The Shadow Knows
In the opening of Within Bliss, I joked about the ‘spiritually positive’. Some New Age and New Thought communities are rife with ‘Think Positivists’, the idea that if you think happy you’ll be happy. Now, …
Category: Writing
Fear vs Intuition
In a recent article, Dr. Judith Orloff talks about “How to Tell the Difference Between Fear and Intuition“. At first, the title surprised me as these are in many ways polar opposites. But then I …
Thinking vs Being
When you explore subjects like self actualization and success, you’ll hear messages like “what you believe you receive” or “pretend it to be it.” This may be true for the field of action, of thinking …
In Tune with the Infinite
Back in the 1970’s, I read an old book called In Tune with the Infinite. I really enjoyed it. I was reminded of it today… ”The great central fact in human life, in your life …
Thomas Berry
“We need a spirituality that emerges out of a reality deeper than ourselves, even deeper than life, a spirituality that is as deep as the earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar …
Freedom
“Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not choice. It is man’s pretense that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is …
Paul Hawken’s Commencement
Paul Hawken gave a Commencement Address to the graduating class of the University of Portland. “When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look …
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 …
volume
If you haven’t been by in the last couple of days, there’s been a rather large flow of articles. 15 in the last 2 days. This began with What is the Illusion? on the 26th …
Resisting Resistance
Over on Albert’s blog, Urban Monk, he wrote of how we secretly want to suffer. In a discussion in comments something came out I thought was interesting. If we understand that the ego-identity structure is …
When the Soul Awakens
At the end of last year, I wrote an article on the final What the Bleep newsletter. It had several articles on past lives, including Knowing You’ve Lived Before by Martin Vieweg and Nancy Seifer. …
Biocentrism
The most recent issue of Discover magazine has an interesting article on “Biocentrism”. The basic idea is that the physical universe is created by life or consciousness and time and space are mental constructs. As …