Toward a World that Works for Everyone
There was a movie some years ago – The War of the Roses with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. The two of them did not stop fighting until they lay head to head, dying … while their fingers kept fighting, reaching out and being rejected, to the end! Violence has never worked. It […]
Daydreaming I had a daydream the other day that I had enough short-term memory to actually lecture on what we discuss here, in front of a crowd. (I don’t at this moment. Haven’t had since at least 2012.) At one point I asked everyone in the audience to stand up. Now I […]
(I’ve made some changes to this article since taping it.) The arguments in the article below this one demonstrate, in my view, what I consider to be the blind alley we’ve gotten ourselves into as a global society. The author is a Trump opponent. It doesn’t matter what we oppose or what we […]
I’m watching my mind at work…. (1) “I can add another experience,” it says, ” to those which I know as consciousness states. To the list of divine qualities – love, bliss, ecstasy, mastery, abundance, and peace – that I’ve felt and that are now known to me and able to be […]
That’s me, above, and Grok’s version, below. AI has spoken. What do you see? I know two types of people: (A) Donald Trump for whom “promises made” are “promises kept,” and (B) a friend for whom all arrangements are flexible and promises have little weight. In any kind of organization, in my […]
Why do I think you might not be interested in more experiences like Krishnamurti’s? (1) Krishnamurti’s was one type of entry-level spiritual experience found in all spiritual traditions. Why not hear other words about it since we’re headed that way ourselves (in the Ring of Fire). (2) Since writing the last column, I realized […]
I apologize for the formatting error this morning. Would you allow me a moment of introspection? Paul Reps in 1957 might have called it “writing down the bones.” (1) I was about to insert myself in a conversation involving AG Pam Bondi, who castigated a critic for having misjudged Biden’s mental condition for so long. […]
A friend is developing channeling and just produced the most interesting observations on awareness. This is an example of something you’d expect to read in a 1970s Growth Movement magazine covering topics equivalent to what we look at here; in this case, a developed appraisal of the process and impact of awareness. […]
I continue in my experience of peace. When my mind is deeply quiet, as it is this morning, a different “me” is present. The chief thing I notice is that I feel … what’s the word? Substantial. And I haven’t felt quite this way before. Not as solid. Remember, perhaps, that this is […]
I noticed this morning, for the first time in memory, that I was feeling … gentle. Me? The last angry man, the troll under the bridge? Gentle? Given my male upbringing, “gentle” is not something I’ve had much experience or interest in. I’m supposed to be felling trees, crossing rivers, and protecting women. I’m […]
When Jesus said the proverb, “There is nothing hid that shall not be known,” (1) what exactly did he mean? His truths have so many levels, and he himself views things from such a high perspective, that I cannot, with my Model T version of a brain, possibly know all of them. However, one […]
Werner Erhard said that upsets derive from three circumstances: frustrated expectations, thwarted intentions, and undelivered communications. (1) What they all have in common is we didn’t get what we wanted or we got what we didn’t want – and we’re mad. It’s infantile behavior. Nothing higher-dimensional about it, except for Moses. Instead […]
As a student of awareness, I began looking at anger this morning and decided that it was a response to not getting what we want. So how do I go about short-circuiting that? The ultimate answer is: Just stop. But let’s look at the interim answer, anger for beginners. The assertiveness people would say one […]
Someone just gave someone else credit for something I did. It triggered my remembrance of what Iris Hone, who was the accountant for the Vancouver est Network in the early 1980s, said, which has stayed with me ever since as a kind of puzzle: You can have anything you want, she said, provided […]
As an aside, I want to acknowledge how many others are suffering from some malady right now. I hear it from so many people. We seem to be pushing through immense karma or adjusting to the higher vibrations or something. Unfortunately I have no insight into energetic processes. As an awareness writer, I can […]
