The Importance of Proper Technique
In the spiritual market these days is a plethora of things people call “meditation”. We may think of them as largely equivalent but in fact there are huge differences. Practised long term, they’ll bring us …
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Food and Addiction
I’ve occasionally explored subjects like craving and food here. Several articles have come up recently on the topic I thought interesting. Firstly, in North America, research lead to an anti-fat movement in the 1960’s. We …
The Remains of Ignorance
Much as many awake people say they lost their ego, there is still a person there with preferences, winding down their karma. It can certainly seem like the ego is gone. Some even experience a …
Nested Space
Space is a fascinating thing. It is considered the most subtle fundamental “element” or building block of the world in many traditions around the world. Some suggest that all experiences are encoded in space as …
6 Stages of Becoming
You may wonder how there can be so many ways of describing the structure of the world. Which one is the “right” one? But as Albert Einstein so beautifully noted, everything is relative to the …
The Origins of Form
While science is dominated by a materialist paradigm that sees the physical world as the foundation of reality, some of the more ancient studies of the nature of reality place consciousness at the centre instead …
What is Meditation?
Regular readers of this blog know that I recommend an effortless mantra meditation to support a spiritual journey. It helps purify the physiology, bring us to source in samadhi, and culture inner acceptance. It is …
What is Witnessing?
There is a subject I’ve not explored quite like this before. That’s of the 3 kinds of witnessing. Many don’t notice the first kinds but they’re prevalent enough that some teachers describe a stage before …
The Foundations of Soma
Previously, I wrote about the nadis or energy channels of the body in Foundations. This also relates directly to the chakra databanks Rose Rosetree writes about. I’d like to explore this in a little more …
The Source of Thought
Awhile back, I wrote about where thoughts come from. Some arise from physical or emotional activity, triggering activity in the mind. Some are triggered by sensory information. Some from thought activity interacting with itself. And …
The Three Parts of Awakening
Recently I was on a retreat in which someone had an eventful Awakening, not unlike their personality. A subject came up in later discussions I thought it useful to go over here – the three …
The Value of a Life – Guru Dev
Periodically in history there comes someone who radiates presence so profoundly, they move a generation who go on to change the world. While the changers are celebrated, we can lose sight of the source of …