I know a few people, and have come across others, who invest belief into the idea of Karma. Yet I have also observed that there are different ways of relating to karma. The approach to karma I have been observing in some of my friends is one that for me seems rather...
She served me the beer I was now drinking and enjoying with my friend. We sat there, in mental and emotional territory awoken or perhaps highlighted by our response to the movie we'd just seen only minutes before. Talking. Exploring rather deep and esoteric questions...
Awareness is the key to Liberation. Awareness is the key to Moksha, Freedom, Enlightenment, Inner Peace—call it what you may. Pain is a messenger. A self-created "dark angel" that carries forth shadow blessings. Pain will—when approached in a life-giving and...
Often I have faced situations where I find myself seeking or asking within for an answer to an apparent problem or dilemma. Usually I just sort of know what it is I must do, such as what course of action I must take. I am writing this article mostly for my friends at...
In my observation there a number of assumptions many people make with regards to health and healing, and I'd like to take to take a moment to explore a few of them. I shall list these assumptions in no particular order and take a deeper look at each one: The...
The source of all suffering is separation. When separation exists within the Mind it gives rise to duality. This duality creates a fragmented experience or perception of Self and of the world. The world, of course, is based on separation and on duality. Pain and...
The following is a look at how forgiveness and healing are closely interrelated. Healing in regards to returning to a state of greater wholeness through releasing false identification of Self and transforming actions and choices that were once life-taking into that...
Some months ago I heard the last part of a lecture series given by Ronald Wright that was broadcast on radio. It was quite fascinating. The gist of what I heard was that his extensive research indicated that the primary cause behind the downfall of all great...
"Ecstasy is a Feeling that comes Only When the Heart is tuned to that pitch of Love Which melts it...Which makes it Tender...Which gives it Gentleness Which makes it Humble" Hazat Inayat Kaan - The Sufi Message
UN report shows poverty grinds on The benefits of increased global trade, investment, technology and economic growth are not flowing through to the world's poorest people, a new United Nations report released on June 29 has found. Worldwide, 1.2 billion people live on...
I have written and explained previous to now that the human ego—in the cultures and societies I am familiar with—generally lives in some degree of victim mentality. This is the mentality that I am a victim to life. Things that happen in life, things that people do,...
I have a great deal of respect for the Mankind Project, and I can't begin to explain the degree of love that is aroused within me when I think of the amazing men—men of all shapes and sizes, men from many walks of life—whom I have met through MKP and who have had the...
Attention and Intention are two important aspects of Self for those that wish to wake up and live life consciously. To put it very simply attention is the application or focus of awareness. Upon what do I place my awareness? Where I place or focus my awareness is...
So long as I am viewing the world as something other than free then I am essentially projecting onto the world something that is not real—a false perception. The degree to which I erroneously perceive myself to be anything less than free is the degree to which I will...
Well... I had an interesting experience last night. One which I will share with you. Be warned, it is sexually explicit in nature. Although perhaps not in the way you are thinking. What we will touch on is one aspect of anti-social networking. [P.S. (July 2012) This...
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Last night I watched an excellent movie. I highly recommend seeing it. Here's a review on the movie that gives a little insight into what it's about. The movie is called "Waking Life" by Richard Linklater. Gavin Smith on Richard Linklater's Waking Life. - Review -...
The Sweat Lodge is an ancient tradition --- one that I have experience a number of times over the last 12 years, and have had explained to me in various ways. For me there is some deep symbology in the Sweat Lodge. For the benefit of my fellow men involved in MKP I...
