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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The universe is a psychedelic trip in slow motion. Given enough time, anything one experiences on a trip can be reproduced. What feels spectacular in a trip is the immediacy of everything: a variety of visuals happening at once–heightened senses and emotions in the foreground, imagination in the foreground–and the personal self recessed, last seat […]