The Gap Trap
Models of human development can be very useful on the journey. They give context to our experiences and help us open to the new and unexpected. They give language to our unfolding experience. However, if …
Category: Psychology
Bits of Time
Time is a very curious thing. Some say it’s an illusion but I’d suggest it’s better to understand it as an experiential effect. Fundamentally, the seed of time arises in the initial dynamics of creation. …
The Buddha still had Bad Days
A nice little clip on Enlightenment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOzH1ycoBYQ A few quotes: “..you will not meet a physically manifested being who is in alignment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.” “…the big waves no longer …
Solving Problems
Recently, I attended an afternoon workshop by Mark McCooey, a very successful businessman involved in multiple industries and several non-profits. The workshop covered problem-solving techniques he’s developed, based partly on the work of Byron Katie. …
Making a Living through Precession (Bucky Fuller)
In 1927, R. Buckminster Fuller committed himself and his family to working as he saw nature working. He documents this process, and the spiritual experience he had that started it, in his book Critical Path …
Your Elusive Creative Genius
This is a clip from a few years back but I’ve frequently sent the link to writers and other creatives and it came up again today. I thought it was time to share it here. …
What is Consciousness? – part 1 of 3
I’ve been invited to contribute to the on-line magazine Science to Sage. It’s a graphically rich magazine that shares the works of a number current thinkers and artists. Each issue is themed and the March …
The Real News
If you read a typical newspaper or watch TV News, you’ll hear a litany of drama. What’s wrong and who’s to blame. So much of it is not even news at all but projection – …
Bad Habits?
One of the more ironic expectations of enlightenment is something like “enlightenment will fix it” or “enlightenment will fix me.” Now, loosing identification with the ego in awakening can be a big change. But in …
Why is there Suffering?
One of the questions we all face at some point in our life – and one that may also haunt us for a while – is the question of suffering. Why am I having these …
Expectations and Experience
Expectations can have a strong effect on our experience of life. If we have heavier feelings about life, we’ll tend to have lower or darker expectations. Because what we put our attention on grows stronger, …
Question Affirmations
During Nancy’s workshop, she made an interesting suggestion. She suggested you frame affirmations as a question, placing the future in the present. For example, “What will I need to accomplish X?” The question assumes it …