. I jokingly called these the 3 am-egos. We could say the 3 levels …
Transformation
According to jyotish, we’re ending a 60-year cycle this year. It’s a time of endings and transformation. For those old enough to remember, the last time this happened was the mid-60’s. Also a time of …