What is Consciousness? – part 1 of 3
I’ve been invited to contribute to the on-line magazine Science to Sage. It’s a graphically rich magazine that shares the works of a number current thinkers and artists. Each issue is themed and the March …
Category: Perspective
The Real News
If you read a typical newspaper or watch TV News, you’ll hear a litany of drama. What’s wrong and who’s to blame. So much of it is not even news at all but projection – …
Bad Habits?
One of the more ironic expectations of enlightenment is something like “enlightenment will fix it” or “enlightenment will fix me.” Now, loosing identification with the ego in awakening can be a big change. But in …
Why is there Suffering?
One of the questions we all face at some point in our life – and one that may also haunt us for a while – is the question of suffering. Why am I having these …
Unity and Brahman
There’s another key way of differentiating between Unity and Brahman. In Cosmic Consciousness or Self Realization, we recognize ourselves as the Seer or Observer. In Unity, we recognize the same Seer in the objects of …
Expectations and Experience
Expectations can have a strong effect on our experience of life. If we have heavier feelings about life, we’ll tend to have lower or darker expectations. Because what we put our attention on grows stronger, …
Components of Consciousness
If we understand that all experiences are derived from consciousness and arise in consciousness, we have a deep sense of the nature of the world. From that, you may view all as consciousness. This perspective …
Bruce Lipton and Tom Campbell
This summer, MBT Events toured physicist Tom Campbell around the west coast to speak with other cutting edge thinkers and recorded the conversations. In this chat, Dr. Campbell met with epigenetic biologist Bruce Lipton. It …
Gratitude for Self
I’ve spoken here a lot about the importance of gratitude. Being thankful for what’s in our lives helps culture an openness and allowing. It also helps enable support. But there’s a deeper aspect of gratitude …
Empty is OK
Nancy’s talk brought up a key point: People often fear what they don’t understand. In our culture, we’re taught to fear empty space. Children often have an experience of that expansive openness. But when not …
Presence
One of the key qualities of spiritual progress can be a growing sense of presence, of being in the moment rather than in the mind. The mind alone brings us anxiety about the future or …
Grace is Brahman
When people say they awoke through grace, they mean through something higher as yet unseen. It may be strongly felt but is still deeper than direct knowing and being. They recognize it is not the …