The Illusion of Consciousness
In the process of shifting from being a me, identified with a body-mind, and becoming Atman, the cosmic Self, there is a series of stages. I typically describe this in terms of stages of development …
Exploring the Nature of Consciousness
I quite enjoyed this clip with some of the speakers for next months SAND conference in Italy, an attempt to bridge science and spirituality. As mentioned prior, I’ll be speaking at the larger SAND conference …
The Risen Christ
I heard a talk last Sunday on Palm Sunday and Easter. The talk of the risen Christ reminded me of how some people use the term Ascension. It’s a word I generally avoid as people …
The Inward Stroke
Life moves in cycles and seasons – sometimes it’s obvious and sometimes more quiet and gradual. There is even the larger arc of a life from youth to old age. If we’re in an outward …
Buddha at the Gas Pump Interview
Periodically on this blog, I mention an interview on Buddha at the Gas Pump. The host Rick Archer has been interviewing “ordinary spiritually awakening people” since 2009, although it took a few months for the …
NonDuality and the Divine
A friend of mine raised a series of reasons why he felt someone who considers themselves a “nondualist” in modern thinking might object to the Guides and Awakening video done by Kristin Kirk that I …
InterSpecies Communication
When we communicate with animals and plants, it’s not about about the physical. It’s not the body language and it’s not the words. Other species don’t use English or Spanish and body language can have …
Resolving Problems
I’ve written before on very practical ways of solving problems. I’d like to take a more energetic look at the subject because sometimes the problems are showing up due to how we’re being internally. For …
Four Kinds of Happiness
In a recent article on Huffington Post, they mention: “In his book Learned Optimism, Martin Seligman, a leading authority in the fields of Positive Psychology and resilience who studies emotionally successful lives, identifies three distinct …
Memories Are Made Of
“When you remember a past event, you are actually remembering the last time you remembered it, not the actual event. ” (unknown) As various experiments have shown, our memories tend to evolve over time. The …
The SAND Conference
Once a year in the US, the Science and Nonduality conference (SAND) is held in the fall in California. I’ve been invited to speak there on my Stages model this October. It will be an …
On Guides and Awakening
In this talk on Guides and Awakening, healer and spiritual teacher Kristin Kirk talks about their role in her own shift and how this is not contrary to non-duality. She uses the word “Guides” in …