In With The Bad
Our mind naturally categorizes experiences. This helps us make choices, feel safe, and in control. However, this habit of compartmentalization and labelling can become an issue when we get too black and white, too polarized. …
Frustration with a Spiritual Path
It’s quite common to become frustrated with our spiritual progress. Especially if we’re not seeing obvious results while we see others awaken or have fancy experiences. We may regret we didn’t do “the right thing” …
End Times
Some are talking like we’re in end times: climate change with crazy weather, floods and fires, a global pandemic, unrest, exaggerated political polarities, growing financial inequality, and more. Such events have marked the end of …
Gunas – Inherent and Infused
The gunas are the 3 fundamental qualities whose blend gives everything its basic characteristics. I talked about their origins here. They are: Sattva: purity or clarity of the flow (golden) Rajas: movement itself, energy or …
The Primary Contractions
Over the years on the blog I’ve talked about the primary centres for release: what Adyashanti called Head, Heart, & Gut. They’re often the primary identifications of the individual ego, what I’ve also called the …
Yoga Sutra 2: Q&A
After the Yoga Sutra talk, I did a Q&A with students. These were on the broader implications of Yoga philosophy. To simplify the permissions process for making this public, I’ve placed a graphic over everyone …
Yoga Sutra Talk
Dr. Shelley Thomas, a language professor at Middle Tennessee State University, offers a class on awakening. They cover some of the primary world literature on the topic. Previously, they’ve invited academics to speak on the …
Steps of Unfolding Divinity
In our fourth conversation, Andrew Hewson and I touched on stages of unfolding Divinity but didn’t detail the process. I thought a list of possible steps of unfolding Divinity in our awareness would be useful. …
Conversations with Andrew Hewson
This is a list of conversations I’ve had with Andrew Hewson for your reference. Disclaimer: the intention of these conversations is to deepen understanding of the spiritual process. It is not an endorsement of Andrew’s …
A Conversation with Andrew Hewson on Awakening and GC
Andrew Hewson and I had a conversation on the stages of enlightenment a year ago. We’ve decided to start a new series going into the stages in more detail. In this first in the series, …
Finding Balance
There’s a curious dance between letting go of control and taking responsibility for our life. So often, ego’s are trying to control while avoiding responsibility. Or taking responsibility for what it can’t control. Balance comes …
How We Are
What are the primary things that influence our life experience? 1) Unresolved baggage (experiences) from prior lives drives us forward into new lives to complete them. 2) Development of Atman (consciousness/ presence) and Sattva (purity, …