The Secret Powers of Time
I’ve written here a number of times on time, our perception of time and how our relationship with time influences how we experience the world. Time first arises from the process of perception itself so …
Category: Psychology
Life Leaks Out
Life can be a very curious journey. Because of all our expectations, history, and conditioning, we often end up conflicted about things that are important to us. Money, work, relationships, and so forth. We can …
Concepts vs Being
In another forum, the basic issue with concepts arose. Edited for the blog. There is a very subtle but important point. We hear someone we respect say something and we believe it to be true. …
The Insistent Concept
In another forum was another voice for the world as illusion and only awareness is real and eternal so there is no process and nothing to do. Just see this. Or rather think you see …
Surrender Date
Recently, I had one of those curious experiences where I started to look at a different career direction, then the means in question vanished. Later that same day, I went to a talk on book …
Gulf Oil
The oil volcano in the Gulf of Mexico is certainly an active topic, both in the news and in spiritual communities. As one notable broadcast clarifies, the incident is not new, nor has the recovery …
Dead Ends
Most of us find certain points in our life’s journey where we face what can seem like an impossible decision. A damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario. These can be so prominent …
The Story Tells a Story
If you’ve done any self-work to any depth, you’ve undoubtedly run into our story-telling nature. We love a good story. But sadly, we also like lousy stories, stories that bring us pain and sadness. People …
Lost Purpose
Spiritual writers often talk a lot about subjects like ego identification and the suffering that results from it. We may get the sense that ego is bad, but this is a misunderstanding of its role …
Disasters
When a disaster strikes, either natural or man made, we may find ourselves feeling helpless and at the mercy of chance. We may feel compelled to act, perhaps through donation. But we may also want …
The hidden influence of social networks
An interesting TED talk by Nicholas Christakis on the influence our social network has on us and we on others – even people we don’t know. He discovered that the “widower effect” was not exclusive …
Processing Grief
Recently, I looked up some writing I’d done on Grief and discovered I’d never posted it. While I’ve touched on the subject itself on a number of occasions, I’d not posted about the process of …