Behaviour – Before and After Enlightenment
A friend of mine raised an interesting point they’d heard in a talk. I thought it worth exploring as there’s a lot of nonsense out there about “enlightened behaviour” and such. When you wake up …
The Afterlife
This little parable has been making the rounds recently, so I thought I’d share it. In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other …
It’s A Beautiful World
When I was in grad school a few years ago, I saw a late edit of a film by Richard Beymer called It’s A Beautiful World. It was a sort of Making Of film, following …
The Kingdom of God
“Someone who does not take a trip to the Kingdom of God (Transcendental Consciousness or samadhi), he remains searching for it – all pursuits, this and this, and greater pursuits. But unless totality is fathomed …
The One True Sound
The most famous symbol and sound from Sanskrit is the classic “OM”. Only it’s completely messed up. Why is this important? Because we’re talking about the alphabet of nature itself, the sounds that give rise …
Awake – The Story of Yogananda
Last month, I attempted to see the film Awake – The Story of Yogananda but the show turned out to have been sold out for 2 weeks. Happily, they brought it back for a few …
The Cosmic Story
I am inviting you, just as Papaji invited me, to stop telling the story. That is very different from making the story wrong. It is simply “Stop telling it.” Then there is an invitation to …
How Important Is Your Spiritual Life?
This came as a message today from a local Unity church. Rabbi Ram Shapiro says “a growing number of people are not affiliated with any religious tradition and a third of adults under thirty are …
Consciousness and the Brain
As part of a Stanford course called Hacking Consciousness, Dr. Fred Travis gave a talk on brain physiology and development, neural plasticity, and the way the brain is changed by experiencing pure consciousness. He then …
Self Sufficiency
Eckhart Tolle speaks of the pain body, what might be called our blob of unresolved experiences or incomplete emotions or karma. With the dawning of Cosmic Consciousness, we lose our attachment to a me and …
Zero
Recently, I saw a DVD talk by Lorne Hoff called Zero. Part of the talk was a kind of countdown of the stages: 3 – dimensions of space, the field of multiplicity in typical waking …
What is Parabrahman?
In a recent correspondence, a question came up about Parabrahman, something I briefly mentioned at the bottom of The Stages chart. The term Brahman is used to mean several things. Some refer to the experience …