Blogs
The Anti-Guru and the Shadow
Over the last few years I have seen the rise of the “anti-guru”: people who have set up their lives, their businesses, and their social media presence around “calling out” others for being false. Not so terribly long ago, I participated in some of the “anti-guru” type...
read moreCosmic Insignificance: The Joy of the Cosmic Play
You can look at Part One and Part Two that set up the theoretical framework as well as provide relevant context for this blog. In many ways, I see the spiritual path as a spiral. Once birthed from the cocoon of ignorance, we go through a cycle of learning and...
read moreCosmic Insignificance Part Two: Breaking out of the Cocoon
Cosmic insignificance is a really misunderstood concept, and so I am doing a three part blog series to discuss why it is so misunderstood, and what profound benefits realizing cosmic insignificance brings to those who experience it. In this blog I will discuss the...
read moreThe Cosmic Significance… of Insignificance (Part One)
This will be a two-part blog– in the first, I will deconstruct the idea of “being special”. In the second, I will talk about how powerful the understanding of cosmic insignificance is. How this realization brings so much to those who are ready and willing to...
read moreDark Night of the Soul… and Understanding the Layers of Reality
One of the things that I find it vital to understand is the difference between lived, embodied experience and conceptual ideologies. Put more simply, you can understand something from a book on an intellectual level, you can repeat it often to others, you can say it...
read moreBeyond the Hedge
It is quite understandable to think of the spiritual path as a spiral. The structure of a spiral or other toroidal forms point to a realization that we return to the same point again and again, but with different perspective– a...
read moreOn Meditation (and the Five Week Meditation Course)
This course will be offered starting on October 24th, 2019. You can sign up for it here Please read the course description and policies before signing up. This course does have limited enrollment, and my courses do tend to fill quickly. One of my favorite descriptions...
read moreKundalini Awakening: Feeling overwhelmed, devastated, clinician advice
I did a Q & A last week on Facebook about kundalini and spiritual awakening to celebrate the release of my new book, Working with Kundalini (out Tuesday, or April in the UK). I am not accepting any new questions, but look forward to everyone receiving the book,...
read moreAwakening and the Tri-Brain Model
There are many models that can be utilized to describe the awakening process. One of the ones that I have been sitting with for a period of time is the tri-brain model. To be somewhat simplistic about this, the tri-brain model (or triune model) divides the brain into...
read moreBringing in a New Self
As we are coming upon a New Year, or may have just crossed the threshold into a New Year (depending on when you are reading this), we come upon the inevitable thoughts of change, of becoming anew. On my Facebook page a few weeks ago I talked about why resolutions...
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