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 […]
I’ve talked quite a bit about Jiddu Krishnamurti in my work. It’s hard not to when I’m explaining how the moment of my kundalini awakening happened. The risks I run in talking about him too much are making a guru of him and giving a reason to ignore me as a wannabe Krishnamurti. And I […]
All right, here’s a little factoid from my life I’d all but forgotten until yesterday, when I was thinking about a quip I made to Jeff Kripal* recently. He was asking me why I’m so different from anyone else he’s ever heard talk about the “spiritual” stuff I talk about, because clearly I have a […]
Boy howdy, we sure do talk a lot about selflessness on this website. Heck, we talk about it in everyday conversation, right? Although usually in everyday conversation, what we mean by that word selfless is that someone did something unselfish. On the surface, there is a distinction between that definition of selfless and how we […]
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 […]
You-as-witness feel like you-as-prisoner when you are forced to take a backseat in experiencing. In an altered, expansive state of mind, the core element of the alteration is lack of control. Your voice is but an echo in the background and this creates fear if you don’t go with it. Fear that you are losing yourself […]
Most of us associate choice with freedom, and that’s how we’ve set up our world of separations. But in wholeness, choicelessness is freedom. This freedom flows through us, informing our actions as insights, and then becomes us, if we allow. The non-allowance is what our world looks like today. What, then, you may ask, is […]
Her yoga instructor was considered one of the best in the country. Indeed, he portrayed himself this way for as long as he could hold out, but his imbalances ate away at his ability to wear that mask, the mask of the sanctified. He grew into an abusive teacher who had sex with his students, […]
Realizing that some of you may be at the point where kundalini is flowing freely, perhaps we should take a peek behind that curtain early in these writings. This one’s for you…. There are experiences that we may find challenging but that doesn’t mean they are a challenge to us from another intelligence. It simply […]