My Favourite Videos “Everybody Loves Raymond” illustrates how no-one knows why we are here on earth, with humour. (Refer to the chapter “Survey says?!” in “The Alchemy of Love and Joy”. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZjbBuqaT4s&feature=related[/youtube] Find out who you are now [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S06tpkfKYEQ&feature=subtivity[/youtube] What is the evidence of “You”? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFYHlTV-FS8&NR=1[/youtube] Stay as I am [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBcWBKzFb1E&feature=related[/youtube] Before knowledge [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJqM8XRIFsw&NR=1[/youtube] Papaji answers “Can you show me God?” [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqOwPteS_Xg[/youtube] Detonator for the ego [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfl-uwrmgo&feature=related[/youtube] Surrender [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDFXYCvTguE[/youtube] Absolute Watchfulness [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lri0TAOyXRg&feature=related[/youtube] Were you born? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhD51Zi-DUM&feature=related[/youtube] Forget about enlightenment [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pS_wPeDxDQ&feature=related[/youtube] You are the Holy Spirit [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwJGTOI8k0&feature=related[/youtube] Amazing Grace [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I5unCsE8mE&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]
Today is not the day that Dad died
Today is the seven-year anniversary of my Father’s rebirth into spirit. Notice how much less a “charge” there is, how much less suffering there is, how much more truth and presence there is in the statement of the anniversary. Today is not the day that Dad died. That day was a long time ago, and that day, that experience, has nothing to do with this day, this experience. This day is not that day, and we do not have to try to “reincarnate” that day now. If I had not been reminded, it would not have been top in my consciousness and may have passed unobserved. That is not a suppression or avoidance of any kind. It is a simply …
Celebrate Life!
Celebrate Life! In memory of Dawn On New Year’s eve day I called a friend I had not seen in a few months, and learned she was in hospital, dealing with 4th stage cancer. Fourth stage means that the cancer has moved elsewhere, beyond it’s origin. Her liver was the largest problem; it was not doing a good job purifying the blood of toxins. The day I arrived she had enough energy to occasionally sit-up on her own , smile, and hug. But the disease had progressed fast. At 46 she looked 80, her skin was jaundiced and drooping. New Year’s eve dinner was a salad in the hospital, sitting near her, and it was one of the greatest gifts …
Why do we hurt those we love?
Why do we hurt those we love? It is said that every attack is a cry for help. When someone is hurting sufficiently in some way, that kind of pain can motivate them to act-out or try to hurt others, even those they love the most. This is an attempt to stop their suffering by getting their needs met. They turn to the (person/thing) outside because they believe it is the outside that is hurting them. Anyone who is hurting simply wants to feel good, and so the core intention is good. However, if you hurt someone you love because you were hurting, you will later regret it, whether you got what you wanted or not. Simply put, with this …
Seek Joy Contest!
Seek Joy and Win! Meet Joy! Joy was given to me by an The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ reader. I will be traveling all over with Joy, and taking photos wherever we go. One photo will have Joy hidden in it, and that picture will be published in my newsletter. The first 28 readers who find Joy and reply with where Joy is hidden wins a free gift. The first place Joy was lost was in Barron Canyon, near Petwawa Ontario. The prizes were free audio recordings of “I Am,” a technique to eliminate limiting beliefs so that you can be, do, and have all you want in life. Next time it won’t be as easy, but it is …
Don’t just fill your cup–realize it is bottomless
Don’t just fill your cup–realize it is bottomless After an Alchemy of Love and Joy™ session, people leave feeling happy and peaceful. The other day a client called to make an appointment “I really need it,” she said. That, along with some other readers’ comments like, “I read your book when I need a tune-up,” and “it picks me up when I feel down,” brought to my attention the need for more emphasis on how the practice can help you realize your innate freedom, permanently. You don’t need the book. That is an outside thing. You don’t need a session to “tune-up,” to “recharge your battery,” or to “fill your cup” or your “tank.” Your intention for doing the work …
Tempted to sit in the park like Tolle
AUG 2009 –am I enlightened? When I go into a “Feel-Good-Fest,” not unlike lovers who cuddle (though I am my lover), sometimes the specific thing I want and give myself grows into such a beautiful, glowing, overall state of love, connection, peace, joy, and well-being that it seems I could just float in it forever, that is, if there was such a thing as time. One day during this, I thought of Ekhart Tolle’s experience of sitting on a park bench for years. Yes, I could see how someone could do that. The draw to go inside and explore all that we are capable of is there. Now I know that entering into and exploring the great mystery is an …
Waking Joy at a Wake
Waking Joy at a Wake The wake today was an experience unlike any other. Of course they all are; every moment is, because this moment has never happened before. Yet old mind habitual response can make things seem the same. Today, approaching the closed casket, and looking into the bright, sparking, and kind eyes in the photo of my deceased friend, for a moment joy began to arise, then I watched as it was quickly shut-down by a thought like, “yeah but you can’t feel that, that’s not her, she’s not here,” and I felt a familiar old suffering mind try to rise. The impulse was to look away and move away, however I stayed; stayed looking into those eyes …
When We Suffer, We Can’t Know Truth
When We Suffer, We Can’t Know Truth “What you fear appears,” is a powerful truth. I have seen someone I love suffer about something they believed, which could not be more untrue; it was in fact in opposition to reality. At the peak of their suffering, even when provided with the truth and evidence against their belief, they still could not stop suffering. At first my old self-centric habit was to react with hurt and pain at the false judgments. However this gift was a wide-eye-opener, a direct seeing of delusion and suffering. There was such incongruency with reality, that it just did not make any sense, and that helped me to drop the self and my suffering, and to …
Joy in Sickness
Joy in Sickness Last night, for the first time since learning how to awaken joy, I felt physically sick, and the phenomena was fascinating. It may have been the orange juice and iron pill that triggered the “pained feeling” in my stomach, which became an overall feeling of sickness so quickly that I did not notice the switch–until I began the practice. As I went inside to seek a better feeling, it was almost like the stomach pain separated from the sickness feeling. As the good feeling grew, the sickness feeling faded, disappeared, and then even the stomach pain felt far away. When I stopped practicing, the sickness feeling returned! So I continued feeling good (while noticing the distant “pain”), …