If you’ve ever heard a lecture on meditation you may have heard the dark side of the mind brought up. This is the storage vault of your doubts and fears.
In meditation we’re meant to just observe them and not really play in to them.
Yet, why when doubts come up, do we never ever just observe them?
Why don’t we remember that lecture on meditation that forewarned us and prepared us for this very moment?…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever heard a lecture on meditation you may have heard the dark side of the mind brought up. This is the storage vault of your doubts and fears.
In meditation we’re meant to just observe them and not really play in to them.
Yet, why when doubts come up, do we never ever just observe them?
Why don’t we remember that lecture on meditation that forewarned us and prepared us for this very moment?…
Read MoreHave you ever wondered why movie stars and royalty are so popular?
The reason is because we identify them with the plots they are portrayed in. We love plots, storylines, drama, intrigue, love, adventure, high stakes, conflict, resolution…
Read MoreDo you ever feel that you are the only one that doubts yourself? That everyone else knows what they are doing and you are the odd man out?
If no one else experienced doubt then why would doubt show up again and again in the different religions and mythologies of the world?
Jesus had his moment of doubt on the cross. Doubt was the last thought the Buddha conquered before attaining enlightenment…
Read MoreNirvana, or Nibbana, are two words from the lexicons of ancient India that refer to the state of experience discovered by the Buddha. In this state a human being experiences the cessation of suffering. The words literally mean to extinguish, or "no burning."
To understand a bit more about the nature of Nirvana we have to first understand the nature of perception...
Read MoreThe Punk movement began in the mid-1970's, when Saturn and Uranus were in a particularly tense angular alignment known as a "square" (I was born under this very alignment). Saturn's archetype symbolizes authority and conservative values, as well as traditions and austerity. Uranus is in many ways the opposite of Saturn. It is the archetype of rebellion, disruption, revolution and freedom. Since the two planets, and thus their archetypes, were combined in a tense square angle in the mid-1970's we saw them struggling against one another, yet embodying one another...
Read MoreInteresting research by professor Stephen Porges highlights a new state that is being added to the fight or flight trauma response. Fight or flight is now becoming known as fight, flight, or freeze...
Read MoreEvery single human life, no matter what the content, from the most trauma-filled to the most boring, is merely a story. Not only is every human life a story, but it is a story telling itself to itself; there is no fixed underlying main character in the story. This is the aspect of reality that allows every human life equal access to freedom. By freedom I do not mean a mundane freedom involving physical, political, and/or economic freedom. No. That is more story. I mean freedom from the past, freedom from trauma, regret, remorse, depression, anger, negativity, in short: freedom from suffering...
Read MoreHave you ever had a behavior that is causing you and those around you to suffer, yet is proving resistant to change? Since the advent of Freud and the birth of psychology at the start of the twentieth century, therapy has become the go to method for addressing these kinds of stubborn and destructive behavior patterns. I will here invent a hypothetical scenario to illustrate a point...
Read MoreDid I say nondual astrology or nonduel astrology? Well, nondual astrology is the art of looking at distant bodies in space to understand our innermost natures. Why would we look at something so distant in order to understand something as intimate to us as our own life? Because inner and outer are divisions that ultimately don't exist. When you gaze into the deep quiet of the inky black sky at night you are looking into the deep well of your own innermost being...
Read MoreOf the spiritual offerings available today, the movement of nonduality is becoming more and more popular. Nonduality says that all of the divisions we perceive, such as the division between you and me, between this object and that object, between now and then, are ultimately illusions. What does this have to say about a practice in which we look to very distant bodies in space to inform us about our lives here on Earth?...
Read More
