The Judge
For most people, we’re identified with the ego and experience ourselves as a distinct individual. In such a case, the intellect gets associated with the mind and pulled around by it. A common way this …
Category: Practice
Merit vs Need of the Time
In the West, we see progress as based on merit. We see someone accomplished as having deserved it. It feels disheartening when our efforts don’t pan out. We feel it unjust when connections, rather than …
Yoga, A Bigger Picture
About two and a half years ago, I went to a Day of the Dead event. It turned out to be hosted by a Toastmasters club. As I give occasional talks and interviews, I knew …
Everything can be Used to Escape
A great conversation between Maggie and 2 of the teachers at the Centre for Healing: Matt Kay and Noel Haarburger. They explore bypassing and dissociation and how spiritual practices, somatic techniques, and healing practices can …
Resolving Karma
Karma means action. According to the Yoga Sutra, the cause of suffering is grasping at events we want more of and resisting what we don’t want. Part of the art of living is learning to …
Sleeping Elephants
Meditation instruction uses the analogy of sleeping elephants. The elephants are unresolved stress & trauma. When you meditate, you tiptoe through a field of sleeping elephants and reach a deep state. Sometimes, an elephant wakes …
Sleep or Samadhi?
Eva Müller posted an article on our meditation experience. During Meditations: Am I Sleeping or entering Samadhi? She raised key points about interpreting what’s happening in our subjective experience before samadhi is clear. It’s challenging …
Superstrings And Memory
Physics This article is going to discuss similarities between physics and memory. However, it’s important to understand that physics studies the physical world. It does not study qualities of consciousness. (And no, consciousness is not …
Raise Your Vibration
In the article “What It Really Means to Raise Your Vibration” by Eva Müller, she explores the distinction between the temporary favouring of what feels good and an ongoing shift in your energy state. This …
Core Spiritual Practices
In the West, we live in a very mind-oriented culture. A practice like an effortless mantra meditation is excellent for balancing that experience. It uses the mind to go beyond it, into our deeper nature. …
A Process Model of Awakening
Gareth of Endless Possibilities interviewed awake scientist Pierce Salguero. Pierce has proposed a non-stages model of awakening with 4 “threads” that we might think of as styles of experiencing the process. It’s a very inclusive …
Cracked Open
In this conversation, Riyaz Motan, Adyashanti, John Prendergast, and Johnathan Gustin explore the awakening journey with serious illness and facing our mortality. Having been through a round of this myself, along with the premature death …