Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Good morning, everyone. It is Dec 29 2021 and welcome to Planet Earth. My morning started early as most of my awakenings do. My super loving cat jumped up on the bed as she always does. Time to curl up close and purr with no regard to whether I was awake or not. As long […]
(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 […]
Any metaphor a writer uses for the One runs the risk of the reader reducing the One to the object of the comparison. If I say the One is lawless, you may immediately see a Western movie black-hat gunslinger. How useful is that to the “knower” of the unknowable? It might trigger a realization if […]
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 […]
There is a way of “looking past” all the stories a person might be telling themselves, past their “egoic structure,” and past all their pain and suffering and contracted self-concept. To what then? What is there? This is why music and art can be so powerful… They can embody what is there without resorting to […]
Recently I wrote: “In spiritual terms, given that I’m a spirit in a human body, relating to others of the same kind, and want to understand myself and others – and given that others may want to as well – how do I describe the ways we think, feel, and act; that is, our culture?” […]
For me this seems like a time of strangeness, a time of weirdness. On the one hand, I feel determined in certain areas; on the other hand, I feel weak and vacillating in others. There was a cartoon in one of the leading magazines decades ago called “Top Dog/Underdog.” Inside was the outline of a […]
‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house…. Well, we’re certainly used to waiting! I’m in a philosophical mood today. I feel guided to look at duality, to show that it isn’t inherently bad or wrong. The very first act in the drama of our lives was one of imaginary separation, individuation. No, […]
Guest Writer THE POWER OF LOVE AND TRUTH Bethel Barr (www.crystalcorridorlight.com) This past summer I received a short message from the Mother Goddess, Archangel Gaia which made a huge impact on me and I wish to share it with you. She said to me: “Accepting Truth requires Purity of Heart and then Freedom flows”. At […]
What to do during lockdown, quarantine, social isolation, etc.? I’d highly recommend meditation. But I have no depth of background in meditation so I can’t speak to it. I do plan to meditate more myself, given the isolating conditions. But what about during the time when we’re not meditating? How to “make best use of […]
(email) One of the greatest misconceptions in the healing of the self or the transformation of the whole is imagining something insidious needs to stop in order for something greater to begin. When you are against something, you are empowering it with the very energy you require in order to set greater justices into motion. […]
When I think of Ascension as a journey up a mountain, I weep. Because for me, that’s how it’s seemed. I could have said pulling myself out of a swamp. Or crossing a desert. These are just images, but I feel so tired looking at the journey from this vantage point. It’s been a long […]
Clearly my personality survives intact in some way, shape or form. I don’t know what the road ahead holds. I can only report. What I report now arises from my practice, on the path of awareness, of maintaining awareness of myself. I detected a pattern. I was people-pleasing. I was complimenting someone on a coat […]
Why is awareness so important? Why not love? Why not good works? Well, of course those are also very important. But awareness – which is also called discernment and discrimination in some religions – is of ultimate importance. Why? By now I should be able to ask “What is the purpose of life?” and a […]
