Pride and Humility
Back on the Aura Reading post, my joke about stubbornness lead to an off-line question. In sharing the response here, it evolved into something new. I wouldn’t describe stubbornness as necessarily associated with pride. It …
Category: Heart
The Sacred Heart(s) (4+1)
When I was speaking with Denise Hagan after a small concert recently, I realized I’d left something off the recent article on Hridaya, the divine heart. And that is Hrit, the heart sub-chakra. For review, …
Aura Reading
Over the years on this blog I’ve talked about refined perception, the koshas or auras, and other aspects of our energetic nature. Recently I’ve been talking some about Rose Rosetree and chakra databanks. Rose has …
Spirituality and Religion
“Many people are already aware of the difference between spirituality and religion. They realize that having a belief system — a set of thoughts that you regard as the absolute truth — does not make …
A Compulsion to Recreate the Past
A long while back, I wrote a bit about Eva Pierrakos, a channel who brought out Pathwork in the 50’s through 70’s. I’ve only read a little of the material but found it quite insightful. …
Hridaya, the Divine Heart
In a number of ways, I’ve talked about the progression of higher stages of consciousness here. How Self Realization unfolds into Unity or Oneness. I’ve spoken about the post-personal stages of development, about the descent …
Energy Modalities
Back in a discussion of Yugas, I noted that by Yukteswar’s calculations, we have moved into the Energy age (Dwapara). Along with the discovery of electricity and atomic energy, a number of energy healing modalities …
One Man
One man devotes his life to the world as real and solid, worthy of his confidence. Another man devotes his life to the world as illusion, a mirage or waking dream. Yet another man devotes …
3 Levels of Non-Dual Reality
One of the things I harp on here and in a few other forums is stages of enlightenment. Like all other human development including puberty, it is a process marked with distinct stages. There are …
What’s Your Story?
Over time, as we have experiences of the world and learn from others, we pick up stories or beliefs about the world. Our stories are self-reinforcing. We filter out sensory information that doesn’t correspond. This …
What Supports Happiness?
Really the question should be: What gets in the way of Happiness? Happiness is innate, it is the subjective experience of the flow of life itself. If we are alive, simply being, we should be …
Holy Now
There is a curious gap in western spiritual dialogue. We talk of awakening and we talk of oneness. What of the awakening heart and the unfolding of celestial perception known as God Consciousness? We have …