Finally met a man who has spent half a lifetime studying under a kundalini master. Ponder than a moment. Half a lifetime? What hasn’t he been taught that he needs to stay the pupil in his 50s? Turns out, a lot, for he returns again and again, making the long flight from Hawaii to Illinois, […]
Few of us enjoy being alone with ourselves because nobody likes a liar. Cue cell phone lights and entertainment. Cue talking about ourselves to other people as though we’re relating. More like, if we can convince them we’re real, maybe we will feel it. We so fear being alone that we shun the actions of […]
Pretty much every time I log onto Facebook now I’m greeted by an ad from a certain “earthy” network that is cleverly disguised as a friend’s post. This is a network that promotes New Age crap the way TED Talks promote… well… anything at this point. Lately, the ads targeting me are of a lecture […]
They were a guru couple, a husband and wife team, who spoke the language of mystics in forceful whispers that said nothing. Their delivery was hypnotizing, which made it easier for the audience to believe they had heard something profound. But what they heard were hushed words uttered confidently and rapidly, which sounded familiar enough […]
Sometimes I get stuck in my head when writing these essays. I put them down and look at them later, often to find that I’ve tripped myself up with verbiage, that I’m not really writing what I think I’m saying. And then I have to rethink where the essay is going and if there are […]
She writes about how we’re a chorus of one. One voice through multiple mouths, and that voice is love. She knows how to hit the right notes in her books, this is for certain, judging by her large following. Like swarming insects they are attracted to buzzwords. She knows them all and has created a […]
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 […]
You’ve heard me say it. You’ve seen me write it. It’s the same thing Krishnamurti and a few others in the I know something you don’t circle have said in years past: I am not a teacher. Is that true? It sure feels like you’re learning, right? And I’m giving (or selling) knowledge and possibility, […]
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 […]
We can share but I can’t teach. This is a point I’ve written about, talked about, and still some expect to learn something from me beyond a description of my personal experiences, universal experiences, and, you know, understandings that listeners aren’t experiencing because they’re too busy asking me how to have them. The unfortunate problem […]