Seer and Seen
In a discussion on Reframing Emotions, personal vs. impersonal perspectives arose. Seeing with the heart vs. seeing with the intellect. I’ve spoken of this a number of times, both on it’s role in the awakening …
Category: Perspective
Untethering Perception
In a discussion over on Shared Vision, some questions came up that drew out an answer worth posting. Is attention tethered perception? Does having an intention also create a tethering…? Can there be layers of …
Boundless Faith
Humans are at root social creatures. We have a need to relate and to belong. Thus, the popularity of social media on-line. The neighbourhood pub or cafe. Gathering together for celebrations, sports, and memorials. For …
Reframing Emotions
For many people, there are “good” emotions and “bad” emotions. Good emotions “make” us feel better, bad emotions “make” us feel worse. (“make” only because we identify with them as “mine”) As we’ve been discussing …
Success vs. Control
In a recent correspondence with a reader, I was asked how it is that some “spiritual” teachers talk of success, mastering the mind, and motivation, while others like Tom Stine speak of having absolutely no …
The Medium is Consciousness
I find it quite interesting how some articles will flow out completely differently than first intentions or original notes. For example, Fixing Negative Emotions was just going to be a compilation of some email correspondence. …
Fixing Negative Emotions
In a recent correspondence with one of the readers of the blog, I was asked how to change or fix negative emotions. They feel they had done the work but were still catching themselves responding …
Taking Care
One of the curious dynamics of being human is the tendency not to do what we know is good for us. Certainly some of this is due to things like the addictive properties of some …
An Infinite Crash
Awhile back, I wrote about reading an except from the book Collision with the Infinite by Suzanne Segal. Until now, the book hasn’t been available to read but I used the excerpt as an example …
Shared Vision
Each of us experiences everything uniquely. Every unique point of awareness is a unique way of perceiving the whole. If we have a strong ego sense, we’ll tend to identify with these experiences and say …
One Prediction of a Golden Age
A 10,000 year golden age is predicted in the Brahma-vaivarta Purana 4.129 by Krisna. Excerpts: “On the earth 5,000 years of Kali will be sinful and sinners will deposit their sins in you by bathing.” …
The Sevenness
I have spoken before about the mechanics of becoming. How the 1 unfolds into the 3, then into the 7. We see this in all sorts of aspects of experience and existence. Chakras, primary states …