In the current time, consciousness is rising. This is increasing access to our hidden trauma (our unresolved experiences) but also means it’s coming up for people who don’t know how to process it. This leads …
Roger Penrose suggested the Andromeda Paradox because of the Rietdijk–Putnam argument from Special Relativity in Physics. 2 people are passing each other on the street. Both look up at the Andromeda galaxy at the same …
I’ve talked before about how the Yoga Sutra describes our tendency to grasp at what we want and to avoid what we don’t. It describes this resisting life as the roots of suffering. This response …
About 15 years ago, I wrote an article about types of meditation, based on their brain EEG signature. There has been a tendency for scientists, and indeed many people, to see all meditations as equivalent. …
What is the Natural Self? First, let’s explore the words. Natural: a state of being relaxed, with no resistance to the present moment. We discover we are the present. Self: our sense of who we …
There is a process of integration and embodiment that takes place after shifts and stage changes. And after big releases. We shouldn’t think of embodiment as something for later, that we’ll deal with it at …
If you ask the average person about happiness, they may describe excitement or thrills. Perhaps they know satisfaction from accomplishment. But this is only a glimmer of happiness. Short, passing experiences. Often, we have a …
We were exploring compassion in a class recently. Like mindfulness, many people have ideas about compassion and what it looks like. But often this is cognitive; compassion as a concept. Many spiritual approaches dismiss the …
Recently, I’ve had a growing awareness of karma completing in some areas of life. The unresolved part ends, leaving only memory, a neutral history. This amplifies the distinction between what happened (the past, memory) and …
“Integrated is the expression of knowledge, an assembly is significant in unity, united are their minds while full of desires. For you I make use of the integrated expression of knowledge. By virtue of unitedness …
An archetype serves as a prototype for other things. In Jungian psychology, they describe archetypes as patterns in the collective we can draw from. For example, the hero, the maiden, or the wizard. Many personality …
There is the old saying: What you put your attention on grows stronger. This may seem abstract or New Age, but it’s a fundamental principle. If we consider that the world arises from and in …
