Progress & Embodiment
Several times recently, the subject of embodiment has come up. That is, not just spiritual awakening or enlightenment but living that in the world. I’ve spoken before about the masculine and feminine aspects of the …
Category: Consciousness
Calling Grace (Part 4)
One of the more interesting aspects of Nancy Shipley Rubin‘s recent workshop was on Grace. In most spiritual traditions we are essentially culturing the ground (body, emotions, mind) and waiting for that moment of grace …
The Energetics of Attraction (Part 1)
Over the years, I’ve written a variety of articles on intention, the law of attraction, sufficiency, and related subjects. This has included the series on success, gaining cooperation from the environment, magnetizing money, and a …
The Next Stage
A fun video. I would just make 2 adjustments to the message: 1 – it’s not “about to go”, it’s already happening. It is only that it is an inside out process so it has …
Awakening from Awakening
In a conversation About Adyashanti’s book Resurrecting Jesus, Adya and Francis Bennett touch on (at about 18 min) the integration of awakening where it becomes more inclusive of the world, being both fully human and …
Karma Post-Enlightenment
Karma is a curious bird. It means action, what we’d call energy in physics. Yet most people think about it more in terms of our baggage – the karmic consequences that are active in our …
Divine Beings
A subject that comes up periodically is the distinction between types of subtle beings. I reviewed them recently here. Many people first experience the beings closer to their physical presence. Perhaps the dead, or nature …
Cosmic Stages
I’ve written before about the stages of childhood development. Using the Alexander model from psychology, we can describe the dominant stages of: Body & Senses (learning to sense and walk and talk) Desires & Emotions …
Our Natural Potential
For those of you in the Vancouver area, I’ll be giving a talk during the Centre for Spiritual Living‘s Sunday service @ 11am on Sunday, October 26th. Here’s the blurb: In this talk, David will …
Signs and Omens
Many of the worlds traditions include some way to read “omens”. But much of that has degraded into superstition and a sense of victim-hood. There are lots of books floating around listing meanings of events, …
The Divided Soul
The idea that the soul can ever be divided or broken is false. It may well feel like that for some but the soul is that point of awareness in awareness aware of itself at …
Lorne and Lucia Retreats
I was recently on another Lorne and Lucia retreat. As usual, the presence of the gathered group was very powerful and helped trigger another opening. It’s evolved a great deal since I first started going …