Disidentification vs Disassociation
While studying how to bring new services out, I’ve also been studying the second level of Embodied Processing. This includes Embodied Enquiry, a more somatic and embodied form of inquiry. And this study leads to …
Category: Mind
How Does Perception Work?
A reader asked me about the idea that perception is the “collapse of the wave function.” Physics experiments imply the idea that attention collapses a probability wave into a specific particle, solidifying matter & perception. …
Ishita on Embodiment
Are you friends with your body? Many of us have pulled back out of the body because of we’ve not learned to regulate our nervous system and resolve trauma. We hang out in our mind …
Soma in the Soma
With this year’s study of somatic therapy, I’ve realized I’ve been using the word “soma” in 2 different ways. Looking it up online, one finds a wild diversity of definitions for soma: the physical body, …
The Key to Healing
This article is by request, based on a brief talk I gave in November. A friend’s insight also enhanced it. This fall, I finished the theory part of my somatic therapy training. The next step …
Adjusting To Self Realization
One thing about becoming more conscious after awakening (and sometimes prior) is we become more aware of our narratives and programming. We see through and discard some of this. Things we once considered important can …
Awakening Beyond Unity: No-Self and Brahman, with Susanne Marie and John Rogers
Susanne Marie mentioned the anniversary of her conversation with Adyashanti on BATGAP. I’d also written an article on the interview as it was excellent, plus a great example of the variations in “gut” release. John …
Being Present
With spiritual practices, we can develop an ongoing presence, even to the degree of a detached awareness or observer that’s with us all the time. However, habits of the mind and those around us will …
Spiritual vs Healing Practices
Recently, I saw a talk by Ava Irani of Functional Spirituality. While I distinguish healing from awakening techniques, Ava did it much more explicitly. She observed that awakening techniques often also promise healing and vice …
Deep Patterns
We’re designed to be programmed. For example, in learning to speak, walk, ride a bike, and drive a car. Once we learn, the habit pattern allows us to do it almost without thinking. Automatic. However, …
A Conversation with Eva
Recently, Eva Muller and I had a conversation about the stages of enlightenment, exploring various nuances of the process. We started with an overview of the process. Then we went into witnessing and Self Realization. …
Validation
For the average person, our mind runs the show, getting most of its information about the world from the senses and memory. Because the identified mind is focused this way, we look outside of ourselves …