Intimate Connection on the Spiritual Path
Celebrating a True Friendship Today I celebrate the birthday of a dear friend. I want to share my thoughts and feelings about this relationship for the benefit of those that may seek or desire something similar. It’s hard to believe it has been nineteen years since I met my friend Kara in a process work group called Awaken in the Dream. The group was a powerful place to meet someone because it was a space where members would share their vulnerabilities, dreams, and deepest inner processes...
Embracing the Shift: Navigating Turbulent Times with a Higher Perspective
Discovering Empowerment and Peace in the Midst of Chaos Welcome to this space, a sanctuary for exploring the profound changes our world is experiencing through a spiritual lens. This isn’t about adhering to any specific religious or spiritual dogma, but rather about embracing a broader spiritual understanding to navigate these turbulent times and understand our personal roles within them. How we perceive these times and ourselves fundamentally shapes the outcomes we create. Our world holds...
Spirituality, Reality and the Simulation Hypothesis
Reality as a mind created simulation The most basic questions of the human experience come down to — What am I and What is the meaning of life or What is truly real? Philosophy and religion have been the primary means of approaching these questions for most of human history and they have done a remarkable job of looking into the depths of experience. From the old earth based faiths that personified the processes of nature and how to live in harmony with them, to Plato and his allegory of...
The Snake and the Rope
Maya and the True Nature of Reality Is the world you perceive truly real? Not many people ask this question but I have been obsessed with it most of my life. A powerful way of looking at this is offered by the Indian tradition of Advaita Vedanta. We mostly take the body and the world to be reality. Yet many spiritual traditions tell us this isn’t actually the final truth. They suggest that the world we perceive with our mind and senses is illusory (this includes the body) and is often referred...
Living from the Heart
On Being your true Self Most of us don’t question the identity we have come to believe in. That is, we take ourselves to be the person that is going through this life experience. That person has an identity or personality which has taken shape over many years and after much conditioning. Do you consider yourself as a person to be what you truly are? When we were first born we didn’t have an identity. We didn’t even know ourselves as a person nor could we differentiate ourselves from others or...
Unveiling Reality
A Walk Into the Depths of Being The night seemed unusually dark given that the moon was nearly full. Maybe it was the mist which had only grown thicker since the man left for his evening walk on a narrow little trail through the winding hills just down from his house. This is the trail he would take when his mind was troubled because the feeling of the forest around him usually offered some solace. Not this night. As he walked down the road he tried to forget the troubles of work and his...
The Misery of not Being Yourself
The power of play as a way of living We are in the midst of a raging pandemic! It is not a biological pandemic like Covid, no, its a lot more persistent than that. The pandemic I’m referring to is a pandemic of misery. When you take a step back and look at human civilization it becomes apparent pretty quick that most humans are experiencing some degree of misery. The symptoms of it are everywhere when you consider the state of our societies. People who are happy and peaceful do not...
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