Our brilliant ancestors. It does not make sense to think that we, here in this modern world, are smarter in any way than our ancient, ancient ancestors were 10,000 years ago, 30,000 years ago, 40,000 years ago. Time to change the story. The picture that we’re given is of savage brutes roaming the world. I …
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True spirituality
True spiritual connection is about being able to live, noticing an ever more complex world, rather than trying to simplify life.
Not two is about you
Non-duality says there’s not two, and that’s about you. That doesn’t mean that there’s not two people. I mean, obviously, there’s me and there’s you. There’s that guy over there, and there are some other people over there. Obviously, there are trees and there are rocks, and there’s all sorts of multitude of things. But …
Nonduality means everything exists
Nonduality means everything exists. It doesn’t mean that everything’s an illusion, just that you see illusion, but everything exists.
Wisdom comes through the hands
Based on no data at all, no empirical studies, no long speeches by ancient philosophers, I believe that our hands are the conduit of wisdom. Wisdom comes through us as much through our hands as through our ears and our eyes and things like that. We do know from scientists that brain cells aren’t just …
Simplifying Complexity
Simplifying complexity. So, click on the links below, and you will go to a page with some recommended books by indigenous philosophers who are coming up with brilliant ways to speak to us in our language, English, about the wisdom that has been passed down through generations of people living a natural life. One of …
Death of the ego
The death of the ego sounds pretty dramatic, doesn’t it? It’s not actually a real, accurate description of waking up because what actually dies is just your obsession with the ego – the connection to it, the infatuation with it, the weakness of not being in control of it, of letting this really nasty part …
Newsletter: Nonduality in the Natural World
The bottom line is that studying any sort of spirituality will not do us any good unless it grounds us in the natural world. Unless it sits us firmly into the world the way is not through our illusions. Generations before us would have had the luxury of drifting away in their imaginations and living …
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