The human world is all concepts made manifest. You can’t look at a human construction without recognising its conceptual basis.
But what of the constructions of nature?
Who’s conceptions are they?
The human world is all concepts made manifest. You can’t look at a human construction without recognising its conceptual basis.
But what of the constructions of nature?
Who’s conceptions are they?
I’ve been thinking about narratives and how they help us make sense of the world, stories that approximate a description of what’s going on essentially. For me it’s a spiritual story, obviously. Something like; the soul comes to grow and evolve and ultimately to restore its dignity and wholeness and identity with its Divine origin….
The teachings of nonduality can sometimes seem to be somewhat abstract, or removed from one’s lived experience, or even rejecting of it. It may be that these teachings, being so uncompromising about the causes of suffering and its remedies, seem to disregard the human-ness of life in favour of a cold, relentless discrimination. But the truth…
The Global Ascension narrative is a huge distraction and deflection from the real work of Self-realization. So many seekers waiting for the world to ascend to higher consciousness, waiting to catch a ride on the Global Awakening tour bus are misguided and misdirected. Because this waiting is a hidden avoidance. Waiting for the rising waters…
Among other things, spiritual awakening is the trigger for radical release, the popped cork that frees up the suppressed energetics held in place by the egoic self. So post-awakening there can often be — but not always — a strong and sometimes lengthy release of embodied trauma. Many people experience this to varying degrees, but…
Enlightenment is a function of Grace. But then so is practice. Some might say there’s a qualitative difference between the (seemingly) personal activities or practices like ‘letting go’ or ‘noticing and returning’ and the actions of Grace. But these are as much the spontaneous display of consciousness as the final dissolution of the (illusory) egoic…
Is it more likely nowadays that a spiritual seeker will be more eclectic and varied in their sources than before the internet? Is this then a new kind of approach than the typically singular, structured traditions of instruction and knowledge? Is there some power and value in that? Good, bad, other? I know many earnest…