A blossom for Blossom Wow! Did this passage from Blossom (A) solve an age-old question for me and (B) get me out of a dilemma. Then the preparation, whilst outside the door, is simply coming to a place within yourself of KNOWING MORE OF THAT KNOWING. That knowing is a FEELING, right? Correct. AS EACH […]
Our Natural Innocence and Native Purity
Whomever it was who took the Internet down recently proved they could do it. It wasn’t a solar flare. Here’s the area that a solar flare would have hit: Credit: https://downdetector.com/ (1) Not the U.S., etc. I like to think it was white hats but we await some official word. Until it comes, I favor […]
To Know God is not an Easy Matter, Until One Becomes a Knower of One’s Self
Ibn Arabi: “To know God is not an easy matter, until one becomes a knower of one’s self.” (1) Al-Ghazzali: “He who knows himself knows God.” (2) The illusory, apparently-individuated entity known as the “Self” is like a Babushka doll. Whatever its original form might have been, that’s the largest of the dolls. And we […]
Do All the Divine Qualities Reside in the Heart?
As a result of writing a previous article, I saw that I was creating my joy in a moment of realization. I wondered if I couldn’t create happiness as well. So I called up happiness from my heart on the inbreath and sent it out to the world on my outbreath. And, yes, I could […]
How Many Other Doors Are There?
This article was delayed – and is therefore out of chronological order – by the posting of the article on my recent download and rollercoaster ride. The Self is pure and innocent. I’ve experienced its purity and innocence (1) so, in the sense that the Federation of Light uses the word, I know that to […]
Let’s Go! Let’s Grow! – Part 1/2
Long and reflective. A lot of interesting conversations going on backstage, stirred up by Matthew’s last message. One piece of feedback that arose was that I’m being too intellectual in trying to understand spiritual states. While we’re all recovering from the holidays, maybe it’s a good time to push back the chair and reflect. And […]
Let’s Go! Let’s Grow! – Part 2/2
(Concluded from Part 1, above.) A word about awareness and “getting in touch with” something. In a three-month residential encounter group I did in 1975-6, even critics who were habitually driven to point out blemishes “got in touch with” what was driving them And it turned out they were just like everyone else except starved […]
Love and Awareness as a Path Home
An awareness writer writes about what’s right here, right now. One who is not an awareness writer might gloss over it, censor themselves, and so on. In many occupations – such as the military, surgical, aeronautical – it won’t be appropriate to be dwelling on how we feel about something, what we notice about […]
Other Voices on Where the Self “Lives”
Three days till 11/11. When, at Xenia Retreat Center in Sept. 2018, I ventured in meditation into the very bottom of my heart, the depths of my heart, called the Seat of the Soul, I there found the Light of the Self. (1) But, after the experience, I was filled with doubts. The soul doesn’t […]
Whitney: Coming Home to Ourselves
Steve: Beautifully put, Whitney, and conforms to/expresses my experience as well. While the spiritual journey is rarely a linear one with clearly defined footpaths, signposts, and support, it certainly has a thread that runs through it. This thread is ourselves! However our spiritual journeys move us, wherever they make take us, the one constant is […]
Brilliant Songwriting for the Mother’s New Time
In “Karma,” Swift sings, “Ask me what I learned from all those years / Ask me what I earned from all those tears.” Imprisoned for life, Joe Garcia finds solace and meaning in Taylor Swift’s music. Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison By Joe Garcia, The New Yorker, September 2, 2023 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/listening-to-taylor-swift-in-prison The first time […]
Ego Still Around
The toned-down Self I saw was luminous rather than brilliant While I’m aware of the actor/participant or “witness” in the drama of my life, and while I’ve even seen a moderated or toned-down version of it, (1) I personally wouldn’t say that I’ve realized it. I’ve called realization seeing from a higher level, (2) which […]
I Reap the Harvest
I’m more and more realizing the idiocy of claiming to be an “expert.” I’m left musing after reading Marilyn’s thought-provoking history of the Council of Nicea. The only historical connection I have – even to the Christian Church broadly at that time, save a lifelong fascination with the desert fathers – is with St. Nonnus […]
Jeffrey Scott Pears: Still as a Mountain Lake
Jeffrey has just published his book, Embodying Light, and has permitted us to take some excerpts from it in future. Add Jeffrey’s voice to Sarah White’s yesterday and all the others who have come and are coming forward to demonstrate the shift in consciousness happening. (Look at that face!) Still as a mountain lake Still […]
God is Intelligent Love
No one “knows” what God is. I imagine only God does. The way I see the One, the Creator, Source, is as Intelligent Love. I use the words “Intelligence,” “Consciousness,” and “Awareness” as synonyms. I use the terms “Father,” “Mother,” and “One” as synonyms as well, in the following way: Imagine that I’m a passenger […]
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