Who Speaks?
In the recent post The Power of Speech, I touched on the power of the voice and value of speaking from truth rather than stories. After awakening, this dynamic becomes more conscious. It becomes clear …
Category: Mind
Wither Goeth Ego?
If you read much spiritual literature from different traditions, you’ll quickly find a plethora of conflicting information about human awakening. The main issue is that we tend to think, and some teachers encourage, that awakening …
Omniscience
Omniscience is a very big subject. (laughs) It is all knowing. But not about knowing all things. It is about knowing all knowing. Total knowingness. This can be very hard for the mind to grasp. …
Good Resistance
I talk a lot here about resistance. How we can recognize it and how to allow and let it go. How some will call it stress or karma or identification. But we should not demonize …
I am the Stadium
Jim Carrey, speaking at an Eckhart Tolle event. He speaks about intention, why we’re here, how everything is happening inside you, and that I am everything and it’s so much fun… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSTHPABoHc Jim shares an …
Awake Asleep
My early understandings of higher states of consciousness and enlightenment came from various sources but the one clearest to me was the one in Campbell’s 7 States of Consciousness. In that model, the experience of …
Remembering Spirit
Occasionally, I have written about Deep Memory, the subtle structure of being itself. At it’s most fundamental, it is Veda, pure knowledge. In prior posts, I’ve mentioned the value of spiritual study. In essence this …
Unfolding God
The direct experience of God is one of the most significant events in anyones life. Even more profound to live it, to become what has been experienced. At it’s crown, this is God Realization. And …
The Event Horizon
Recently, I ran into an interesting science article that illustrates how science can come ever closer to a consciousness model, yet not even be considering that as its conceptual framework. Our world may be a …
Heaps of Identification
In a completely unrelated browse, I ran into the Buddhist concept of Skandhas. This is similar to what I was just reviewing around Yogananda’s discussion of the levels of ego identification – physical, astral, causal …
Deeper I-Ness
Another process Yogananda reviewed was the evolution of the ego self. What we might call the concept of self or the level of identification. First thing to note is that he describes our person as …
The Seat of the Soul
Recently, I was reading some of Yogananda‘s commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (the Song of God, a key section of the Mahabharata where Krishna teaches Arjuna about the ways of action, yoga, etc.) In it, …