Buddha was a wealthy royal. Jesus was self-aware enough to know he was experiencing being human. So, in their early lives they didn’t know suffering the way common people did. That was part of the gig—finding out. But you can’t find out if you’ve always got a backup plan in your hip pocket, like returning […]
He talks about back in the day. Thousands of years ago, back in the day. The powers we had. The wizard wars. Balls of energy shot through the air by people with deep knowledge of an inner world we’ve locked behind prison bars of scripture. If the ancient times sound familiar, sound modern and post-modern, […]
Why do we nurture children and animals and show babies unconditional love? We know how steam from our core wafts to the surface to become subconscious and conscious reasons for where we direct our affection. But what is the core? Wait. Actually, what did I just say? Let’s go…. We appear to be individuated beings, […]
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 […]
You cannot master the unknowable. Just ask a fetus. A fetus may think it’s got the whole world in its newly formed hands, but on that magical day of its ninth month of development, BOOM! It dies an agonizing death to become a baby. A mouth breather. A completely differentiated creature of time. Of course, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Brain-self death is simply about reorganizing the psyche so that the human being is properly aligned and running smoothly on universal energy. Brain-self must die only to resurrect in heart. When this happens, the person is in the healthy state, ready for the next transcendence where the body remains as a time form that is […]