We push and we push, in various ways, through our science and our not-so-science. We push to the outer limits of the universe, discovering what’s possible, inventing around it and through it, in search of… in search of…. In search of what? In search of someone or something to communicate with. Aliens. Life. Intelligence. But […]
We want to be known. This is why being a televised person in a plugged-in culture is so appealing. It’s why school shootings happen. It’s why we leave suicide notes. It’s why social media “likes” are replacing affection and praise. We want to be known by God, not understand ourselves as Oneself behind the dualistic […]
On the one hand, Truth is uncompromising. On the other hand, you have the free will choice to completely ignore it. What’s this about? Truth is living. Truth is the action of one who is God-alive. So there is no compromise in how such a one behaves and what such a one does in the […]
One must learn listening. One must exist in a state of thanking, because everything another gives is gifting. One must be trusting, totally trusting in another and one must be trusting in oneself to find truth. Discovering through open, honest interconnecting within truth makes for greatness. One must be opening, not closed off, not stuck […]
When the Christians were exhausted from war, God saw fit to send the Indians smallpox. – said an unnamed friar regarding Cortes’ invasion of the Valley of Mexico, as quoted in Douglas Preston’s book, The Lost City of the Monkey God. The trappings of saying that the same kernel of Spirit is contained in […]
Duality. What is duality? What is nonduality? We hear these terms all the time in spiritual talk. What do they really mean? Not the fluffy, fancy coats we put on them, but the actual shoulders—whose are they? Two shoulders. One body. Duality and nonduality. We get the metaphor, right? But something deeper lurks there, arguably […]
Have you ever noticed how we look to what other cultures do to stay healthy for a quick fix instead of changing our unhealthy habits? We search and search for that one miracle cure, miracle food, or miracle exercise that will erase the damage we’ve done and allow us to continue in a damaging way. […]
What makes Mystery such a mystery? Have you ever wondered that? And why do mysteries feel so pedestrian, boring, really, compared to Mystery with a capital M? Is it because mysteries are unalive questions, answers waiting to happen? Are riddles temporary highs that, once solved, drop us back into our normal, unengaging lives? A mystery […]
Existence is singular consciousness being. We could replace the word being with imagining. Singular consciousness imagining. Imagining multitudes. Multiverses of multitudes. It’s like a toy box of mind, except the beings in those multiverses are imagining each other at once. The toys and the toy box are intrinsically and inseparably relating. The pseudoscience of how […]
In the end, there can be only one. — famous quote from the movie, Highlander Are we set up to fail on the hero’s journey no matter what choices we make? If so, is the point to teach us discomfort and humility on our way to individuation? Who lays out this path for us? We […]