Relationships Reforged
I’ve spoken recently about the shift in Security and Goals that occur with awakening. Another thing that can have a major shift is relationships, especially intimate ones. While we may have spent a lifetime learning …
Category: Perspective
Security of Person
One of the deep changes that arises with awakening is a profound sense of security. While we’ve typically experienced the rest of our life as somewhat fraught and difficult, when we discover our true nature …
Knowing God
In the past, I’ve spoken here about How to Know God or Experiencing God. But I thought it might be useful to review how this experience may unfold. Different people will experience the process uniquely, …
Myths of Enlightenment
While there are many reasons to seek enlightenment, there are also a boatload of myths about it. Some are even perpetuated by teachers. I will become enlightened Nope. It is not the me that gets …
Goals Going Gone
One of the interesting effects I’ve observed with the awakening process is the falling away of goals. Not typically all goals, but the vast majority gradually fade away as no longer relevant. This is a …
Male and Female Paths
Funny how ideas sneak up on you. How the grander picture often emerges in increments. For example, I’ve long known of higher states of consciousness. More recently, I’ve shown a more complete model, like this: …
Pattern Recognition
One of the primary features of the human mind is pattern recognition – the ability to recognize the inherent structure of nature by the patterns we perceive in form and phenomena. We can explore the …
The Energy Bodies (Koshas)
I first began talking about the energy bodies here in 2009. When I came back to the topic in more detail about a year ago, a definition error crept in I should have caught. Firstly, …
Sacred Cows
If you enjoyed the film What the Bleep, one of it’s makers, Betsy Chasse, has recently published a book called Tipping Sacred Cows. In this case, the Sacred Cows are our personal stories about the …
Seer, Sage, or Shanti
There’s a pernicious idea people often have that the awake are supposed to teach. That enlightenment somehow gives you a teaching mission. I’ve seen a number of such people start teaching, then fade away. Or …
Where is the Soul?
Over the years, I’ve heard many descriptions of where in the body the soul resides. By soul, I mean the spark of our being. Some talk about it as kundalini, coiled in the root chakra …
Karma and the Gunas
In the Gunas in Awakening, I talked about how inertia is transformed into clarity with fire, tamas into sattva via rajas. In this article, I’m going to talk more about karma. Karma means action, movement, …