An Infinite Crash
Awhile back, I wrote about reading an except from the book Collision with the Infinite by Suzanne Segal. Until now, the book hasn’t been available to read but I used the excerpt as an example …
Category: Divine
One Prediction of a Golden Age
A 10,000 year golden age is predicted in the Brahma-vaivarta Purana 4.129 by Krisna. Excerpts: “On the earth 5,000 years of Kali will be sinful and sinners will deposit their sins in you by bathing.” …
Who Speaks?
In the recent post The Power of Speech, I touched on the power of the voice and value of speaking from truth rather than stories. After awakening, this dynamic becomes more conscious. It becomes clear …
Wither Goeth Ego?
If you read much spiritual literature from different traditions, you’ll quickly find a plethora of conflicting information about human awakening. The main issue is that we tend to think, and some teachers encourage, that awakening …
Omniscience
Omniscience is a very big subject. (laughs) It is all knowing. But not about knowing all things. It is about knowing all knowing. Total knowingness. This can be very hard for the mind to grasp. …
A Drop of Flash
There is a rather distinctive experience that happens on the journey of awakening. A blinding white flash that obliterates all experience for a short time. I’ve seen it described with waking, with the unity switch, …
Unfolding God
The direct experience of God is one of the most significant events in anyones life. Even more profound to live it, to become what has been experienced. At it’s crown, this is God Realization. And …
What is Lost is Gained
Recently, I ran into more of the story of Bernadette Roberts. When she was a Carmelite nun, she had a superior who believed she was deceived or under Satan’s grasp for experiencing pure silence. As …
Deeper I-Ness
Another process Yogananda reviewed was the evolution of the ego self. What we might call the concept of self or the level of identification. First thing to note is that he describes our person as …
The Seat of the Soul
Recently, I was reading some of Yogananda‘s commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (the Song of God, a key section of the Mahabharata where Krishna teaches Arjuna about the ways of action, yoga, etc.) In it, …
Coming Home
Some describe the experience of the spiritual journey as a coming home. This is surprisingly literal. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi used to use the phrase “mother is at home” to describe the security one felt in …
True Faith
If someone were to ask you about your faith, usually you’ll assume they mean what religion you follow. Many people will thus answer something like Catholic or Jewish or New Age or Atheist or even …