Four Mayas
Awhile back, I wrote about the 3 forms of Maya described by Shankara. The way we perceive the world is dependent on the dominant guna or quality through which we experience it. Guna means string …
Category: Consciousness
Father Thomas Keating
My first real exposure to Father Keating was in the film One, the Movie (2005). I bought the DVD and the extras DVD that included the entire interviews*. More recently, I discovered he played a …
What is Consciousness? – Part 3
< Part 1 < Part 2 The next stage is a recognition by the intellect. That pure consciousness I am is directly cognized to be the same as what underlies the world. We don’t just …
What is Consciousness? – Part 2
< Part 1 Higher Stages Going beyond the individual ego-sense moves us into several stages of development of consciousness itself. First as the observer, then with the observation of the world becoming, and then united …
What is Consciousness? – part 1 of 3
I’ve been invited to contribute to the on-line magazine Science to Sage. It’s a graphically rich magazine that shares the works of a number current thinkers and artists. Each issue is themed and the March …
Why is there Suffering?
One of the questions we all face at some point in our life – and one that may also haunt us for a while – is the question of suffering. Why am I having these …
Unity and Brahman
There’s another key way of differentiating between Unity and Brahman. In Cosmic Consciousness or Self Realization, we recognize ourselves as the Seer or Observer. In Unity, we recognize the same Seer in the objects of …
Expectations and Experience
Expectations can have a strong effect on our experience of life. If we have heavier feelings about life, we’ll tend to have lower or darker expectations. Because what we put our attention on grows stronger, …
Components of Consciousness
If we understand that all experiences are derived from consciousness and arise in consciousness, we have a deep sense of the nature of the world. From that, you may view all as consciousness. This perspective …
Bruce Lipton and Tom Campbell
This summer, MBT Events toured physicist Tom Campbell around the west coast to speak with other cutting edge thinkers and recorded the conversations. In this chat, Dr. Campbell met with epigenetic biologist Bruce Lipton. It …
Conscious Stories
Life doesn’t always make sense. When it doesn’t, our mind naturally tries to fill in the gaps, to explain why. The problem comes when we start to believe these stories. Nancy observes that they then …
Empty is OK
Nancy’s talk brought up a key point: People often fear what they don’t understand. In our culture, we’re taught to fear empty space. Children often have an experience of that expansive openness. But when not …