Many people think being “spiritual” is working on themselves within. But spirituality has nothing to do with inner work, because: There is no separate self within. That’s not to say that you don’t exist.
Spiritual unconsciousness is not what you think it is
What is unconsciousness, in the spiritual context? It’s not like when you get put under for surgery. Today a client said, “Something happened on our call yesterday.” I asked, “What?” They replied, “Maybe you didn’t notice. I started to get more anxious as we were talking. Started crying. Started to let thoughts take over, which I realized is my issue.”
What happened to Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie?
People think you have to suffer to wake up. They hear what happened with Eckhart Tolle and Byron Katie. How they suffered. But it’s not just the suffering they have in common. And suffering wasn’t the key commonality.
Bad emotions are not the ego
While bad emotions may be a “stink” that comes from ego, they are not what ego is, in and of itself. Good emotions (worldly attachment happiness) also are stink from the ego…
People think we are connected, and that is the problem
People think we are connected, and that is the problem. What is required, assumed, or built-in, in order to be connected? Disconnected. We originally think we are “other” than the totality. We imagine that we exist as some actual, separate thing called a person. So we try to band-aid that strong belief in separation with a weaker idea that we are “connected.” It will never work. What is needed is to begin to see…
How can we all be one?
Pop Quiz! How many trees are there? I saw this on my walk tonight, and it inspired this blog. Seen from a limited perspective, it appears there are two trees. But that is not the truth. Seen from the true perspective, there is indeed only one tree.
My old persona would have been freaking out…
…my old persona would have been freaking out, and getting sick, and not being able to sleep because of the intensity of it all…”
On Sunday, Fluffy passed on. Here’s how Alchemy helped…
You might know Fluffy from previous videos, or from my first book, Alchemy. Years ago, he interrupted me in the middle of my suffering, dramatically teaching me the difference between the story (or movie in the mind), and reality–and how to wake up out of it.
Do you feel like something is missing?
Ever have the feeling that something’s missing? Something is not quite right? I’ve had that feeling off and on since a child… in 2010, I realized this feeling was real, why I had it, and what was missing.
Why it hurts to question yourself, and why you should anyway
People often don’t like it (at first) when we begin to closely look at their dearly held ideas and beliefs about themselves and the world. I was afraid to let my ideas and beliefs go because I had nothing else. But we must do so, if we want Truth…