The Memory of Awakening
I was recently reminded of a useful point. Awakening is not a discovery of something new. It is the rediscovery of what you already are. Many people awakening recognize they have always been awake – …
Category: Mind
The Intellect and Intuition
A useful point arose in another forum I thought worth sharing here. Partly, it’s in distinguishing between judgment (mental conditioning) and discrimination. And partly it’s in distinguishing between intellect and intuition. When we use words …
What is Space and Time?
From What is Mind? it’s also worth noting the mind’s relationship with time and space. Science suggests that time is a fourth dimension of space but this is inaccurate. Space arises in self-aware consciousness. We …
What is Mind?
I was discussing the relationship between mind and consciousness in correspondence and posted a summary of that here. I then realized I was talking about cosmic mind and not how most people would relate to …
Awareness becomes Self-Aware (illustrated)
On articles here like Foundations, Creation- in a Nutshell, and The Big Picture, I’ve described the fundamental structure of existence and the origins of everything. However, this is highly abstract. A few years ago, while …
Recent Research on the Physiology of Initial Enlightenment
I’ve been writing articles on basic practices that support awakening here for some time. Key among them: on the different types of meditation, the difference between actual meditation and “guided meditation” (hypnosis), and the value …
Healing Process
In Layers of Healing, I talked about how we could discover issues that are physical, emotional, and energetic. We could add mind in there but that’s about equivalent to how I was using “energy” in …
An Intellectual Approach to Consciousness
Yesterday, I posted an article on David Chalmers talk at TED on the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Waiting in my browser was an interview with Bernardo Kastrup. Turns out Chalmers was one of the influences …
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Modern science has been struggling for some time with consciousness. It is subjective vs science’s objective approach. And yet it is intimate to our experience. Not to mention that consciousness keeps showing up as a …
Theft
In our culture, we take a dim view of theft. Stealing from another is unjust but because many also identify with their possessions as an aspect of themselves, they feel violated and fearful as a …
Possession
It’s a revealing thing that we refer to our belongings as “possessions”. (even “belongings” is revealing) The meaning is what we possess but in many ways, it is they who possess us. The stuff we …
The Truth
Back on Your Power of Command, I mentioned the importance of telling the truth. “…not telling the truth diffuses our power of command.“ Similarly, from DON Miguel Ruiz, in the very first Agreement of The …