He defended a recent article about a team of scientists who want to drill down into Earth’s mantle for the first time because they believe they have the means to do it. For him that is reason enough to try. It is enough because knowledge is all-important; furthering our understanding of how the world works […]
Okay, class, gather ‘round, gather ‘round. I’m about to teach you something. You paid for spiritual lessons, right? This is an online course. Today, we’re going to learn about spiritual learning. What is learning where spirituality is concerned? Let’s define spiritual learning as revealing more and more of the whole of a topic in increments […]
I recently spoke to a group of professors and PhD. candidates in fields ranging from psychology to anthropology, at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. I told them about my “awakening” experience, which you may have read in my book, Urgency., or heard in the audio version on this site. During the retell, I described how being […]
Life is whole, not just one part. If you give importance to the whole then sex becomes more or less unimportant. The monks and all those who have denied sex have turned their energy to god but the thing is boiling in them, nature cannot be suppressed. But when you give that thing all-importance, then […]
…. [T]he scientific credo of our time has developed a superstitious phobia about fantasy, but the real is what works. —Carl Jung If you read the Lessons With Nature essay, Clouds: The Perfect Metaphor Revised, you may recall this line: “The rarity of shared experience makes it feel more magical, more real when it happens.” […]
She was an artist who left the Big Island because the art scene here was too shallow for her liking. Unless she was going to paint turtles and trees and red, oozing lava flows, her art would not sell well here. Her art was more of an unconscious expression, more personal than that. She moved […]
She read some books that became her armor and now fancies herself a “spiritual warrior.” She had spent her life struggling with herself. This, she has reconfigured into a spiritual struggle, with psychic demons outside of her who are responsible for any negative impulses she carries internally. Changing the verbiage and the onus of the […]
She’s an artist, an elder behaving like a teen, cozying up to those with cash, or a free place to stay, and begging her parents when all other manipulations fail. She says she is above work; life is about play, creativity, and self-expression. She says she is free-spirited, but her free spirit costs everyone else […]
When it comes to the hidden psychological components of spirit stuff, sometimes ya gotta listen to yourself, especially when asking why. The state of questioning is different than asking a question. The state of questioning is the openness we become when we ask something deep with no answer in mind, no intention to project, whatsoever. […]
My friend hadn’t a long attention span and listening was a chore. I told her about a speaking engagement where I had shared some of my experiences. She asked me what experiences and I explained in a few lines about my I Am experience of seeing and being the universe manifesting within nothingness. She wanted […]