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 …
Category: Consciousness
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 …
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 …
True Law
Also in a recent discussion, a consideration of law I’ll share here. When people are out of touch with who they are, they act from unfulfilled desires and reactivity rather than sense. They put their …
The Stages of Unity
In an online discussion, the subject of the stages of Unity came up. I thought I’d share the summary here, edited for context. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi compared the 10 mandalas (books) of the Rig Veda …
It’s All Nested
I’ve spoken here before about how space is nested due to how consciousness self-interacts. Each more localized level of creation arises from progressively more locally aware consciousness, creating layers nested within each other. Think of …