Complete Forgiveness
Today, a series of articles on several blogs were posted on Forgiveness. This is a response to some of the feedback I’ve received. In no particular order. NOTE – if you land here first, you …
Category: Relationship
Deep Forgiveness
Takuin and Albert (Urban Monk) decided to post on the subject of Forgiveness on the same day. They invited me and others to do the same. It’s an important subject and a good time of …
Levels of Power – Part 2
Chakras Caroline Myss also spoke about chakras. She called them “data banks”, observing that everything is recorded, every thought. I would suggest it’s better to suggest that its stored in the entire energy system, not …
Awake Dating
While I would certainly not call myself a dating expert, I thought it would be useful to consider how it changes with dating consciously and awakening. A lot of what we call “chemistry” is emotional …
More Sex and Spirituality
Recently, Tom Stine raised the question of Sex and Spirituality. Is celibacy necessary or is sex a natural part of spirituality? This drew out many comments. There was a surprising degree of commonality given the …
Divine Relationship
In a number of spiritual and religious traditions, there is the role of Bhakti or devotion. The path of the heart. Usually, it is presented as a devotion to God or a representative of God …
Conversation
On the journey of awakening, many aspects of the person fall away. Here and there, we can run into unexpected and amusing consequences for a short while during adaptation. Simple things like routine conversation can …
Empathic Relationship
A few years ago, I met Dr. Judith Orloff after a talk she gave on being Empathic. She’s a psychiatrist and remarkably intuitive. During a Q&A period, she in some cases ignored a persons question, …
Pain holds us All
In the past, I’ve spoken of the mesh, the threads of connection we hold with our past. At the connection or node of each of these ‘threads’ is a grip. A holding, a knot of …
Writing on Spirit
What is the value of writing about spirit, something that cannot be described? What is the value of words about reality when each of us has a unique one? When words are dead things, symbols …
The Excuse
Last night, I heard part of a Dr. Bruce Lipton talk for the second time. In it, he speaks of the concept of Genetic Determinism, the idea that our genetic code determines our experience of …
Sex and Spirituality
In a discussion on the Self Realization post, one commenter raised the question of celibacy and the spiritual path, suggesting abstinence and many years of continual celibacy were necessary for enlightenment. Until recent times, there …