After writing an earlier article, (1) I had a realization while sitting at the keyboard. I realized that a step on the overall, endless journey is to surrender any attachment to individuality. I said “attachment.” I still use my name and have possessions. But I have no attachment to anything impermanent. Anicca, anicca, anicca, my […]
What Do We Mean by “Experience”?
To say “to experience,” as I’m intending the word, does not (necessarily) mean “getting out in nature” or “eating new foods.” It can. But by the same token, we can be out in nature “experiencing” and still be relating to the world from the intellectual level only. I’m referring to there being three levels to […]
The World We’ll be Entering
It’s a subtle point to say that, in looking, many of us won’t see. It’s like a Zen choan. The meaning cannot be sought on the everyday level or on only one level. It’s power and interest comes from referring to two levels of reality at once. (1) Level 1 On the physical level, if […]
The Way of Awareness is Easy; or, Independence at a Deeper Level
Independence is a must! I get to see that I’ve been taking something Michael said to me far too superficially. This dawning awareness or realization is coming simultaneous with me claiming more of my personal authority, which I’ve been calling my “Adult” state, but which we usually call our Universal Self. (1) I merged with […]
Knowing What Knowing Is
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 […]
Big Steve Writing
This share will slightly disturb the chronology of the next two or three articles. In the growth movement, we’d call it a “red-hot share.” I acknowledge that growth work Kathleen has been doing in trauma therapy has likely played a role in my realization, below. I’m experiencing the most amazing gradual – and sometimes […]
Sharing and the Levels of Communication
In our quest to contribute to healing the wounds of society, we’re looking at ways of communicating that might work better than what we’re doing right now. Where it all goes, where it all leads is in the direction of the acceptance and agreement to live by the divine qualities. That’s the matter in short. […]
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 […]
Being the Pilot, not the Passenger
Over the Xmas holidays I watched Groundhog Day with a friend and was greatly impacted. It made a point about core issues or vasanas that I can’t help calling attention to. “Vasanas” is a Vedantic term for the reaction patterns we’ve formed based on earlier, similar, traumatic incidents. (1) The premise of the story, […]
How Do We Handle Depravity? – Part 2/3
(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) The Conspiracy of Conspiracies is Real The experiential level is really all we can navigate. The realizational level, “above” it, is coordinated with our design team, our enlightenment partners. (1) We don’t “navigate” it in the same way. By the Law of Freewill, we have to ask for realization; the […]
How Do We Handle Depravity? – Part 1/3
When the ten days of disclosure (or however long it is) occur, we’ll hear and see things we never dreamed existed or were possible in a species that calls itself “human.” How will we handle it? This three-part series looks at that question. Entering the Territory of the Heart When those who are denying the […]
Exiting the Cycle as a Single
Download Leaving the Cycle of Conflict here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Leaving-the-Cycle-of-Conflict-26.pdf Exiting the Cycle as a Single I’m a satisfied single … ok, a happy hermit … so I don’t have the opportunity to pursue the exit points from the cycle of conflict with anyone in the context of relationship. I have to make changes in myself, which […]
Leaving a Level of Knowledge: Out of Chaos Comes Change
Watching a potential housefire be extinguished by an unseen hand and “getting” divine protection is an example of realized knowledge It sure feels like we’re still in the wash cycle to me. (That’d mean we still have rinse and spin to go.) Or, if you’re a gambler, it feels like someone just threw all the […]
Talking on Two Levels: Two Solitudes?
Here we are worrying about family and friendship splits over political issues and we face another obstacle in communication: People communicating on two different levels and just not getting their ideas across. For the first time in my life I became aware, mid-conversation, that I was having one of these discussions with another person. The […]
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