The limited cannot understand the limitless; it can only incorporate some of its attributes into limitation. The latest version, and most clever, is to suppose that there is no limitlessness, there is only that which is just beyond the boundaries of our limitation, and that reaching to it, discovering it, exploring it, owning it, and […]
Common is the person who seeks eternal life by denying death. That is what the seeker-as-self is for. One roams the earth for a magical elixir of eternal life. Not finding it, such a one turns to technology, to merge with machines and become a spirit in one. One calls the ability to trade organic […]
One of the key reasons Truth gets lumped in with the religious is because of the similar ways in which they are articulated. Both claim to be knowledge, but Truth is living. Truth is expressing and becoming knowledge, as it is processed through time. Religious stuff is previously expressed Truth broken into truths or truisms, […]
Impersonal Love. It sounds so… impersonal. But is it? Is it really that chilly, or just an unfortunate word association? Perhaps the reason personal love gives us the warm fuzzies, while impersonal Love sounds like two robots doing it, is because the personal self is in constant need of justifying its existence, which necessitates making […]
Unconscious dreams are fully formed and you’re fated to play them out unless you wake up into them. In an average dream you are unconscious, rolling through the motions, and the dream is about you. The characters are you; the setting is straight out of you. Unconscious dreaming is self-absorption—but healthy self-absorption that provides lessons […]
Are musical notes fractals? They appear to be a finite auditory set that repeat infinitely in pitch; however, physicists are still debating whether notes can be bent and chopped infinitely, or if there is a limit to the workings of sound waves. In concentrating on this problem, we miss a greater point that transcends the […]
That which we yearn for is that which we feel we’re missing. We Westernized folks feel we’re missing interconnection, never mind oneness. We’re growing out of it, many of us, but it’s a slow evolution, for we gave ourselves a god who told us that we’re special, that we have dominion over the earth, long, […]
Uttering Truth is the death of Truth because Truth is the living action of Being, which dies the moment it is translated from timelessness into time through utterance. The acts of uttering and sharing create an interval of time, which is the death of Being and the beginning of doing. It is a necessary death, […]
One trap that New Age, fundamentalist Christian, and other religious speakers often fall into is using scientific evidence in physics to back up their truth claims. Subsequent discoveries in science often render their evidence moot, and this is used to debunk the spiritual stuff being communicated. It’s a shame because the problem isn’t always that […]
We’ve talked about 1st-person/2nd-person/3rd-person experiencing of Spirit in general, cross-cultural, and, in the cases of 2nd and 3rd-person, external terms. These three models don’t stop existing in one who is fully conscious, they simply integrate within-and-as the person. Of course ego reasserts itself at every turn and so there are unhealthy versions of this as […]