The End of Surrender
As with all things, everything on the path comes to an end. A prominent example is forgiveness. As we do our work and look at our resistance to certain emotional experiences, we come to a …
Category: Divine
Experience vs Being
A few times recently, the subject of experiences vs being has come up again. Often, people will have profound experiences of higher states of consciousness prior to actual awakening. These experiences are very valuable as …
Mantra, Mantra
Awhile back I started an article on meditation but it soon became clear this was more like a small book than a blog post. I decided to write on just one aspect that is less …
Curtains of Mind
Recently here, we’ve talked about the model of life as a movie theater with the observer as projector and the world as the screen. The senses perceive the liveliness and create an image in mind, …
Shaktipat
Shaktipat is a Sanskrit term referring to energy transfer. Typically, it’s understood around a guru giving a students energy a kick. The classic illustration is the teacher tapping the students third eye. Kazap! But Shaktipat …
Abide some More
Back on Abide with Me, I discussed Adyashanti’s concept of abiding and non-abiding awakening. I thought it would be worth exploring this a little more. As people have a need to verify and understand their …
Grace or Practice
In chapter 10 of Adyashanti’s book The End of Your World, he touches on an interesting debate. If you explore various spiritual traditions, you will find some that will tell you awakening happens by grace. …
Writing on Spirit
What is the value of writing about spirit, something that cannot be described? What is the value of words about reality when each of us has a unique one? When words are dead things, symbols …
The Quantum Activist
Dr Amit Goswami was one of the scientists in the film What the Bleep? He spoke here at the Bleep conference a few years ago. He was also in Dalai Lama Renaissance. Recently, he published …
The Yogas or Paths
I regularly mention the various paths here and realized I’d not covered this here. There are as many paths to Oneness as there are people. People exist to experience Self or source in different ways, …
Soul and Self
I’ve spoken of the process of awakening quite a bit on this blog – everything from the 7 states of consciousness and Perspectives to the Veda of Unity. Recently, on Models of Awakening, I mused …
Seeing with the Heart
There’s an interesting phenomena that takes place in the evolution of perception. One that may not make sense in our typical understanding of how the senses work. But if we understand that senses and their …