Dreaming Awake
Last month, Lori Ann Lothian posted an article about her awakening process. In it she described how she recently woke up, then realized she had lost her prior awakening during a 2-year series of difficult …
Category: Ego
Self Actualization
About 70 years ago, Abraham Maslow proposed a theory of self-actualization and helped found a new branch of psychology. He suggested that if you meet more basic needs like physical and safety, you can address …
Truth
I can define truth as facts yet facts are items of information or data. How we see that data depends on the perceiver. Similarly, truth can be defined as a proposition or idea that is …
It’s Not About You
One of the most important lessons of the spiritual journey is letting go of the habit of making it about you, of taking life personally, of thinking what happens is about how it affects you. …
Spinning or Seeing
There is a simple principle to understand about our life experiences. If there is an experience showing up in our life, it’s there for our benefit. The difficult customer, the meeting going sideways, the crazy …
Feelings vs Emotions
On this blog, I use Emotions and Feelings to mean different things, although English is a little limiting. For example, we “feel emotions,” we don’t emote them (although some sure do (laughs)). I use this …
The Association of Professional Spiritual Teachers (now ASI)
Through the cycle of descending ages, most spiritual traditions came to overemphasize the masculine – both in approach and in domination by men. This has led to drier, more austere forms of spirituality and issues …
The Unbalanced Masculine
I often write articles about personal inner work but current events are bringing large shadows to the surface. It’s important to talk about so we have a reasonable perspective on the issues being highlighted. …
Carrying Your World
Our beliefs, karma, stress, cultural memes, learning, and more add to the scaffolding of our life. They also serve as filters for our experience. An identified ego lays claim to what we do and experience …
The Power of Belief
Bruce Lipton wrote a book some years ago called The Biology of Belief. He describes how our beliefs influence our physiology, including gene expression. This came out of early research on epigenetics (gene expression). We …
Karma Collecting
To feel in control and secure, we identify with experiences of what is here. I experience through this body-mind so it is me. This is my job. These are my possessions. These are my friends, …
The Power of Speech
The spoken word is sounds that represent conceptual symbols that have a somewhat shared meaning. For example, if I speak the word “apple”, you’ll have a good idea of what I’m referring to but not …