On the Origin of Experience and Form, part 1
How does the world really work? Who are we? Why are we here? For the last few hundred years, modern thought has been dominated by a scientific worldview, a systematic approach to the world, valuing …
Category: Consciousness
What Allows?
Back on What Awakes, I spoke to the question of what it is that wakes up. People have many illusions about this. Many have some idea that awakening requires perfection, top health, or deep wisdom. …
Is Time Needed?
Recently, Takuin posted Broken Beyond Repair, a discourse on his moment of realization. When someone awakens, how they experience it varies widely. One may have a bit of flash, some emotional release, or a sense …
Inclusive
A number of times here, I have written about Unity or Oneness, the end of all “states” of consciousness where we become consciousness Itself. In The Journey – Part 3, I speak of reality being …
Sincerity
“Sincerity is a word that I often use in teaching to convey the importance of being rooted in the qualities of honesty, authenticity, and genuineness. There can be nothing phony or contrived in our motivations …
Not Yet Enlightenment
Tom Stine has posted an excellent article on the question of what constitutes enlightenment. I believe he is using the word Enlightenment the way I describe full enlightenment. As he observes, the experience of it …
Healing Pain
In several articles here, such as The Past and The 2 Causalities, I’ve spoken of how our lives are not what they seem. That time is not sequential and that the apparent causality of the …
Innate vs Illusion
I have spoken here about how we live in a dream within a dream within a dream. The dream of the person in the dream of the universe, in the dream of God or creation. …
Sequence
In This Journey and other posts here, I talk about sequence a lot. It’s the nature of process. Growth and development follows a certain spiral pattern – balance, disintegration, growth, integration and repeat. The evolution …
This Journey
There is some further clarity I can bring to the recent series of posts on The Journey. Earlier, I did a 3 part-er on Finding a Teacher. There is a kind of spectrum of approach …
The Journey, close
This series illustrates the illusion of being able to tell if someone is awake by their behavior or lives. I’ve seen several spiritual groups lose large numbers of students because the leader made a “mistake” …
The Journey, part 3
As with the rest of human development, this stage is a process. Unity itself is a realization. A seeing through. A discovery that even creation itself, the dream of God is but a mirage. Without …