If you read much spiritual literature from different traditions, you’ll quickly find a plethora of conflicting information about human awakening. The main issue is that we tend to think, and some teachers encourage, that awakening …
Omniscience is a very big subject. (laughs) It is all knowing. But not about knowing all things. It is about knowing all knowing. Total knowingness. This can be very hard for the mind to grasp. …
Jim Carrey, speaking at an Eckhart Tolle event. He speaks about intention, why we’re here, how everything is happening inside you, and that I am everything and it’s so much fun… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSTHPABoHc Jim shares an …
My early understandings of higher states of consciousness and enlightenment came from various sources but the one clearest to me was the one in Campbell’s 7 States of Consciousness. In that model, the experience of …
Occasionally, I have written about Deep Memory, the subtle structure of being itself. At it’s most fundamental, it is Veda, pure knowledge. In prior posts, I’ve mentioned the value of spiritual study. In essence this …
There is a rather distinctive experience that happens on the journey of awakening. A blinding white flash that obliterates all experience for a short time. I’ve seen it described with waking, with the unity switch, …
From a discussion in another forum on the value of talking about a coming new age: I agree that a focus on the future or on the past is missing the point. However a lot …
Apologies for the lag in posts. I spent a week on retreat and it’s taking a little time to get caught up. The retreat with LornLucia (a name symbolic of their unity) was quite distinct …
Quite a few people have been speaking of a dawning new age, an Age of Enlightenment or Golden Age. We find the world in a curious place right now. On the one hand, unprecedented numbers …
The direct experience of God is one of the most significant events in anyones life. Even more profound to live it, to become what has been experienced. At it’s crown, this is God Realization. And …
Recently, I ran into more of the story of Bernadette Roberts. When she was a Carmelite nun, she had a superior who believed she was deceived or under Satan’s grasp for experiencing pure silence. As …
It recent readings, it occurs to me there is 2 opposite approaches to the spiritual journey here. The Bhagavad Gita presents the spiritual journey as a battle to overcome ego, mind and sense control. In …