What About Bliss?
Susanne Marie and Pierre talk about bliss and modes of experience (body, heart, mind). Being more conceptually oriented, I relate to the experience a bit differently. As a fine vibration, as flow, as joy, as …
Category: Waking
Trauma Remaining Post-Enlightenment
Jerry Freeman felt the message about the need for healing trauma post-enlightenment was very important. He asked Nancy Benda to compile parts of our conversations from comments here on the blog and in another forum …
Ishita on Embodiment
Are you friends with your body? Many of us have pulled back out of the body because of we’ve not learned to regulate our nervous system and resolve trauma. We hang out in our mind …
Perspectives of Brahman
Recently, I had an extended discussion with Jerry Freeman about the use of terms like Brahman and ParaBrahman. It became clear that our different use of the words was because of a different experience of …
An Evolving Perspective: Realization vs Embodiment
Over the years, my understanding of our natural potential has evolved quite a bit. Certainly, there’s the difference between conceptual ideas and direct experience, but there are many nuances as well. I originally studied Maharishi’s …
Transcend, Then Transcend Transcending
“This is ‘nivartadvam.’ Whatever we experience, transcend it until there is nothing more to transcend. Then transcend that nothingness and be active again. Transcend dynamism, then transcend silence. Then, when silence and dynamism are co-existing, …
Adjusting To Self Realization
One thing about becoming more conscious after awakening (and sometimes prior) is we become more aware of our narratives and programming. We see through and discard some of this. Things we once considered important can …
Dorothy Rowe and Eva Müller
Recently, Eva Müller interviewed Dorothy Rowe. It was a wonderful conversation about babies, parenting, transformation, energy healing, and spiritual evolution. Dorothy was in an especially devotional space, even with her analytical ability. “The Transformative Power …
Awakening Beyond Unity: No-Self and Brahman, with Susanne Marie and John Rogers
Susanne Marie mentioned the anniversary of her conversation with Adyashanti on BATGAP. I’d also written an article on the interview as it was excellent, plus a great example of the variations in “gut” release. John …
A Conversation with Eva
Recently, Eva Muller and I had a conversation about the stages of enlightenment, exploring various nuances of the process. We started with an overview of the process. Then we went into witnessing and Self Realization. …
Validation
For the average person, our mind runs the show, getting most of its information about the world from the senses and memory. Because the identified mind is focused this way, we look outside of ourselves …
Truth Has No Sides, Second Conversation
I had two interviews with the Truth Has No Sides podcast in August. The first interview went up in September. We explored some of the spiritual journey and various related topics. In this second interview, …