Q&A, Part 3
It’s rare such back and forth continues. But there was more. This continues from Q&A 2… I have some other writing to come but life has other demands at the moment. … When acting, if …
Category: Consciousness
Q&A, Part 2
Afer a short pause the back and forth mentioned in the prior article continued, with some side debate on issues with my approach. Again, edited slightly for context. … As I discussed prior, it depends …
A Q&A
I’m working on a rather large article, reframing the stages model a bit. But this month has been unusually busy with family, so it’s been sitting for a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, in a non-duality …
Unity unto Brahman
In Unity we discover how deeply true it is that all we experience – ourselves and the world – arises in consciousness. And all of this flows from consciousness becoming self-aware or aware of itself. …
What is Witnessing?
There is a subject I’ve not explored quite like this before. That’s of the 3 kinds of witnessing. Many don’t notice the first kinds but they’re prevalent enough that some teachers describe a stage before …
The Foundations of Soma
Previously, I wrote about the nadis or energy channels of the body in Foundations. This also relates directly to the chakra databanks Rose Rosetree writes about. I’d like to explore this in a little more …
The Source of Thought
Awhile back, I wrote about where thoughts come from. Some arise from physical or emotional activity, triggering activity in the mind. Some are triggered by sensory information. Some from thought activity interacting with itself. And …
The Time of Yoga
The Yoga Sutras are a key text in our understanding of yoga, meditation, non-violence and other spiritual practices. It underlies the various “schools” of Yoga, even to modern bastardizations like “hot” yoga. The author of …
The Fear of Unity
I’ve spoken before about what is typically the last barrier to Unity – a deep fear arising in the deep past from the experience of separation from the divine. In his conversation with Adyashanti, Loch …
The Three Parts of Awakening
Recently I was on a retreat in which someone had an eventful Awakening, not unlike their personality. A subject came up in later discussions I thought it useful to go over here – the three …
The Worlds, Part 2
< Part 1 Lokas On the subject of lokas, there is a considerable mis-emphasis in interpretation of someone else’s subjective experience. Often, it turns into a debate on who is “right” when it’s just different …
The Worlds and Gayatri – part 1
Recently, a discussion brought up the Gayatri mantra and the Lokas or worlds described in some of the eastern texts. I’ve touched on the lokas before, but more from the context of layers. The world …