Where Am I?
One of the curious questions a teacher or healer may ask you is “Where are you?” Where do you experience yourself as being? This can be a big clue to our stage of development, but …
Styles of Coping
Power is a very curious thing. Often, we equate it with the masculine. However, in its essential nature, power or Shakti is feminine. She drives nature. She is our life force or prana. She is …
Responsibility Climbs
One thing about the spiritual path is what Ken Wilbur called “growing up.” This refers to maturing as a person. And that includes taking responsibility for our behaviour. This vs the ego blaming others for …
Ways of Knowing
I’ve talked about ways of knowing in several articles. For example, The Seeing Seer, which explores the stages of knowing towards cognitions of reality. Or On Knowing, which explores the difference between conceptual knowing, experimental …
Masks and Roles
Some suggest the personality is entirely shadow-based. However, just like the ego, it has a natural function. But it can have heavy overlays. It’s better to see our personality as a blend of laws of …
A Map of Embodied Awakening
Recently, I was reminded of an article by CC Leigh. I’ve read some of her work over the years and always enjoyed her perspective. She’s a teacher in Trillium Awakening (previously Waking Down). Also a …
Updates
In July, I co-designed a new logo and gradually updated it on the website, social media, etc. I also changed the home page banner (dawn from my place) and tweaked a few settings. I found …
The Trinity in Tantra
Kavitha Chinnaiyan posted about Tripura on Facebook. She is an MD and teacher in a non-dual lineage of tantra. “The primordial principle of Śrī Vidyā is Tripura – the three-fold, which refers to the supremacy …
Sustaining Circumstances
Recently, I recognized another circumstance in resolving karma. For various reasons, when some karma completes, we may not let it go. Put another way, even though the consequences have completed, there is some aspect that …
Story Follows State
“Story follows State.” This is a term from polyvagal theory. What it means is the state of our nervous system drives our perception and that drives our narratives. In the most obvious example, when we …
The Quality of What We Believe
Being able to distinguish truth from distortion is a key ability that can develop in our teen years when the prefrontal cortex (forebrain) comes online. However, we may lean more on peers or those we …
More on the Records
Since writing the first article on the Akashic Records, more has unfolded. I’m nowhere near a place where I can offer it as a service and it’s not clear if I ever will directly. But …