What would our ancestors say if we could sit down with them today and learn? And I’m not talking about just our immediate grandmothers and grandfathers. Here today, most of us have gone through centuries of darkness—centuries where our ancestors themselves were living in the same confused state that we’re in. They’re the ones who …
Category Archives: Retelling the Human Story
The Majority of our Consciousness
The vast majority of our consciousness is not being used in today’s world. We have opted to turn off what you might call the silent part of our knowing in favor of the loud, what we would call the mind, the logical mind. But the logical mind is there to analyze what comes to us …
Retelling the Human Story: Food
Nonduality and food. In this series, we’re retelling the story of humanity. We’re sitting around the fire here, having a little talk and retelling who we are. So let’s talk about food. It’s really interesting that nonduality teachers never talk about food, except maybe in the context of should you be a vegetarian or should …
Retelling the Human Story: Our Ancestors
Here we are again, sitting around the fire and retelling the story of who we are as human beings. Let’s talk about our ancestors. First of all, let’s note that we are the ancestors for the future. We are creating this world for what comes next. This is a huge responsibility. Looking at that honestly …
Nonduality Jesus & Buddha
Nonduality and Jesus and Buddha—let’s really go out on a limb here and apply some non-dualistic thinking to our history. Let’s start with Buddha: Who was he, what did he discover, and what did it mean? If we place Buddha within the long timeline of human history, which we’re starting to understand as extending over …
Retelling the Human Story: Watching TV
We’re retelling the story of humanity here in this series of videos, sitting around the fire and telling stories. One of the things that I love to do is to watch TV and movies because this is our main storytelling medium today. I’ve noticed over the years that it seems to go through themes, and …
The Air is Sacred
The air is sacred, and I don’t mean that in a woo-woo, pretend sort of way. I mean, take a look—just take a deep look. Use your actual deep human intelligence to notice air. I just breathed in a bunch of it. We live within the atmosphere. We know that ancient peoples and Indigenous people …
Retelling the Human Story
Retelling the human story is vital today because if we want to start grappling with the way we’re living on the planet and how we’re living with each other, we need to know who we are. We can’t know who we are as individuals if we don’t understand who humanity is because, ultimately, what we …