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 …
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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 …
The Gap Trap
Models of human development can be very useful on the journey. They give context to our experiences and help us open to the new and unexpected. They give language to our unfolding experience. However, if …
Bits of Time
Time is a very curious thing. Some say it’s an illusion but I’d suggest it’s better to understand it as an experiential effect. Fundamentally, the seed of time arises in the initial dynamics of creation. …
Solving Problems
Recently, I attended an afternoon workshop by Mark McCooey, a very successful businessman involved in multiple industries and several non-profits. The workshop covered problem-solving techniques he’s developed, based partly on the work of Byron Katie. …
Making a Living through Precession (Bucky Fuller)
In 1927, R. Buckminster Fuller committed himself and his family to working as he saw nature working. He documents this process, and the spiritual experience he had that started it, in his book Critical Path …
Shadbhava (the 6 Houses of our Life)
While people may speak of past karma or desire driving the form of this lifetime, the qualities of the life that unfold are found in various factors. Shadbhava is a term from Ayurveda meaning 6 …
The Dominant Sense
One of the factors that influences how we experience our unfolding growth is our dominant sense. The distinctiveness of this will depend also on the degree of that dominance. We’re all something of a mix. …