Ibn Arabi: “To know God is not an easy matter, until one becomes a knower of one’s self.” (1) Al-Ghazzali: “He who knows himself knows God.” (2) The illusory, apparently-individuated entity known as the “Self” is like a Babushka doll. Whatever its original form might have been, that’s the largest of the dolls. And we […]
Other Voices on Where the Self “Lives”
Three days till 11/11. When, at Xenia Retreat Center in Sept. 2018, I ventured in meditation into the very bottom of my heart, the depths of my heart, called the Seat of the Soul, I there found the Light of the Self. (1) But, after the experience, I was filled with doubts. The soul doesn’t […]
Whitney: Coming Home to Ourselves
Steve: Beautifully put, Whitney, and conforms to/expresses my experience as well. While the spiritual journey is rarely a linear one with clearly defined footpaths, signposts, and support, it certainly has a thread that runs through it. This thread is ourselves! However our spiritual journeys move us, wherever they make take us, the one constant is […]
The Phase of Purification Called Growth
A newly-awakening person might ask if what we’re promoting here is a new religion. I don’t think so. What we’re doing, more, is chronicling two aspects of the Purification phase of the Ascension we’re involved in. It’s true that our Ascension is what the prophets meant when they used words like “Salvation” and “Redemption.” There […]
Ego Still Around
The toned-down Self I saw was luminous rather than brilliant While I’m aware of the actor/participant or “witness” in the drama of my life, and while I’ve even seen a moderated or toned-down version of it, (1) I personally wouldn’t say that I’ve realized it. I’ve called realization seeing from a higher level, (2) which […]
Whitney: Crossing the Threshold, Part 3
Crossing the Threshold, Part 3 Whitney, by email, May 9, 2023 In the last article, we talked about visiting the void-like state that’s designed to prepare each of us for our shift into the new world. While there are certainly outer indicators that let us know we’re moving into a higher state of consciousness, ultimately […]
Jeffrey Scott Pears: Still as a Mountain Lake
Jeffrey has just published his book, Embodying Light, and has permitted us to take some excerpts from it in future. Add Jeffrey’s voice to Sarah White’s yesterday and all the others who have come and are coming forward to demonstrate the shift in consciousness happening. (Look at that face!) Still as a mountain lake Still […]
Who’s Behind the Curtain?
I’d like to take a very simple example of dawning awareness and use it to illustrate the levels of knowledge (intellectual – experiential – realizational). I had the awareness dawn earlier today that I can’t change a person’s behavior; the most I can do is model the alternative. No big deal unto itself, but it’s […]
Psst! Over Here….
Psst! Over here. Yah, you. Come over here. Listen. I’ve just been waiting for someone like you to come along. I wanna tell you a secret. Here it is. Ready? The Self lies in the seat of the soul. Yah, yah, yah, that’s what I said. The Self lies in the bottom of the heart, […]
That is My Destination
All we are at one level of reality, as I’ve experienced, is a point of awareness in a sea of love. (1) Michael referred to that state when he described us re-emerging from the heart of One: “When you go home, … you can reunite in the heart of One. … [After a rest] you […]
Trading in the Old Paradigm of Right/Wrong – Part 1/3
The Mother said something at the beginning of the year that only becomes more relevant with the passage of time: “This sense that one is right, and one is wrong, that one is correct, and one is incorrect… I am bringing you, I am bringing this planet into the place of unity consciousness, into the […]
The Study of the Heart – Part 2/2
(Concluded from part 1, yesterday.) So I was operating outside the intellectual level – in the experiential. Sri Aurobindo addresses the situation: “Man, because he is a mental being, is prone to give the highest importance to the thinking mind and its reason and will and to its way of approach…. The heart with its […]
The Study of the Heart – Part 1/2
In my view, we live at three levels: intellectual, experiential, and realizational. As long as we remain, socially, at the intellectual level, we concern ourselves with right/wrong, good/bad, pleasurable/painful and other dualities. We don’t give much importance to feelings. Right/wrong and the rest at best give us the rewards of pride, self-satisfaction, conceit, arrogance, status […]
Jesus: I Speak Not as the Man But as the Light
I’m quietly proofreading Towards a Cross Cultural Spirituality and, in the course of it, came across this pivotal description by Jesus of his relationship to the Light that is the Christ. In his various “I am” statements in the gospels, he acknowledges here that he is speaking as the Light rather than as Jesus the […]
If Wisdom Prevails
Variations on the phrase “feeling good” receive different receptions. A “feel good” movie is one that sets out to elevate our feelings, but there’s the added implication that it has no other redeeming feature. The words “superficial” and “feel good” often go together. “Feeling good” is often viewed as a way of closing down further […]
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