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 […]
Yeah, man. Take a hit of this, man… and free your miiiiiiind…. The mind can alter gradually or in a singular transformative moment. The main way modern spiritual modalities display hierarchies is by misrepresenting lateral methods of slow transition to heart as vertical moves toward wholeness. This, because our want as thought constructs is to […]
The yolk, the egg, the bird are one. But try telling them that. The caterpillar, the cocoon, and the moth are one. But try telling them that. Egg shells. Cocoons. What can these fragile living containers tell us about our lives? Everything we need to know. There is the organism, the space containing the organism, which […]