Listening
One issue with living in a mind-dominated culture is that many never gain the art of listening. When someone is sharing with us, we’re often in the mind thinking about what we’re going to say …
Category: Mind
Divinely Human Stages
This is a followup to my review of CC Leigh’s book Becoming Divinely Human, exploring her descriptions of awakening. My model of the stages of development in consciousness is based on the transcendent shifts within. …
Healing Through Spiritual Alignment interview
Dorothy Rowe joined Gareth Duignam on his Endless Possibilities Podcast again. I’ve written several articles about Dorothy’s work over the years. Loved this conversation in particular, on the roots of healing. Illness is from “some …
Where Am I?
One of the curious questions a teacher or healer may ask you is “Where are you?” Where do you experience yourself as being? This can be a big clue to our stage of development, but …
Styles of Coping
Power is a very curious thing. Often, we equate it with the masculine. However, in its essential nature, power or Shakti is feminine. She drives nature. She is our life force or prana. She is …
Responsibility Climbs
One thing about the spiritual path is what Ken Wilbur called “growing up.” This refers to maturing as a person. And that includes taking responsibility for our behaviour. This vs the ego blaming others for …
Ways of Knowing
I’ve talked about ways of knowing in several articles. For example, The Seeing Seer, which explores the stages of knowing towards cognitions of reality. Or On Knowing, which explores the difference between conceptual knowing, experimental …
Sustaining Circumstances
Recently, I recognized another circumstance in resolving karma. For various reasons, when some karma completes, we may not let it go. Put another way, even though the consequences have completed, there is some aspect that …
Story Follows State
“Story follows State.” This is a term from polyvagal theory. What it means is the state of our nervous system drives our perception and that drives our narratives. In the most obvious example, when we …
The Quality of What We Believe
Being able to distinguish truth from distortion is a key ability that can develop in our teen years when the prefrontal cortex (forebrain) comes online. However, we may lean more on peers or those we …
Working with Emotional Resistance
In this video, Ben Tannahill of Drunken Buddha discusses how and why we learn to resist experiencing emotions and how to adjust for that so we can resolve them. Ben is a somatic therapy practitioner …
Hidden Structures
Fundamentally, consciousness structures who we are and everything we experience. The physical world has been built up in layers. There are 7 primary layers (koshas) in this process. And there are 7 primary chakras (energy …