The Goal of Enlightenment
For many years, my top goal was enlightenment. Until I had kids, it trumped all aces, even career. And then one day, I saw that there was no such thing as the enlightenment I had …
Category: Consciousness
One Process
A question from a good friend drew out an important point. Recently, I’ve written still more about the way reality can change in posts like “What Changes?” Yet it doesn’t matter what model or way …
Within Bliss
Lots of space cowboys and the ‘spiritually positive’ out there like to make statements like “Life is Bliss”. When it’s not the experience, statements like that are just making a mood. Pretend. And pretend is …
Our Masks
We can say our story is a mask over the soul, as a I discussed in Awakening to the Soul. We can say the soul is a mask over the cosmic Purusha*. And Purusha is …
Perception is Every thing
It is interesting to consider some of the consequences of recent articles on the way our reality becomes. In Qualities and Quantities of Being, I outlined how Samkhya suggests the senses of perception and elements …
Awakening (Part 5/5)
The Soul One of the things you hear less about is the second thread. There is the white sutra coming in the top of the head, connecting you with the divine. And then there is …
Practical Understanding (Part 4/5)
Firstly, understand that biology responds to energy and light, not just chemicals. For example the skin produces Vitamin D and tans when exposed to sunlight. Biologists have discovered individual cells respond to specific energy and …
Myths and Resistance (Part 3/5)
Count One of the things you’ll run into is variations in chakra count. Some will suggest 5 or 9 or 14 or even 22. They may include the feet or other centers in the head, …
The Bodies and Energies (Part 2/5)
Bodies While all this energy moves about in subtle and gross channels, it creates what we think of as our “body”. But there is also what one might call field effects that interact with the …
Understanding your Energy System (Part 1/5)
In the west, we’re brought up with a conceptual model of ourselves as physical beings who think and have emotions. Mind and feelings are typically seen as effects of physical functions. We are the side …
Qualities and Quantities of Being (Vaisheshika and Samkhya)
India has a very ancient spiritual tradition that has somehow survived the usual ravages of time. Partly because it has had periodic revivals, partly geography. Within that tradition are 6 systems of philosophy designed to …
What Arises
It is interesting to see how things come up in “sets”. Quite often, I end up writing an article because the same subject keeps showing up in a short period of time from different places. …