Why is there Suffering?
One of the questions we all face at some point in our life – and one that may also haunt us for a while – is the question of suffering. Why am I having these …
Category: Heart
Best of the Season!
As the new year rises from the long night of the past, I thought I’d share this story, in case you hadn’t heard it on this side of the ocean. A Love Story @ TED …
Culturing the Feelings
In another forum, I made the following comment as some of the “enlightenment fundamentalists” were categorically discounting energy work. I think it worth noting an observation. In India, they have historically had a profound devotional …
Bruce Lipton and Tom Campbell
This summer, MBT Events toured physicist Tom Campbell around the west coast to speak with other cutting edge thinkers and recorded the conversations. In this chat, Dr. Campbell met with epigenetic biologist Bruce Lipton. It …
Gratitude for Self
I’ve spoken here a lot about the importance of gratitude. Being thankful for what’s in our lives helps culture an openness and allowing. It also helps enable support. But there’s a deeper aspect of gratitude …
Conscious Stories
Life doesn’t always make sense. When it doesn’t, our mind naturally tries to fill in the gaps, to explain why. The problem comes when we start to believe these stories. Nancy observes that they then …
Meeting What You Need
I’ve spoken here a number of times about the importance of allowing, of letting ‘what is’ be there, of letting emotions arise and complete. When we resist the flow of energy, we don’t see what …
Karma is the Blind Spot
In articles here, I’ve occasionally mentioned that karma comes with a blind spot. This causes us to walk into circumstances we otherwise wouldn’t and do things we may later regret. We may even ask ourselves …
Prayer of Gratitude
In the past, I’ve written several articles on the subject of prayer. In Deep Prayer I discussed the difference between the Petitionary prayer of asking for something and an Intercessionary prayer of surrender; the prayer …
States of Consciousness redux
aka 7 States of Consciousness, aka Stages of Human Development See Update: Stages of Development in Consciousness Periodically on this blog, I write a reference article for background info on key subjects. I can then …
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 …
Facing Emotional Trauma
Most of us had some major challenges to face during childhood. Parents unable to express tenderness, violence, abandonment, discounting, the list goes on and on. But it’s interesting to note how different children in the …