The Void
One of the ways people describe spiritual experiences sometimes, even as a quality of awakening, is with words like the void, the emptiness or boundless space or cosmos. They may associate this with “source” but …
Category: Presence
The Divine and Attachment
The response I gave my friend, as quoted on NonDuality and the Divine, brought some further questions. In section 2 I said “Subtle beings are literal thought-forms that are entirely pliable to intention.” He wanted …
Intimacy Requires a Division
When exploring the dynamics of Unity and devotion, there’s a key concept in the Vedas known as Lesha Avidya, the faint remains of ignorance. They use the analogy of a ball of butter. After you’ve …
Life Joy
Here’s a couple of clips with Lorne & Lucia I’ve enjoyed. Life Joy: the most important thing to “get”. On YouTube Being the Now: it’s not personal On YouTube This second clip is from a …
The Kingdom of God
“Someone who does not take a trip to the Kingdom of God (Transcendental Consciousness or samadhi), he remains searching for it – all pursuits, this and this, and greater pursuits. But unless totality is fathomed …
The Cosmic Story
I am inviting you, just as Papaji invited me, to stop telling the story. That is very different from making the story wrong. It is simply “Stop telling it.” Then there is an invitation to …
Self Sufficiency
Eckhart Tolle speaks of the pain body, what might be called our blob of unresolved experiences or incomplete emotions or karma. With the dawning of Cosmic Consciousness, we lose our attachment to a me and …
What is Parabrahman?
In a recent correspondence, a question came up about Parabrahman, something I briefly mentioned at the bottom of The Stages chart. The term Brahman is used to mean several things. Some refer to the experience …
The Lift
Chatting with a friend, it became apparent there is a common experience after the death of someone close to us. That is, the lifting off of an energetic load we’ve been carrying of theirs. While …
The Fear of Love
At a talk today, the minister Bruce Sanguin mentioned how the ego defends against love. Love requires surrender which the ego abhors. It has to consent to let it be. While the radio may be …
Bury the Dead
In many of the worlds traditions, we bury the dead or cremate them and bury the ashes. This is a good practice for several reasons. It returns the elements to the earth. But it also …
On Bliss
I’ve spoken here before about how Life is literally Bliss – the very flow of life itself is profoundly blissful if we’re open to that. The Upanishads tell us we’re born of bliss. I’ve also …