The Journey, part 2
As we become established in Self realization, the next stage is God Consciousness. This second waking is essentially a process. It is a process of the clearing of the heart and the opening of the …
Category: Consciousness
The Journey, part 1 of 3
We certainly live in remarkable times. As the talk has shifted from a coming or dawning age to the age being here, there has been a huge surge in awakenings. I know a lot of …
Emptiness – friend or foe
In a recent Nirmala newsletter, he asks the question “What is it about emptiness that makes us want to move away from it?” “Is emptiness really a bad sensation? When you consider the literal meaning …
What’s After and Before
Recently, there’s been some action here and on some related blogs on Past Lives. In the post on Self Effort, I referred to reading the Yog Vasishta. In the story of Lila, Vasishta touches on …
Coming Back to Past Lives
In the past, I have written about Deep Memory, Time, and The Past. Over on Tom Stine’s blog, he raised the subject of past lives / reincarnation. It’s an intriguing subject I’ve skimmed over in …
The Flow of Becoming
In Objective Subjectivity, I spoke of how seers can perceive subtler values of existence. Physics has discovered that the world is really a vibrating mass of energy and fields, popping into and out of existence …
Can you hear the picture?
There is an “illness” science has called Synaesthesia, where there is a tendency for the senses to intermingle. Early focus was on extreme cases that hampered a persons ability to function. But there are subtler …
Name and Form
Recently, a couple of key quotes from the Rig Veda have come around again and I thought it might be worth touching on this remarkable set of texts. There is an old Sanskrit saying, “knowledge …
The Nine Drives
On Allowing vs Indulging, I commented on Burt Harding’s newsletter on transforming Anger into Love and seeing the difference between Indulging and Allowing. That newsletter is now posted at the link above. Yesterday, I got …
Time Comes
It is interesting to see how the media is evolving. In the ’70’s, I used to explore large magazine and book shops, trolling for articles (ideas). Nowadays, while the media corporations consolidate and target lowest …
Integration vs Growth
Tom has posted a great Adyashanti quote from earlier this year on Spiritual Awakening. I raised a point there I would like to repeat here – the importance of understanding the 2 aspects of the …
How I learned to stop arguing with reality and pick up my children’s socks
The above is the subtitle to a short article by Byron Katie in the latest Shared Vision magazine. The article is called “Suffering is Optional“. “What I came to see was that my suffering wasn’t …