Over the years, my understanding of our natural potential has evolved quite a bit. Certainly, there’s the difference between conceptual ideas and direct experience, but there are many nuances as well. I originally studied Maharishi’s …
For much of our life, we’ve been immersed in movement, in activity. But after we learn to meditate, we begin to experience stillness. Then things seem to have two states, moving and still, relative and …
Over the years on the blog I’ve talked about the primary centres for release: what Adyashanti called Head, Heart, & Gut. They’re often the primary identifications of the individual ego, what I’ve also called the …
In our fourth conversation, Andrew Hewson and I touched on stages of unfolding Divinity but didn’t detail the process. I thought a list of possible steps of unfolding Divinity in our awareness would be useful. …
What are the primary things that influence our life experience? 1) Unresolved baggage (experiences) from prior lives drives us forward into new lives to complete them. 2) Development of Atman (consciousness/ presence) and Sattva (purity, …
This is one of life’s big questions. Most people identify with things like their name, work, background, nationality, skin colour, tastes, and so forth. But these are stories about ourselves or roles we’ve adopted. They …
The world around us can be perceived through several distinct lenses. Our past experiences certainly are a major influence, not to mention our dominant sense, our culture (group consciousness), our stage of development, and so …
Grace is an important element of the spiritual journey. Around the world, we see grace in one of two ways. The first type of grace is unexpected gifts or unmerited favour of the Divine. Peter …
When people use the English word “self” or any of its variations (myself, himself, etc.), they may refer to one or several things. Most commonly, they’re talking about the personal self or me. Yet if …
As we progress through the stages of development in consciousness, we come to know some key qualities of divinity. With Self Realization (Cosmic Consciousness), we come to know Omnipresence. This is experienced as liberation and …
Seems I’m on a scales thing these days… While everything we experience originates in the dynamics of consciousness, how much of that is embodied in form varies widely. For example, simple objects like rocks are …
In considering a different article, I realized there was a way to describe layers to the process of surrender. Similar to the process of consciousness unfolding to itself, there is 2 intertwined processes. One is …
