The Layers
Recently, friends have been corresponding about “the mystery”. Can reality be known or is it destined to remain something of a mystery, greater than self-knowledge? My position is that we can know it when we …
Category: Principles
How We Know
I wrote before on 3 forms of knowing – through ideas, through experience, and through being. I’ve also talked about how our dominant sense can inform our experiences. But there’s another way we might distinguish …
Revealing Brahman
In a recent conversation, Rick Archer noted that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi used to say “The world reveals Brahman.” Another detail that illustrates a perspective beyond “the world is illusion.” Maharishi spoke of Brahman having 2 …
Perceiving Brahman
The title of this article is invalid. It’s designed to point to one of the paradoxes of Brahman. Brahman is a total unification that is inclusive of everything, including such subtle dualities as consciousness and …
Ideas make Stairs and Walls
Concepts can be very supportive of day-to-day living. We don’t realize how important they are until we see them being lost in the elderly or brain-injured. As energetic and physiological functioning breaks down, the ability …
In Humanity
An ongoing discussion has continued with many of the Sofia panel participants. You may have noticed a few spoke of our humanity and the importance of not abstracting ourselves away from that, even if there …
Sofia Panel Discussion
During the Science and Nonduality pre-conference, Rick Archer organized a large panel discussion at Sofia University. From the left: Laurie Moore, Susanne Marie, Mariana Caplan, Dana Sawyer, Francis Bennett, Craig Holliday (speaking), Kristin Kirk, Rick …
On Knowing
Due to the BATGAP interview and SAND talk, this blog is attracting many new readers. Some are coming in search of concepts that can help them make a better story about enlightenment. This is natural …
Nondualism and the Fallacies of Panpsychism and Artificial Sentience
I met Bernardo Kastrup in the San Francisco airport. He had just arrived from Amsterdam and a group of us were car pooling to the Science and Nonduality conference. I mentioned enjoying his talk there, …
Our Natural Potential talk @ SAND15
In October, I gave a Stages in Consciousness talk at the Science and Nonduality conference. Here is the talk synopsis. I was introduced by Rick Archer of Buddha at the Gas Pump fame. His talk …
The Transition
One of the changes people may experience with a major shift in consciousness is in the drivers of life. What used to drive us to action falls away to be replaced by something much deeper. …
BATGAP Interview Live
The Buddha at the Gas Pump interview is live on Youtube now and will be live on the BATGAP site shortly. If you didn’t see it, here’s a little context for where the interview is …