Seven Factors of Awakening
I ran into a Wikipedia article on the Seven Factors of Awakening (sapta bodhyanga) from Buddhism. This is a different tradition than mine, but one that points in the same direction. I found some good …
A Process Model of Awakening
Gareth of Endless Possibilities interviewed awake scientist Pierce Salguero. Pierce has proposed a non-stages model of awakening with 4 “threads” that we might think of as styles of experiencing the process. It’s a very inclusive …
We Are
We are emanations of the Divine We are uncreated We are one We are consciousness We are cosmic, even the body We are love We are eternal We are the universe We are joy We …
Questions about Existence and Creation
Recently, a reader had some questions I thought worth sharing. I’ve updated the responses for context. Q: What is the difference between existence and creation? A: Existence is a sense created by awareness noticing itself. …
Cracked Open
In this conversation, Riyaz Motan, Adyashanti, John Prendergast, and Johnathan Gustin explore the awakening journey with serious illness and facing our mortality. Having been through a round of this myself, along with the premature death …
Self or No-Self
We’ve all been through shifts in developmental stages, be it from toddler to school-aged or perhaps into Unity. Stage shifts can be significant milestones as our sense of who we are changes, and with it, …
Practices
In the recent post on Types of Meditation, I discussed three types of practices and said I would adopt the model. I’ve updated that part of the Recommendations page. I thought it would be useful …
Our Natural Potential Audiobook
Some of you have asked me to do an audio book in my voice. There would be advantages to that, but I don’t have a controlled environment to record in, nor do I have the …
The Highly Sensitive Person, Empaths, & Trauma
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 …
Now or Not?
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 …
Style of Being
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 …
Types of Meditation
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. …