The Middle Way
Spiritual experiences are an interesting animal. Some of them are way outside our usual experience of the world. They can also be accompanied by both purification and feelings of peace, connection, and so forth. When …
Category: Consciousness
Layers and Gates
Our energy system is a complex and many-layered thing. The specific combinations of open, developed, and blocked channels are unique to each person. This also means each of us experience it differently. What we’re willing …
Nancy Shipley Rubin
Nancy Shipley Rubin is a psychic intuitive and counselor. Twice a year, she and her husband Errol come out of paradise in Hawaii to do a tour of the west coast, offering workshops and personal …
The Context of Reality
For the average person these days, they’d say their mind is in their body and the universe is “out there”, around them. Inside the body is the mind, outside is the world. For someone with …
A Quiet Revealing
I was sent a link to this blog today, an anonymous experience record. He asks that we read the bottom post first and progress up. Not a light read but some nice gems in there. …
How to Know God
In a discussion group, someone was asking how to have a relationship with God without the experience. In our western culture, we don’t have the common devotional examples they have in the east. In traditional …
What Wakes Up?
A recent question brought up another perspective on something we’ve talked about before, so I thought I’d share what arose. What is it that wakes up? What becomes enlightened? Awareness is already awake to Itself. …
Let Go, Just Be
“Don’t try to hold onto what is realized, be what is realized. You cannot maintain realization or sustain it. In order for it to always be, you must be it yourself—in your humanity.” – Adyashanti …
Why Do We Have A Karmic Backlog?
In a forum discussion, the following point arose I thought worth sharing: Why do we end up with such a backlog of karma? Before we explore the answer, it would be good to review the …
Breaking
Awakening isn’t what’s so damn difficult. The difficult part is cutting the legs out of the super structure of our own illusion. Let your heart break, you’re supposed to fail at this. There’s nothing wrong …
108 Reasons to Seek Enlightenment
For fun, I thought I’d see if I could find 108 good reasons to want to be enlightened. It turned out to be easy. These are essentially side effects of purification and development so are …
The Rational Heart
We pride ourselves in being rational people living in a rational community. But are we? In Chapter 6 of Entangled Minds, Dean Radin raises the “rational man” issue. We assume that science is a rational …