Toward a World that Works for Everyone
There’s so much we … OK, OK, I … don’t understand. For instance, take awareness. Awareness transforms. It does so, first of all, in ways I don’t understand or even suspect. Put those aside for the moment with a simple acknowledgment. Second of all, it transforms by allowing the unpleasant sensation or emotion to […]
I often hear folks debating free will vs determinism, as if, if the one exists, the other cannot. Do we have free will? Or are the events of our lives pre-determined by “karma”? Both. Any seeming contradiction disappears when we make a distinction between action and reaction. Let me back up a moment, to explain. […]
Dr. Gabor Maté explores in this short video the connection between emotions, the mind and the body. He helps us see how changing our relationship with our self can restore our health, how disease can be viewed as a process, a way to know the self on a whole new level.
I was just chatting with a friend when a sentence came up for me, to be said: “It all works out in the final reel.” I have to give you the background to it to understand its significance because, today, 37 years later, I just got it. On Friday, March 13, 1987, while I was […]
Time out for something completely different. And then we’ll return to our discussion of leadership. I regard society – and myself – as being in the cosmic wash cycle right now. Every bit of dirt seems to be pushing up to be released. It’s their graduation too, I hear my mind say. We moulded […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This article was delayed – and is therefore out of chronological order – by the posting of the article on my recent download and rollercoaster ride. The Self is pure and innocent. I’ve experienced its purity and innocence (1) so, in the sense that the Federation of Light uses the word, I know that to […]
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 […]
An awareness writer writes about what’s right here, right now. One who is not an awareness writer might gloss over it, censor themselves, and so on. In many occupations – such as the military, surgical, aeronautical – it won’t be appropriate to be dwelling on how we feel about something, what we notice about […]
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 […]
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 […]
