The Third Eye
Recently, I watched a talk on the evolution of our eyes. Very early on, living things developed a single eye that was sensitive to just light and shadow. Life then developed a three-eye structure with …
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Yoga, A Bigger Picture
About two and a half years ago, I went to a Day of the Dead event. It turned out to be hosted by a Toastmasters club. As I give occasional talks and interviews, I knew …
Everything can be Used to Escape
A great conversation between Maggie and 2 of the teachers at the Centre for Healing: Matt Kay and Noel Haarburger. They explore bypassing and dissociation and how spiritual practices, somatic techniques, and healing practices can …
Adyashanti on True Embodiment
A friend shared this audio clip of Adyashanti (2011) where he talks about embodiment, of coming back down and in to our humanity.
Susanne Marie on the Gut Awakening
Over the years, I’ve talked about the gut awakening. This is part of a sequence that Adyashanti described as head, heart, gut. I jokingly called these the 3 am-egos. We could say the 3 levels …
Podcast with Matt on Awakening, Trauma, and Embodiment
Recently, I had a conversation with Matt K., one of the teachers at The Centre for Healing. Unlike prior interviews, we went more into my childhood, then the discovery of meditation, witnessing, and on into …
A Process Model of Awakening
Gareth of Endless Possibilities interviewed awake scientist Pierce Salguero. Pierce has proposed a non-stages model of awakening with 4 “threads” that we might think of as styles of experiencing the process. It’s a very inclusive …
Cracked Open
In this conversation, Riyaz Motan, Adyashanti, John Prendergast, and Johnathan Gustin explore the awakening journey with serious illness and facing our mortality. Having been through a round of this myself, along with the premature death …
The Highly Sensitive Person, Empaths, & Trauma
In the current time, consciousness is rising. This is increasing access to our hidden trauma (our unresolved experiences) but also means it’s coming up for people who don’t know how to process it. This leads …
Susanne and Rick on Self
Some time ago, Rick Archer, Adyashanti, and Susanne Marie had a conversation I wrote about as it had some interesting distinctions in the experience of self and identity. Recently, Susanne, John Rogers, and I had …
Humanising Awakening
Recently, I told my awakening story to Maggie on the Humanising Awakening channel. I talk about the process, from learning to meditate through ParaBrahman, with lots of asides for context and variations. We’ve also recorded …
Energetic Blocks to Awakening – Colette Davie
Here’s a yummy healing from Colette Davie, removing blocks to awakening. On YouTube