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 […]
Do All the Divine Qualities Reside in the Heart?
As a result of writing a previous article, I saw that I was creating my joy in a moment of realization. I wondered if I couldn’t create happiness as well. So I called up happiness from my heart on the inbreath and sent it out to the world on my outbreath. And, yes, I could […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brilliant Songwriting for the Mother’s New Time
In “Karma,” Swift sings, “Ask me what I learned from all those years / Ask me what I earned from all those tears.” Imprisoned for life, Joe Garcia finds solace and meaning in Taylor Swift’s music. Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison By Joe Garcia, The New Yorker, September 2, 2023 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/listening-to-taylor-swift-in-prison The first time […]
Maintaining the Connection: Therein Lies the Work
The best representation of my Higher Self as he appeared to me (1) The degree of influence of the Higher (Seventh-Dimensional) Self, the Oversoul, on us seems to determine the degree to which we can be stalwart, valiant, determined. The extent of courage of the Higher Self is such that we can “import it” or […]
I Reap the Harvest
I’m more and more realizing the idiocy of claiming to be an “expert.” I’m left musing after reading Marilyn’s thought-provoking history of the Council of Nicea. The only historical connection I have – even to the Christian Church broadly at that time, save a lifelong fascination with the desert fathers – is with St. Nonnus […]
102-Year-Old Doctor: No. 1 Thing to be Healthy & Happy
I’m a 102-year-old doctor. Here’s the No. 1 thing the healthiest and happiest people I know never do By Gladys McGarey, May 8th, CNBC Make It https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/08/i-am-a-102-year-old-doctor-heres-the-no-1-thing-the-happiest-and-healthiest-people-i-know-never-do.html I turned 102 years old this year, and my decades of experience in holistic medicine has taught me a lot about how to live a long, happy and […]
Love, Awareness, and Emergence
I’ve done a major revision and expansion of Vasanas: Preparing for Ascension by Clearing Old Issues. It’s about doubled in size. Practicing the upset clearing process is one way to rid yourself of your burden of resentment and similar negative feelings. (Invoking the universal laws is another.) Download it here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Vasanas-Preparing-for-Ascension-R2.pdf This book, and all […]
What Keeps Me Moving Forward in Crazy Times
I was asked what keeps me going, moving forward, especially in crazy times. There are so many answers to that question. I’d like to select from among them and mention something I discussed once before: The notion of pushing my edge. It was a 1970s growth movement notion that deserves to be remembered. What kept […]
Why Transformative Awareness? (Download)
Download On Transformative Awareness here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Transformative-Awareness-9.pdf I was in the course of updating, expanding, and polishing Transformative Awareness when I came across a reference to “going above the line.” I made a footnote in the text and the footnote rapidly became an article. Let me explain the term and, in the course of doing so, […]
Introduction to Transformative Awareness (Download)
I’ve completed On Transformative Awareness, which is attached. This is a book on the awareness path, including how awareness works to dissolve knots in consciousness (the truth will set you free), what the joys of awareness are, and how awareness fits with the Divine Plan. Download On Transformative Awareness here: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Transformative-Awareness-9.pdf Jesus: You have to […]
From Humpty to Heaven. With Love
This experience happened perhaps a week ago but the write-up was nudged off the publication schedule by 9/11 coverage. Again I continue ethnographically while I regain my health and momentum. I’m going through an experience at the moment that I can only compare to moulting. Or perhaps cracks opening in my body and my body […]
The Eye of the Storm
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 […]