About three weeks ago, at 4 am, my wife heard a noise in the bathroom. When she went to check it out and found me in a semi-conscious state. I had fallen against the wall and cut my head. I couldn’t speak. I was swaying back and forth. She guided me down to the floor [...]
Growth and Protection is the name of a chapter in the must-read book by Dr. Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief. He states in his book that growth and protection mechanisms are the fundamental behaviors required for an organism (or a society) to survive. And to illustrate briefly what he means by growth and protection, [...]
Divine Love is one of those topics that people can talk about and theorize about all day
The experience I am going through now I call the Zen of Being Sick. Over the weekend I became sick. I lost my voice. I probably have bronchitis. I have a fever, chills, no energy for work and too much discomfort for sleep. And the end result is feeling miserable. And yet, it serves a [...]
February 28, 2009 – 10:56 pm
Emerson wrote once that everyone he met was in some way his superior, and in that way, he learns from them. And while I also experience that to be true, what I find more significant is this: that once in a great while I meet someone, or hear of someone, whose life inspires me to [...]
February 24, 2009 – 9:59 am
There are detours on the spiritual path. When someone is first drawn to the spiritual path, there is, no doubt, a burning love for God. And to the degree that this love consumes consciousness determines the progress on the path.
February 22, 2009 – 12:13 am
David Hawkins, writes in his book, Discovery of the Presence of God — Devotional Nonduality, that serious spiritual seekers adjust their lifestyle to be in accord with their spiritual commitment. This brings up issues such as attachments, relationships, possessions. etc. “In the end, to the true devotee, the pursuit of spiritual reality supersedes all other [...]
February 18, 2009 – 3:58 pm
In hindsight, I realize that even though I don’t have the Meher Baba’s autographed copy of Stay with God, he gave me something much more valuable. He gave me His sweet presence and a drop of His bliss, and the conviction that He is the Ancient One, the Avatar, God in human form. He is Infinite Love, and as the late singer-song writer Bob Brown used to sing to Him: “You are so close, you make my breath seem far.”
February 9, 2009 – 3:03 pm
To perceive perfectly the absolute oneness that envelops us all is to be Self Realized.
February 4, 2009 – 2:25 pm
Today I finished the final touches on a design of a website and blog for a group of students at the University of Maryland. The site is StartDreaming.org. The students formed an elite group, with some faculty supervision, dedicated to helping high school and junior high school students find their financial way to college. I [...]
January 19, 2009 – 12:04 pm
A reader asked me what is the best way to let go of extra weight that was put on due to the ego’s fear and need for protection several years ago. Here are my thoughts that I shared with her: This is an all too common reflex of the ego, which is in its essence, an [...]
December 21, 2008 – 10:58 am
I wasn’t expecting to be talking about a new humanity when I called an old friend from the West Coast a few days ago. He is a teacher of special needs children in Los Angeles. He is also a poet, an actor, a lover of God, and the best joke teller I have ever known. [...]
December 6, 2008 – 1:37 pm
Ten thousand hours. No I’m not talking about how long it took to drive home from Asheville the Sunday after Thanksgiving, although the traffic was pretty slow on part of the route. But last weekend my wife Maggie and I did go to Asheville. And after a big lunch at an Indian restaurant with the [...]
November 12, 2008 – 4:54 pm
No, I haven’t dropped off the face of the planet. Life has been pulling at me from many directions. Between the election, major home renovations, taking Photoshop CS3 courses, preparing for a photo exhibit, plus travel and website design work, I have been busy.
October 30, 2008 – 12:44 pm
“Yes we can” is the new clarion call. Nothing can mobilize the dormant and pent-up energy within us than an affirming belief that we are unlimited in our potential, that we are not isolated and separate, but part of a beautiful wholeness that by its nature, includes everyone and everything. Joseph Campbell once said that [...]
October 22, 2008 – 11:30 am
This past weekend I attended a workshop on energy psychology. I was the only non-therapist in the room. Why was I there? I wanted to learn new tools for myself, and I wanted to write about it for my blog. The brochure I received in the mail looked good, but I didn’t know just how [...]
October 9, 2008 – 8:39 am
Perhaps you know the axiom that where there is a crisis, there is an opportunity. So what is the opportunity in the current world financial crisis, besides buying cheap stocks? Is there a spiritual component to it? Yes, the financial world seems to be spinning out of control. Banks are going under, houses are being [...]
September 24, 2008 – 1:11 pm
The other night I phoned an old friend of mine. I had not spoken to Christopher Ott for several years. He used to be a roommate of mine in Los Angeles back in the early 1980s. He’s become a philosopher and the author of a very expensive book I’m now reading. You can find it [...]
September 16, 2008 – 10:28 pm
Here is a quote about holistic living: “A person is like a house with four rooms; mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional. Unless one goes to each room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, one is not a whole person.” — Anonymous My sister read this quote to me just the other day and [...]
September 7, 2008 – 10:32 am
Hypocrisy is all too common. Have you ever met someone who tried to make an impression on you of being holier than thou? Don’t be fooled. You don’t become a saint by just looking like a saint. Progress on the path comes from being more and more human, and more and more natural. Hypocrisy is [...]
August 26, 2008 – 10:07 pm
We are infinite beings. Every one of us, young and old, healthy and sick, rich and poor, are spiritual beings. This is our primary reality. We are not our circumstances. The conditions of our lives, whether we are young or old, healthy or sick, etc., are just temporal experiences. They are not lasting. If they [...]
August 13, 2008 – 6:00 pm
In Persia, the mystical poet Hafiz referred to Divine Love as wine. And he would often write about having the tavern keeper (The Divine Beloved) fill his glass (his heart) with this wine. But a glass (the heart) can’t be filled with wine (divine love) if it is filled with something else (desires). So to [...]
Have you ever noticed that some people hold attitudes and beliefs for a lifetime? There is a reason for that, and it is also the reason why making spiritual progress can be so hard. That reason , according to the late psychiatrist David Shainberg (he died in December 1993) is that thoughts are like vortices [...]
Steve Pavlina writes: “You can’t be intelligent if you turn your back on truth and succumb to falsehood and denial.” How Much more true that is if you are striving for higher consciousness or even Self Realization. This process of facing truth and not succumbing to falsehood and denial is a continual challenge. We so [...]
When people suffer it sometimes prompts them to try to understand the purpose of suffering. “Why me?” is a frequent refrain. But the answer to the question is that it comes to us all. My wife has been going through some physical suffering for the last week. This prompted me to seek a solution for [...]