Conscious Living

A friend recently introduced me to David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine Monk who survived Hitler’s Germany, emigrated to the U.S. in the 1950s and, today, when he isn’t living as a hermit, still gives inspiring talks at nearly 92 years of age. I particularly love…

In my garage sit several boxes filled with the after effects of my father’s life, including hundreds of photos of unfamiliar faces stretching back to equally unfamiliar places and times. The thing is, nobody is left to interpret those for me anyway, meaning that…

So there’s this thing called the ‘Perennial Wisdom’ that’s composed of the accumulated teachings of mystics and masters, gurus and prophets over the ages. You know the types, Jesus of Nazareth, Guatama Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Teresa of Avila, Lao Zi, Shankara. The core of…

As I see it, we move through this thing called ‘my life’ until, at some point, our sense of ownership and control over it is exposed as the illusion it’s always been. We spend years – decades – believing otherwise; that we have the…

Think I’ve shared this before, but in my early teens I kind of got swept up in stories about near-death experiences, about how all over the world and cultures and across history these NDEs have largely shared many of the same traits. And about…

So here’s what I can tell you about the spiritual journey in the event you’re one of those types who mostly pays lip service to it or barely dips a toe in and might be wondering what some ordinary, every day schmuck like me…