Toward a World that Works for Everyone
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 […]
The torus, illustrated here, came up in discussion recently at Kathleen’s lecture on gender equality. It has special significance for me following the vision I had on Feb. 13, 1987. May I share that? That vision followed an individual soul, appearing as a brilliant golden star, which emerged from a large Golden Sun. It went […]
I can now see counterproductive behavior patterns as they arise. Before I committed to the divine qualities, they’d arise largely invisibly. That was because I approved of them. Now they work against my new commitment and so are in conflict with me. When they arise now and seek my attention, I don’t agree to give […]
If it’s all about how we feel, as I believe it is for us humans, then what am I doing, in a take-charge manner, to see that I feel my best (as defined by me)? No, I don’t mean anything external. I’d like to keep our attention on the internal. It doesn’t cost anything and […]
I’d like to repeat a conversation in which the Divine Mother confirms for me a really basic aspect of Reality. I do so to underline the fact that we today have unprecedented access to her through numerous mediums. This has never happened in the history of the world. That alone should be a proof of […]
My chemistry teacher taught me never to say never. Always leave room for doubt, error, new perspectives, additional information. Life is open-ended. My ongoing namaste to him has been to use the word “etc.” a great deal, to convey this open-endedness. It acknowledges just what he said – that I could be wrong, more knowledge […]
(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 […]
Each time I see the Sun, I remember the Self. And that brings bliss. My cares are forgotten. At these moments I’m not desireless. If I was, I wouldn’t have any cares. I meditate and let go of all desires. As I do, I find a hidden agenda. I’m trying to manage my impression with […]
There exists a spectrum to how spiritual evolution is accomplished. At one end is what can be purely called “spirituality”; at the other, what can be purely called “growth.” What’s the difference between the two as terrestrials practiced them? Well, of course, everyone will have their own opinion and that’s as it should be. In […]
Because I regard all of life as a learning experience – the primary lesson to be learned being who we are -I create hypotheses for me to test out, which then become theorems. Often I resolve to test a thought out because it persistently repeats itself in my consciousness. Approaching life in this manner keeps […]
I confess I’m enjoying this series. Nothing feeds me more than the study of enlightenment. Let me post one more, from Plotinus. Plotinus had numerous transcendental experiences in his lifetime. I’ve posted this passage before. It also may emanate from one who ascended. Is this not a hint of his attainment: “Remaining here, you have […]
That may sound like just a glib statement, but in fact it’s 100% true – in my estimation. Look at life this way. The purpose of life is to know who we are, our essence, our true selves, our one identity. We know the value of that to God: When one of us realizes who […]
