Auras
Auras are what we might call the perception of the light bodies or purushas, their perceptual appearance to our eyes. Such perception is easily triggered through simple exercises and practice but doesn’t serve much value …
Category: Mind
The Goal of Enlightenment
For many years, my top goal was enlightenment. Until I had kids, it trumped all aces, even career. And then one day, I saw that there was no such thing as the enlightenment I had …
Questions
Sometimes, what is more important than answers is questions. Answers will take you into the mind. Questions can take you past the mind. Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Am I? Who …
Conversation
On the journey of awakening, many aspects of the person fall away. Here and there, we can run into unexpected and amusing consequences for a short while during adaptation. Simple things like routine conversation can …
One Process
A question from a good friend drew out an important point. Recently, I’ve written still more about the way reality can change in posts like “What Changes?” Yet it doesn’t matter what model or way …
The Shadow Knows
In the opening of Within Bliss, I joked about the ‘spiritually positive’. Some New Age and New Thought communities are rife with ‘Think Positivists’, the idea that if you think happy you’ll be happy. Now, …
Fear vs Intuition
In a recent article, Dr. Judith Orloff talks about “How to Tell the Difference Between Fear and Intuition“. At first, the title surprised me as these are in many ways polar opposites. But then I …
Our Masks
We can say our story is a mask over the soul, as a I discussed in Awakening to the Soul. We can say the soul is a mask over the cosmic Purusha*. And Purusha is …
Awakening to the Soul
When we step into this world, we come with dreams and expectations designed in. Some of those dreams are the loves of the soul. Our most heartfelt wishes. Some of it is the shadow story. …
Perception is Every thing
It is interesting to consider some of the consequences of recent articles on the way our reality becomes. In Qualities and Quantities of Being, I outlined how Samkhya suggests the senses of perception and elements …
Qualities and Quantities of Being (Vaisheshika and Samkhya)
India has a very ancient spiritual tradition that has somehow survived the usual ravages of time. Partly because it has had periodic revivals, partly geography. Within that tradition are 6 systems of philosophy designed to …
Layers of OK
Many teachers speak of being OK with what is. Of being here now. Of being mindful or present. Of the present of presence. These are all ways of saying much the same thing. It is …