‘It’s all about consciousness.’ A line from a favorite long-dead teacher that beautifully sums up the entirety of existence. I can attest to the truth of that statement. Or, more precisely, consciousness can attest to it. Consciousness writes this blog and consciousness ‘reads’ it. And the consciousness that reads it is either in a state that understands it or it doesn’t. You and I and everything around us – the universe itself – is consciousness. Or, if you prefer, God,…
It is said that as our journey inward intensifies, that which we seek – God, Truth, etc. – goes ahead of us ‘straighten the crooked places.’ Part of that process is to remove relationships that distract from that journey. Not so long ago that…
The day after Labor Day when, for most of us, we return to work we dislike. Telling, isn’t it, that a majority of heart attacks occur on Mondays, the day that our labors begin, and the fewest occur on Saturdays, the commencement of a…
It is said the greatest of all human addictions is that to one’s self, which is to say, the addiction to an I that stands separate, alone, and ultimately doomed. Looking back it’s pretty clear that the way I reinforced and ensured that addiction…
My first childhood hero was an agent on the popular television program, “The FBI.” Despite getting shot every week or two, he never complained and always managed to get the bad guy. Alas, a tour of FBI headquarters did to my hero-agent what all those…
No doubt because I have participated in a handful of sweat lodges, a number of friends recently have forwarded me media articles pertaining to the recent sweat lodge deaths at a “spiritual” retreat in Sedona, Arizona. These emails also are understandably implying that sweat…