Creation, in a Nutshell
Recently, someone asked me to describe Narayana in creation. This is a level that is difficult to describe. It is seeing prior to form, in a space prior to space. It is beyond eternity, beyond …
Category: Divine
The Experience of God
This came up in another forum and I thought it worth sharing here, though I’ve covered it before. It is edited for context. Although not everyone recognizes this, on observation, we can recognize a profound …
On Sanskrit
In another forum, I wrote the following and thought it worth sharing here. It’s edited for context. Sanskrit is a language that represents the sound of nature creating. Shiksha (a book on Sanskrit pronunciation) tells …
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 …
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 …
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. …
The Dark Night(s)
Reading the spiritual literature in most traditions, you’re sure to run into some references to an emotionally difficult patch or spiritual crisis. Recently, St. John’s term “Dark Night of the Soul” has come to be …
The Personal
In How to Know God, I talked about the Personal mode of experiencing. Lets explore that a little more deeply. In the west the majority of people believe in angels. Yet if someone were to …
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 …
Get Out Of The Way
From a House Concert I was at a few weeks ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5JCRWuOnrU Michelle Briggs – singing and organizing the fundraising event Brock Tully – on Harmonica, and the man behind the World Kindness Concert Bill …
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 …
What is Eternal?
As our spiritual nature unfolds, we begin to experience things that appear eternal. They appear unbounded in time. At its highest layers, creation is a nested series of infinite virtual space-times, each in a self-aware …