What is the Meaning of Easter?
Recently, I was asked by Kimberlie of Conscious Living Jewel to submit a short answer to the above question. She’s requested short responses from a number of people, including ones I’ve mentioned like Ishtar Ishaya …
Category: Waking
Moving and Still
For much of our life, we’ve been immersed in movement, in activity. But after we learn to meditate, we begin to experience stillness. Then things seem to have two states, moving and still, relative and …
Attachment
They define attachment as a bond or connection. Attachments functions on several levels. We have physical, emotional, conceptual, and structural attachments. Many attachments are beneficial, such as a child to its family. They’re a normal …
Perspectives of Sensing
There are several ways of seeing the relationship between senses and their objects, the elements. Our perspective can change. The senses themselves are obvious to us because of their mechanisms: the eyes, ears, and so …
The Vedic Perspective
Dr. Jack Purcell, a philosophy professor at Middle Tennessee State University, invited me to speak to his eastern philosophy class. I’m introduced by his son, Rishi. I offer a little history and a broad overview …
A Conversation with Andrew Hewson on Renunciate and Householder Paths
In our latest conversation, Andrew and I explored Householder and Renunciate approaches to life, the masculine and feminine emphasis, the gunas, relationships, and the role of devotion. on YouTube Transcript Thanks to the generous support …
Suma Interview
Suma runs a regular interview show. After exploring various new age topics, she’s shifted to spirituality. She’s interviewed some well-known teachers like Adyashanti and Tony Parsons, and many lesser-knowns too. We sat down on February …
The Contrast
On the one hand, a well-established enlightenment brings with it an immersion in profound intelligence, love, peace, and happiness. In contrast, we also experience the world’s suffering, our very human limitations, old karma arising (those …
The Role of The Intellect
I’ve been working on a translation of the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali. Ran into a point I thought worth expanding on. First, let’s review Samkhya. This is a dualistic philosophy from the Vedas that enumerates …
Potency
I’ve written before about the dynamics of consciousness and of healing. The key with healing is to make conscious our contractions and just experience them. Then the unresolved and resisted experiences complete. Our ability to …
A Conversation on ParaBrahman with Andrew Hewson
In our recent conversations, Andrew and I discussed Awakening (Self Realization or Cosmic Consciousness) with it’s refined compliment God Consciousness then Unity stage and Brahman stage with their Refined versions. In this conversation we’re discussing …
Gaining Abilities
I had a recognition recently that seems a little Sci-Fi Fantasy to describe. Essentially, our body expresses the cosmic body. In its ideal form or template, our body has all abilities. All the laws of …