Senators, Congress, Republicans, or Democrats… who are they representing? Their districts? Their States? Their political affiliation? Most government officials are not middle class and free of corruption like most of us taxpayers. I thought in order to be taxed, we needed to be represented in our government. We haven’t been for a long time. Most […]
Self-Mastery, Personal Power, and Personal Responsibility
It’s amazing how differently things look after a spiritual experience. Or how things that were mysterious before are not mysterious after. Etc. A sense that I had before, but which was undeveloped, is growing rapidly. I’m coming to see, much deeper than I did before, that there’s something I’m in complete control of, something I […]
Surveying the Scene
What starts out as a new paradigm becomes, for most people, the new normal fairly soon. Paradigms open some new horizons but they also close others. That’s how they work: by validating some behavior but warning against others. And it’s this development that can turn a paradigm from inspirational to limiting. It ceases being a […]
Paradigmatic Breakthrough – Part 2/4
(Continued from Part 1.) Stumbling into a Whole New World I can draw on my own experience of what a breakthrough looks like. I stumbled onto a paradigm of communication as an unintended consequence of sourcing a vasana. The vasana itself is unimportant. I regularly go through a stack attack at the end of each […]