Mantra and the World
As readers of this blog know, I recommend an effortless mantra meditation rather than one using concentration or similar. This is because a mantra is a sound with known effects. If we try to use …
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Foundations
I wanted to clarify our understanding from the foundational structure of the form of our personal existence – the foundations of our mind, emotions and body. Our energetic DNA we might say. Consider this a …
Past Past
In another forum, I was asked how you know a memory is a past life and not imagination or perhaps resonating with some general past event. I’ve spoken on this subject here before, but thought …
Conscience to Consciousness
In human growth and development, we follow a track some suggest reflects our evolution as a species. In the terminology of Loevinger’s Ego stages, we go through Symbiotic, Impulsive (terrible 2’s) and Self-Protective stages as …
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 …
Identification is not the Problem
On this blog, I’ve discussed how the demonization of the ego and mind as the barriers to enlightenment was false. I’ve suggested it is actually the identification with them that causes bondage. Both remain after …
Gradations (and Styles) of Awakening
We can say that there is ‘not awake’ and ‘awake’. Like waking from sleep, we are sleeping or we’re awake. But we can notice that there can be gradations in the waking process. A point …
Understanding Shakti in Awakening – Pt 1 of 3
Several months ago, I discovered my understanding of the energetic process underlying enlightenment was flawed and incomplete. While it corresponded to a number of traditions, it did not address how everyone experienced the process. This …
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 …
Householder and Monk
We’ve been slowly rising out of a dark age spiritually. For some time, real spiritual progress was best achieved by withdrawing from the heaviness of the world. Thus, for hundreds of years, the most illustrious …
Non-Violent Communication
Much of our emotional pain and struggles in life are due to unmet needs. These have developed through resistance and denial of what is and being trained that some emotions are unacceptable. This is most …