Krishna on Suffering
In this clip, they quote from the Mahabharata, the story of Krishna’s life. This is from after the war in the Bhagavad Gita. A woman approaches Krishna and questions why the good suffer and the …
Category: Heart
Our Spiritual Level (Edgar Cayce)
Recently, I saw the video below. I was surprised by how aligned it was. Edgar Cayce, the “sleeping prophet,” read the Akashic Records in a trance. He lived in the last century. He gave a …
Energetic Structures
I continue to be surprised by the nuances of our energy system. Our nadis or energy channels flow between energy centres (chakras) and support the body. You can see them as tubes that the flow …
Human Evolutionary Models
One model of evolutionary development is “Triune Brain” theory. This suggests that our brains reflect our evolutionary development. It has three primary levels of development: 1) the innermost Lizard or instinctive brain and our stress …
Cracked Open
In this conversation, Riyaz Motan, Adyashanti, John Prendergast, and Johnathan Gustin explore the awakening journey with serious illness and facing our mortality. Having been through a round of this myself, along with the premature death …
What is Happiness?
If you ask the average person about happiness, they may describe excitement or thrills. Perhaps they know satisfaction from accomplishment. But this is only a glimmer of happiness. Short, passing experiences. Often, we have a …
On Compassion
We were exploring compassion in a class recently. Like mindfulness, many people have ideas about compassion and what it looks like. But often this is cognitive; compassion as a concept. Many spiritual approaches dismiss the …
Connection
Recently, I’ve had a growing awareness of karma completing in some areas of life. The unresolved part ends, leaving only memory, a neutral history. This amplifies the distinction between what happened (the past, memory) and …
Soma in the Soma
With this year’s study of somatic therapy, I’ve realized I’ve been using the word “soma” in 2 different ways. Looking it up online, one finds a wild diversity of definitions for soma: the physical body, …
Dorothy Rowe and Eva Müller
Recently, Eva Müller interviewed Dorothy Rowe. It was a wonderful conversation about babies, parenting, transformation, energy healing, and spiritual evolution. Dorothy was in an especially devotional space, even with her analytical ability. “The Transformative Power …
Awakening Beyond Unity: No-Self and Brahman, with Susanne Marie and John Rogers
Susanne Marie mentioned the anniversary of her conversation with Adyashanti on BATGAP. I’d also written an article on the interview as it was excellent, plus a great example of the variations in “gut” release. John …
A Conversation with Eva
Recently, Eva Muller and I had a conversation about the stages of enlightenment, exploring various nuances of the process. We started with an overview of the process. Then we went into witnessing and Self Realization. …