Toward a World that Works for Everyone
For the first time in memory, I got angry this evening and, instead of hurling allegations at another, who after all “made me mad,” instead of festering with it, instead of revenging myself on the other person, I opened to the experience of it. It turned out to be a feeling just like any other. […]
Probably because of the rising vibrations but perhaps also because of the cumulative impact of growth work, I can now watch myself make decisions. I still find a strong streak of self-righteousness involved in my decision-making that may impact others. I was asked to pick up a jar of coconut oil. I personally don’t use […]
I’ve put together a booklet of essays on the self-serving bias. If you haven’t familiarized yourself with the concept and are planning to run a large corporation after the Reval, this is one you may want to have a look at. Download a copy of On the Self-Serving Bias here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/On-the-Self-Serving-Bias-2.pdf Introduction It seems to […]
We certainly should have mastered the wait by now. What we may have trouble with is the start after, or even during, the wait. It may be hard to get going again. Lethargy may have set in. The growth movement had quite a few tools to get us going, nurture our self-responsibility, etc. What I’d […]
What is absolutely in balance? The Father. Absolute stillness and silence. When the Father stirs, we call her the Mother (mater, matter). Movement begins with her. She says: Divine Mother: I am thought of in many forms — as Mary, as Shakti, as Marḗ, which is very close because it is the word for ocean […]
I think we may have misunderstood the notion of selflessness. And our misunderstanding has us shy away from the concept. Yes, forget about the egoic personality that we call a “self.” But, no, don’t forget about the Universal Self, Higher Self or just plain Self that exists at a higher level. We go through lifetimes […]
I use my awareness to uncover the truth. Uncovering the truth in turn elevates my awareness. I’ve worked my way through ever subtler layers of egoic personality. My awareness now falls on individual words I’m using, which, I’m finding, are subtly self-serving. I go through life living events, but then constructing a self-serving story or […]
I’m gripped with a desire to get present with money in preparation for the Reval. And so I’ve taken all my money out of the bank, in $5 notes, and am doling it out to myself for computer supplies, household expenses, etc.; then keeping records. It isn’t that I need to do any of this. […]
There are degrees of freedom. At one end of the spectrum, there’s physical freedom, where all my limbs and organs are working and I can live without worrying very much about them. That’s a basic-level freedom. All the way at the other end of the spectrum, there’s ultimate freedom. We climb Jacob’s Ladder of consciousness […]
Download here: On the Divine Qualities at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/On-the-Divine-Qualities-2.pdf. If we anchor our identity to how we look, the first signs of cellulite, saggy muscles, or white hairs can be a crisis. If at 75 one is still anchoring to one’s looks, one can cut a pretty pathetic figure. In between the two, our lives pass. […]
I began my career as a historian examining how late-Victorian authors in English Canada represented the process of growth. (1) They believed in something contemporary historians came to call “creative repression”: We grow by denying ourselves. The body was seen as a fixed energy system. If we wasted our energy physically, we’d pay for it […]
If your personality was blown off you at an early age in violent circumstances, so that you thought of yourself as the Humpty Dumpty Man, what would be your greatest impulse? To bring all the pieces back together again. To consolidate. To integrate. To rebuild, reconstruct, reassemble. Isn’t that so? What an interesting circumstance for […]
Happy Canada Day, Canada! Chin up! Love will win. The days of abuse and corruption are numbered. For me to take steps to realize the magnitude of our planetary project, I first have to resolve all situations for me that remain unresolved. I need to be complete. Otherwise I don’t have a solid foundation from […]
Your email saying when I talk about myself, it’s either the same for you or backlights how you are is encouraging to me. Thank you for that. Sometimes, it really is like going out on the skinny branches. Exhilarating but risky. So I do need encouragement. In the growth movement, what I’m saying to you […]
One could see the process of uncovering or revealing the Self as akin to moulting. The crab doesn’t find itself. It moults a confining shell. If we go off in search of the Self, we’re busying the very one we want to “find.” “I’m searching for the Self.” “Go away. I’m busy.” “What are you […]
