Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Whomever it was who took the Internet down recently proved they could do it. It wasn’t a solar flare. Here’s the area that a solar flare would have hit: Credit: https://downdetector.com/ (1) Not the U.S., etc. I like to think it was white hats but we await some official word. Until it comes, I favor […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
(Concluded from Part 3,) Our own channeled sources agree with our terrestrial sages. Matthew Ward tells us: “Your heart [is] the seat of the soul.” (1) Exactly so. Tazjima described it in 2013: “There is a secret space within your etheric body sometimes called the secret garden, the Holy of Holies, the secret chamber of […]
Download here: On the Divine Qualities at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/On-the-Divine-Qualities-2.pdf. I’ve made this point several ways. I keep looking for other metaphors. Up till now I’ve discussed where I believe we need to be as the heart, the center, the balance point, etc. Let me now compare it to the eye of the storm. A hurricane […]
I’ve just had the clearest example of someone on the other side sending me an urgent bulletin. Both the bulletin and the sending are interesting. I was wrestling with what caused inner turmoil and turned my attention to the “personality.” And then came a moment of clear, heightened seeing when I said to myself: I […]
Rumors are flying about exposures and arrests. As I watch them, I remember Michael’s advice: “Stand back and observe.” I’m glad I choose the middle, emotionally and spiritually speaking. Everyone makes choices in self-presentation and I feel quite comfortable, nestled here in the center, as much as I can manage it. Spiritually speaking, the middle […]
(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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I was asked by a reader if the soul can be captured, harmed, or brought to ruin. I answered him and was left wondering where his concern might have come from. Then quite by accident I came across a posted commentary that said that the dark hats were taking hostages, capturing their soul essence and […]
