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 …
Category: Practice
Pride and Humility
Back on the Aura Reading post, my joke about stubbornness lead to an off-line question. In sharing the response here, it evolved into something new. I wouldn’t describe stubbornness as necessarily associated with pride. It …
Aura Reading
Over the years on this blog I’ve talked about refined perception, the koshas or auras, and other aspects of our energetic nature. Recently I’ve been talking some about Rose Rosetree and chakra databanks. Rose has …
Mantra Use
I’ve talked here a number of times about mantras, but mainly in the context of meditation. Recently I talked some about how everything is vibration and thus Word or mantra. In the west, we see …
A Compulsion to Recreate the Past
A long while back, I wrote a bit about Eva Pierrakos, a channel who brought out Pathwork in the 50’s through 70’s. I’ve only read a little of the material but found it quite insightful. …
Mantra and the World
As readers of this blog know, I recommend an effortless mantra meditation rather than one using concentration or similar. This is because a mantra is a sound with known effects. If we try to use …
Intention in Meditation
The foundation of Yoga, indeed the foundation of spiritual practice is mantra meditation. Why? Because it’s the most reliable way for regular contact with source, with our own pure being. As regular readers know, I …
Energy Modalities
Back in a discussion of Yugas, I noted that by Yukteswar’s calculations, we have moved into the Energy age (Dwapara). Along with the discovery of electricity and atomic energy, a number of energy healing modalities …
A Second Childhood
The experience varies but for some, awakening can be like a second childhood. Like we’re going back to school and relearning about what life is. Also because it’s a process of progressively deeper surrender. A …
Create Your Reality, Now
It’s very popular in New Age circles to want to self-empower people and help them recognize the impact their thinking has on their reality. However, if you blend that with the typical ego attachments, it …
Transformation
True transformation is a change in being, a change in who we recognize ourselves to be. It is not an experience that passes but stays with us. A spiritual journey is typically filled with a …
Gradations (and Styles) of Awakening
We can say that there is ‘not awake’ and ‘awake’. Like waking from sleep, we are sleeping or we’re awake. But we can notice that there can be gradations in the waking process. A point …