A friend chided me for not writing a New Year’s retrospective. But that isn’t the way my mind works. I have little interest in the past except as a reminder of what does and does not work or a means of liberating energy from a stuck place. The past as the past doesn’t hold a […]
Is Masculinity Obsolete?
In conversation last night with a friend, the suggestion was made to me that my early childhood in this lifetime may have been designed to raise issues in me that really belonged to another lifetime, two millennia ago as a warrior. I was fascinated to see the correspondences. The same situation the warrior faced I […]
The Anatomy of a Vasana
“When you are acknowledging and working with your own core, you are working with the collective.” (Archangel Michael in a personal reading, May 9, 2014.) Permit me to use this opportunity to discuss a few things about vasanas. Many pieces of the puzzle are falling into place for me and so, from my point of […]
The Subsidence of the Vasanas
What is it about our vasanas (persistent reaction patterns born of ancient trauma) that organize our life away from spiritual pursuits and have the goal of enlightenment elude us lifetime after lifetime? Sri Ramana says: “All the age long vasanas (impressions) carry the mind outwards and turn it to external objects. All such thoughts have […]