Our Deepest Knots
I’ve been working though a bit of a backlog of old article ideas. A good while back I took a yoga class with an even more effortless, bliss-producing approach. They spoke about our deepest burdens. …
Category: Philosophy
6 Stages of Becoming
You may wonder how there can be so many ways of describing the structure of the world. Which one is the “right” one? But as Albert Einstein so beautifully noted, everything is relative to the …
The Origins of Form
While science is dominated by a materialist paradigm that sees the physical world as the foundation of reality, some of the more ancient studies of the nature of reality place consciousness at the centre instead …
Q&A, Part 4
At this point in the discussion, I’m replying to several people. I’m not including the questions generally because this is an international discussion and some are using English awkwardly. It would not be appropriate to …
Q&A, Part 3
It’s rare such back and forth continues. But there was more. This continues from Q&A 2… I have some other writing to come but life has other demands at the moment. … When acting, if …
Q&A, Part 2
Afer a short pause the back and forth mentioned in the prior article continued, with some side debate on issues with my approach. Again, edited slightly for context. … As I discussed prior, it depends …
The Value of a Life – Guru Dev
Periodically in history there comes someone who radiates presence so profoundly, they move a generation who go on to change the world. While the changers are celebrated, we can lose sight of the source of …
The Worlds and Gayatri – part 1
Recently, a discussion brought up the Gayatri mantra and the Lokas or worlds described in some of the eastern texts. I’ve touched on the lokas before, but more from the context of layers. The world …
A Christian Perspective on Awakening
In June 2013, Francis Bennett did a 2 hour talk and Q&A at Morning Star Studios in Fairfield, Iowa. He was long a Trappist monk who explored world faiths and paths and awoke during a …
Brain, Mind, and Consciousness
This is a summary of some discussion points made in another forum on the topic of the origin of consciousness. This is one of those chicken and egg arguments. First, that consciousness is an effect …
Karma?
In another non-spiritual forum, the idea of karma came up and some pretty poor ideas were expressed about it. I wrote an article to explain it. I’ve edited it here for context and supplemented it …
Conscience to Consciousness
In human growth and development, we follow a track some suggest reflects our evolution as a species. In the terminology of Loevinger’s Ego stages, we go through Symbiotic, Impulsive (terrible 2’s) and Self-Protective stages as …