Awakening from Awakening
In a conversation About Adyashanti’s book Resurrecting Jesus, Adya and Francis Bennett touch on (at about 18 min) the integration of awakening where it becomes more inclusive of the world, being both fully human and …
Category: Mind
Karma Post-Enlightenment
Karma is a curious bird. It means action, what we’d call energy in physics. Yet most people think about it more in terms of our baggage – the karmic consequences that are active in our …
Cosmic Stages
I’ve written before about the stages of childhood development. Using the Alexander model from psychology, we can describe the dominant stages of: Body & Senses (learning to sense and walk and talk) Desires & Emotions …
Signs and Omens
Many of the worlds traditions include some way to read “omens”. But much of that has degraded into superstition and a sense of victim-hood. There are lots of books floating around listing meanings of events, …
Lorne and Lucia Retreats
I was recently on another Lorne and Lucia retreat. As usual, the presence of the gathered group was very powerful and helped trigger another opening. It’s evolved a great deal since I first started going …
More Time!
Many people feel a lot of pressure on time. That there is never enough time to get what we “need” to do done. Not to mention some time for ourselves, our families, our friends, that …
Who Are We?
This came up in discussion on another blog. I thought it useful to raise here. It’s a curious dynamic. Who we are under the mind, emotions and intellect is bliss. I’ve seen that overtly demonstrated …
How Big is the Mind of God?
It’s an interesting question to consider. Can we even comprehend the size of the mind of God? Certainly, we can say infinite, but infinity is usually associated with something like space. What of that which …
The Experience – Follow-up
The Experience article brought several questions up so I thought a little clarification was in order. I’ve touched on these subjects over time but a little specific context may help. The first part is the …
Awakening is not the End
In a forum, someone posted a teacher’s description of confusing experience with being and the actual shift from a me-sense to Self, otherwise known as Self Realization. However, the quote was full of absolute references …
Another Q&A 2
This is a continuation of the conversation on the first Q&A. In this thread, the questioner was mixing dualism with advaita. This is a common error, resulting from confusing the experience or the description of …
Story Hiccups
Life is funny. Over time, the mind has the tendency to make stories about life, to make sense of the world. Sometimes those stories support us but sometimes, they get in the way of seeing …