Are you feeling confused about spirituality? If that’s the case, then it’s just because you’re letting the part of you that doesn’t need spirituality dictate your spirituality. First of all, if you’re letting something outside of you dictate your spirituality, you’re never going to find it. If you’re trying to analyze it and create a …
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Newsletter: Unhook from the critical mind
Having an attitude To become an ever more sane person in an insane world… that’s the purpose of non dual teachings. We are taught from birth that we don’t really exist, that what exists is our thoughts, desires and emotions. Breaking free from that is leaping into reality. Reality. A place where other things besides …
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Becoming a Shaman
One of the ways that white people prove that we’re just freaking idiots, is how everyone wants to be a shaman. I mean, as soon as Carlos Castaneda came out, however long ago that was, everybody started wanting to be a shaman. I know a white gal over in Colorado who’s self-declared herself as a …
Reaching the inner depths
Reaching into the inner depths… it’s actually a very useful way to think about spirituality (although technically it’s backward). But the idea of reaching into the inner depths gives us, gives us an opportunity to stop for a second, take that breath. Here we are. It’s habitual for us to live on the surface – …
The Pope is making a stink
So, the Pope seems to be making a big stink these days, and that’s pretty amazing. First of all, it shows how radical some spirituality can get. How fixed and mean a teaching about love can become so that even the Pope has to speak up against it, against his own people. That’s pretty radical. …
Unhook from the critical mind
Little-known secret: when you unhook from the logical, critical mind, it actually starts working better and becomes a fabulous tool.
How do you tell if someone is awake
How do you tell if someone is truly awake or not? This is a question that comes up a lot in groups. The reason people are always asking this question is because they want to find somebody that’s not going to suck them into a cult, or steal their money, or fool them in some …
The same old thinking
We all know the saying: “You can’t create a new paradigm using the same thinking that created the old paradigm.” But what do you do? You’re stuck in your paradigm, and the number one thing that keeps us in that paradigm is our language. Like right now, I’m writing and I’m using English. It’s the …