The Dark Night(s)
Reading the spiritual literature in most traditions, you’re sure to run into some references to an emotionally difficult patch or spiritual crisis. Recently, St. John’s term “Dark Night of the Soul” has come to be …
Category: Perspective
The Personal
In How to Know God, I talked about the Personal mode of experiencing. Lets explore that a little more deeply. In the west the majority of people believe in angels. Yet if someone were to …
How to Know God
In a discussion group, someone was asking how to have a relationship with God without the experience. In our western culture, we don’t have the common devotional examples they have in the east. In traditional …
What Wakes Up?
A recent question brought up another perspective on something we’ve talked about before, so I thought I’d share what arose. What is it that wakes up? What becomes enlightened? Awareness is already awake to Itself. …
Why Do We Have A Karmic Backlog?
In a forum discussion, the following point arose I thought worth sharing: Why do we end up with such a backlog of karma? Before we explore the answer, it would be good to review the …
The Puzzle of Life
Life can be quite the puzzle sometimes. In one moment, our desires can be fulfilled in miraculous ways. In another moment, we meet nothing but barriers. And in another, what we had built seems to …
Age of Sorrow, Age of Wakefulness
A friend sent me this: Sorrow has been a constant companion for many of us, and yet we are content with the mind’s interpretation of what it is. What if sorrow is not what it …
Sacred Gifts
“There are 2 very significant events in your life. One is when you are born; the other is when you discover why.” –unknown Last weekend, I took an excellent workshop called Discover Your Sacred Gifts. …
10 Spiritually Transmitted Diseases
Mariana Caplan is a Psychotherapist and PhD who has written several books I’ve not read, like Eyes Wide Open: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path and Halfway Up the Mountain: The Error of Premature Claims …
Breaking
Awakening isn’t what’s so damn difficult. The difficult part is cutting the legs out of the super structure of our own illusion. Let your heart break, you’re supposed to fail at this. There’s nothing wrong …
The Rational Heart
We pride ourselves in being rational people living in a rational community. But are we? In Chapter 6 of Entangled Minds, Dean Radin raises the “rational man” issue. We assume that science is a rational …
We’re Entangled
I’ve finally had a chance to begin reading Dr. Dean Radin’s book Entangled Minds. He’s a long-term scientific researcher of psi (psychic ability) now with the Institute of Noetic Sciences. His history includes Bell Labs, …