"It is not what a person says, but the level from which they say it, that determines the truth of a spiritual statement." He was a young professor, from a...
"Yes, I see. But could you give some examples?" He was furiously scribbling, but I was not sure if he was taking notes or recording his own thoughts. "Okay....
"How can you tell if their consciousness extends beyond the gross realm?" "Once consciousness becomes strong enough to persist from the waking state into the...
"Yes, I can see that. So if you are at the subtle stage, you have access . . . ?" "At the subtle stage you have access to a variety of forms of deity...
"You also mention the nondual." "Yes, once you push through causal formlessness-which is the home of the pure Witness-then the Witness itself collapses into...
"Look, here's the point," I suggested. "There have recently been a plethora of books about how all things are part of a unified whole, we are all strands in...
Breakthrough I've been diving fairly deeply into my stuff the last 14 months, and this morning during meditation, I think I hit a new level of integration. I'd...
We talked about a piece of the technique known as "Mind Reading." It is based on looking at all three major areas of a person's life simultaneously. If they...
The Hero's Journey suggests that the process of growth from one level to another is ALWAYS accompanied by failure and despair, a sense of Hitting the Wall. All...
Meditation this morning started with heartbeat, then I used Mulabhanda (anal lock) to ground myself, found the spark of light at the third chakra, and breathed...
For the record, here are my thoughts about overweight : 1) Low metabolism. A real factor. It can seem terribly unfair that one's siblings or friends can eat...
Is it fair that people judge us for our failings and weaknesses? Hell, no. But we ALL do it. Don't tell me that you don't select your friends for their...
Saying "my habits are sedentary" is interesting. So what? What if the issue was being broke? Would you say: "I don't like going to work?" How about school?...
DEVELOPMENT AND REGRESSION [Phone Conversation with a Study Group] QUESTION: Since you are presenting a type of integral holism, why do you criticize so many...
QUESTION: That's why you're worried about regression in this country. KW: Yes. We are seeing various trends that want to surrender the postconventional,...
QUESTION: Is there anything beneficial in the diversity and multicultural movements? KW: Oh, definitely. Those liberal movements are trying to express a...
So...I'm going to go over the seven subjects I want for "Seven Secrets." 1) I.D.E.A.--Instinctive Designation of Energy and Attention. The idea is that mastery...
So here's the next one of the Seven Secrets: Fear Removal ("The Spider Technique") Created by Coach Scott Sonnon (www.rmaxinternational.com) , and based on his...
All spiritual practice is a rehearsal-and at its best, an enactment-of death. As the mystics put it, "If you die before you die, then when you die, you won't...
There is such a sharp difference between Witnessing and depersonalization. In the former you are nonattached; in the latter, detached. In the former, you have...
Read. http://www.gnhealth.com/articles/whichArticle.php?article=224 I'm sure many of you know much of this already, but it's nice to have it all in one place. ...
The effects that different types of music have is fascinating. Rock music, no question, hits the lower chakras (perhaps 2 to 3, sex and power.)22 Rap music is...
People make two common mistakes on the way to One Taste. The first occurs in contacting the Witness, the second occurs in moving from the Witness to One Taste...
Once people have become comfortable resting as the empty Witness, and once they notice the tension that is the self-contraction, they imagine that to finally...
And so, the practice? When you rest in the Witness, or rest in I-I, or rest in Emptiness, simply notice the self-contraction. Rest in the Witness, and feel the...
So here are the steps: Rest as the Witness, feel the self-contraction. As you do so, notice that the Witness is not the self-contraction-it is aware of it. The...
That is what might be called a "capping exercise." Do it, not instead of, but in addition to, whatever other practice you are doing-centering prayer,...
Precisely because the ego, the soul, and the Self can all be present simultaneously, we can better understand the real meaning of "egolessness,'' a notion that...
There is certainly a type of truth to the notion of transcending ego: it doesn't mean destroy the ego, it means plug it into something bigger. (As Nagarjuna...
It's not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too cognitive. It's more like the simple...
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