Housecleaning
I’ve noticed that as people get into energy healing, they can get a little obsessed with cleaning. They’re always looking for the slightest resistance, shadow, or dark entity to clear. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s …
Category: Practice
Three Kinds of Shadow
I talk about shadow in various ways. Shadow is essentially unresolved experiences that sit in our physiology (physical, emotional, mental, etc.) and distort our current experiences. It has a hiding quality, making it hard to …
The Steps of Progress
Often, we have the idea we should be constantly moving forward towards our goals. However, life is cyclic and seasonal. Sometimes, its the season for progress, and sometimes the season for rest. We see these …
Stages of Meditation
First, I’ll note this is observations of the process. This is for verification of experience, not something to achieve, a technique, or a way to manipulate your experience. As readers of the blog know, I …
Stages of Flying
A discussion from the recent Tips article leads to some points worth discussing on Yogic flying. Why would we even practice siddhis (abilities)? We’re unlikely to get any good at many of them, simply because …
The Written Word
The written word is a curious effect of a darker age. In higher ages, we can communicate more directly, so writing isn’t required. The development of writing is actually a symptom of lower consciousness. Writing …
Elemental Healing
I often write here about energy healing as it’s very useful to understand the principles. This can help us process what is coming up in our experience and resolve it. So often, we resist or …
Our Emotional World
Emotions are a subjective way of experiencing energy flows in the energy body. Water element is dominant on this layer (kosha), so they flow in and out, like waves on the seashore. Deeper, we experience …
Gaining Enlightenment
This title is misleading. We don’t “gain” enlightenment. Rather, the cosmic Self or presence wakes up to itself and we shed the personal me. Losing our sense of who we are may seem a major …
The Possessed Self
The distinctions between aspects of self have been a regular topic here. The I-sense ego (Ahamkara) is that sense of being distinct, separate from others and objects of the world. This is my hand (self) …
Before Meditation
Readers of this blog know I recommend an effortless meditation as a foundational spiritual practice. This is because it cultures samadhi, the basis of Yoga. The repeated experience of pure consciousness reveals itself as our …
The Three Qualities of Consciousness
Recently, I saw reference to a talk by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi called “The Three Qualities of Transcendental Consciousness: Unboundedness, Bliss, and the Home of All Knowledge.” Transcendental Consciousness is another term for pure consciousness, consciousness …