Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

You know, spirituality is all about identities—which identities choose you, or which identities you choose; but in order to iden ...

turiyatita; and staying there for a while. It is what this guy in the letter was talking about—becoming the Absolute, staying th ...

So you have a dynamic tension between the activity and the silence, love and knowledge. And what a mansion is in between! What a ...

Things Gurus Don’t Tell You.......................................................... Robert used to embrace uselessness. He use ...

more and more from you. The health care system is rigged to extract the most money from you. Fox News and MSNBC are both mouthpi ...

emotions; matched at times with an inner deadness: followed by periods of intense self-doubt and self- inquiry. Do these gurus t ...

live your own truth, rather than society’s, your spouse’s, your children’s, or your employer’s “truths.” Intense practice or int ...

have a tiger by the tail and you cannot let go because he will eat you. Student Number One: It all sounds distasteful, but then, ...

falling apart (and all the drama that goes with that), losing interest in almost everything; as well as the intense energies tha ...

The Majesty of Self....................................................................... Even after one first awakens and even ...

was not at the center of my sense of being. I witnessed my ‘I-sense’, but it was distant and not me- pleasurable, but not me. Bu ...

superficial layers of consciousness: as a deep light inside, with a sense of fullness, completeness and joy. The surface flowing ...

body, known as the subtle body (which I call the “imaginal world”). Once again I knew what Robert experienced when he felt distr ...

Of Energies, Ecstasies and Orgasms.............................................. Many of the readers of my blog or Facebook have ...

Sometimes the energies flow intensely for days or weeks (or years) at a time. One becomes incapacitated. Feeling the bliss and o ...

pleasure, love and peace, to outrage, hate and destructive breaking. It is as if you had become two years old again. So, what do ...

You have become aware of a deeper part of yourself, a deeper level of consciousness, and this is good. The ecstasies and bliss m ...

as such, you move beyond a body-identification towards an identification with consciousness itself. However, the most difficult ...

presence, triples the benefits of just turning within and focusing on the ‘I Am’. It gives Self-abidance practice real juice, a ...

Also, the energies are exacerbated when you don’t eat or go on a fast. Do not fast in an attempt to enhance or decrease the ener ...