What we’re talking about this week is history and how it informs our worldview. A worldview is our deepest views of who we are, including how we fit in the world. We’re talking about the history we have been told, the history of who human beings are, and how it comes from a place of …
Author Archives: Zareen
Rewriting the Human Story
If we want to rewrite the human story to give ourselves a more realistic view of who we are as human beings, we need to rethink the way that we see, uh, pre-civilized people. We are constantly told that they were miserable and dirty and hungry, and only lived to 30 years old, and it …
The Stories We’ve Been Told
The stories that we’ve been told about who we are are so deep in our consciousness that it takes a lot of work to get them out. One thing that you’ll notice about me is that I’m kind of snarky about, and critical of, the stories that come to us about Nonduality. That’s because those …
Our Bad History
The history that we’ve been taught in our Western culture shows human beings to be basically bad. We do really lots of bad things, and our history is about all the bad things that we’ve done. What if, instead, from day one of our lives, every single one of us was taught that human beings …
History is Written by the Conquerors
History is written by the conquerors. We all know this. How in the world does this apply to any kind of spirituality, or Nonduality, or native wisdom? Well… it’s because you and I, and all the people on this planet, are the result of the history that’s happened. Everything that our ancestors have done has …
Thoughts are Language
If we can start seeing our thoughts as language itself, it becomes a lot easier to start managing our internal landscape, because we know that language can be relearned. – Talking about History – This week we are talking about history and how the history that we have learned has created our world view… and …
Let’s talk about history
So let’s talk about history. They say that history is written by the conquerors… but have we looked deeply into what that means? First it helps to stretch the human story into a longer timeline. When we look at the full length of history there is something like 100,000 years of human beings on the …
Untraining Ourselves
What if our unenlightened state, where we find ourselves right now, is really just the result of training… and we could untrain ourselves. – Language and Thoughts – We’ve been talking this week about language and thoughts, and how that relates to non-duality and to Native spirituality. What we know about Native languages is that …