Our Drivers
Becoming self-aware and learning to recognize where we have work to do can be a difficult process. But the difficulty is only in the complexity and the discomfort of seeing our shadows. It also requires …
Category: Psychology
Practical Doing
There is a tendency in spiritual circles to blame things on karma. “It didn’t work out because of my karma.” Or “My karma made this a bad experience.” But this understanding is poor. Karma means …
Types of Self
When people use the English word “self” or any of its variations (myself, himself, etc.), they may refer to one or several things. Most commonly, they’re talking about the personal self or me. Yet if …
Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think
Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think is an essay by Bernardo Kastrup posted in Scientific American. It’s based on a paper published in Europe’s Journal of Psychology. I met Bernardo at SAND15 2 years ago. …
Karma Time
Recent events with getting the book out have brought some very old resistance to the fore. I recognized the old lifetime in play. And that lead to a useful insight about karmic stores. I’m a little surprised …
The Four Dispositions
Swami Brahmananda Saraswati was a man who spent much of his life in seclusion. He left home at age 9 to find a guru and spent much of his life in remote forests of India. …
Selfish Mindfulness
An interesting article in The Washington Post on how Mindfulness is being “diluted and distorted by the prevailing narcissism of our time.” Mindfulness would be good for you. If it weren’t so selfish. Similar things …
Emotional Healing
We digest everything we consume: food, drink, sensations, and experiences. Some of our thoughts and emotions are a symptom of this background processing, although more is done at night in dreams. However, it’s batch processing …
Two Kinds of Resistance
As Yoga describes, there are two basic kinds of resistance to what is. The first is Grasping. This is trying to hold on to what passes through our lives. We try to hold on to …
Fear of Flow
Stillness is needed for awakening. Not just the deep stillness we notice in meditation, but a stillness even in activity. When alertness and clarity of stillness are at a peak, seeing happens. As Yoga (1v2-3) …
Polishing
Refined perception results from polishing the physiology on each level and increasing clarity. I’ve spoken of how purification helps bring clarity and soma refines the structure of the body. But what causes polishing? Daily experiences …
The Conflict of Ego
Awareness is aware of itself both globally and at every point within itself. It is simultaneously fully aware and collapsing to a point at every point. And further, that point is expanding back out again …