The Personal
In How to Know God, I talked about the Personal mode of experiencing. Lets explore that a little more deeply. In the west the majority of people believe in angels. Yet if someone were to …
Category: Love
How to Know God
In a discussion group, someone was asking how to have a relationship with God without the experience. In our western culture, we don’t have the common devotional examples they have in the east. In traditional …
108 Reasons to Seek Enlightenment
For fun, I thought I’d see if I could find 108 good reasons to want to be enlightened. It turned out to be easy. These are essentially side effects of purification and development so are …
Beyond Duality, Part 2
In Part 1, we explored how we must let go even of liberation, of Heaven, to reach reality. Now, we might well ask, why the attachment to Heaven if we’ve learned to let go before? …
In the Garden of Life
In a discussion with a friend, an interesting distinction arose between love and gratitude. Love, I realized, wasn’t something you really culture. It pre-exists. It is the flow of life itself. Rather, love is what …
Opening the Hearts Door
Back on 10 Steps to Enlightenment, I note the importance of experiencing our nature and study to understand it. Spirit & mind. But I also mention Housecleaning. Taking a look at our emotional baggage. I’ve …
Fire the Grid completes
Back in 2007, the first Fire the Grid (later numbered III) event took place. Shelley Yates toured the continent speaking about it. Millions of people around the world joined in a simultaneous meditation. I spoke …
Why Does Happiness Leave?
When someone suggests life is bliss and that it unfolds in an ocean of love (as I do), it may be a little hard to accept or even fathom. Our fullest experiences of happiness are …
Pamela’s Story
Pamela Wilson is a teacher from the Ramana lineage. I’ve not yet heard her give satsang but have heard she’s very heart-based. She woke with Neelam whom I have met. A friend of mine sent …
Anita’s Love
A friend sent me an interview with Anita Moorjani. This reflected beautifully on the recent theme of Value. Most of us have spiritual experiences as a result of a practice or circumstance. But occasionally, someone …
5 Love Languages
Recently, I read a book that I found unexpectedly potent so I thought I’d share it with you. I’d heard the term “love language” but didn’t really have much context. Then, while visiting a friend’s …
Where stories surrender sweetly
Generally, when I quote other blogs, I just excerpt them and link to the rest of the content. But poems lose something if you break them up. Here is one, intact, from Ameeta Kaul. We …