Willingness is the first sign of 'spring' - of the maturity of the human mind/ego. It is the transition from mind/ego driven living to soul guided living. As we enter the energy field of willingness, we are open to ease, to synchronicities, to flow. We are open to 'miracles'. As we become willing, there is little to 'do'. We are less driven and more inspired. We shift from mind domination to a trust that something greater than us is Continue Reading
The ‘Map of Emotions’ – #8 – Pride
Pride is where many nations - including America - are snagged. Healthy pride gives us a sense of our accomplishments - of our inherent good. Entrenched pride obscures our vision and holds us captive to our ego. It justifies our actions and holds us in a self-named place of 'hero'. Healthy pride gives us a sense of confidence and a consistent glow in our inner furnace enabling us to carry on with our upward spiral movement. It signals to us Continue Reading
What Anger Is – Part Two
When uninterrupted, emotions 'arc' - just like a storm. First, there is a chill in the air, a gentle stirring. Then there is a mounting of energy, a building up of intrinsic power. Then there is a peak, a crest. Then there is a descent, into nothingness, as if the 'arc' never was. Yet … the air is gentler, softer, clearer after the storm. As humans in our codependent culture we have been taught to identify with our emotions and thus Continue Reading
Cultivating Courage – The Practice – Part 2
So what are some ideas – that I’ve tried and can guarantee work – that might start you on your way of ‘cultivating courage’? Here are a few that I’ve chosen in my first week … Leaving clothes unfolded in my pack sack when I knew they’d be going straight into laundry when I got home from my camping trip. (I’m typically a very neat person.) Repeating the same the next day – this time with the Continue Reading
Bliss ‘Off the Grid’
It's been an amazing week living 'off the grid'. Our ancestors only knew 'off the grid' living - living unplugged from the electricity grid. They built fires, hauled water, and lived in natural daylight. Some people around the world still do - by necessity, and / or by choice - live in this intimate relationship with nature's cycles. At least once every year - and often more frequently - I take myself 'off the grid'. Continue Reading
Living a Yogic Life – Part 2
The second challenge for those of us yearning to live a more deeply meaningful, peaceful, ‘yogic’ life is this: ‘Free’ will (read more in my forthcoming book “The Ego and The Soul – A Map for Humanity’s Ultimate Survival”) allows us the option to align ourselves with what we want – or stray from it. Inherent in ‘free’ will is the deluded disguise that – because ‘I can do anything I want’, I am somehow not Continue Reading
The Ego and The Soul
What I want to be writing is a book about how humanity awakens its intelligence to recognize its co-creative capacity. And how with this, it chooses to let fear dissolve into nothingness whilst it opens its gates to what it has only ever dreamed of: love and joy, safety and community, sharing and exuberance, and recognition that we all, at our core, want the same things: trust, fulfillment of our true potential, outlets to share our unique and Continue Reading
Piercing the Veil
I will articulate this as clearly as I can – as it is literally dawning in my awareness as I awaken this morning. Like mountain peaks that are suddenly – finally – revealed as the perpetual mist that has veiled them lifts – I see this so clearly now. The ‘ceiling’ that has been keeping human consciousness – and thus human societies’ experience – in limitation / slavery is thinking. Who would have guessed? We have Continue Reading
Ego’s Hold II
Further to “Ego’s Hold”, when Ego is unable to formulate a person’s identity, schisms occur.[1] Let’s dig in the soil to recognize some of these. Despite the reality that Ego ‘commission one’[2] is tasked with orienting the Soul in Space and Time, it, too, needs to have its bearings. This is perhaps the key reason why Ego creates ‘identity’. Identity – a perception of who one is – gives Ego its bearings. It identifies who the Continue Reading
Ego’s Hold
Insights can be buried deep. Like seeds inches beneath the soil, they can remain indefinitely dormant, latent, unsprouted. To dig to them – to penetrate the darkness that keeps them hidden – can require determination – might – sheer laser light of consciousness. We need to sense them. We need to want them – to be able to uncover the soil that cloaks them and let them see light. Such is the case last evening and this morning. Continue Reading