Enlightenment Now: Just Perception

I’ve been working with a new mentor who lives in Florida.  He’s teaching me to use what’s in front of me to notice awakeness.  When you stop thinking, what remains of you? It’s good practice to melt into your surroundings by stopping your...

Embodying Enlightenment: Deepening

When awakening first happened to ‘me’ I was able to focus on the Transcendent elements of the Divine, switch to the Immanent elements of the Divine, and then switch back and forth at will.  However, it seemed as if I was some sort of camera that had either a wide...

Enlightenment Now: Less Ego, More Love

This week, I’ll write about the transformation of the ability to love, and the continuing disintegration of the sense of a Personal Self today, as promised. At a certain point after awakening, once a lot of work has been done to ‘see through’ the...

Enlightenment: the Embodiment of Realization

When Awakening first happened, I considered it to be the end of a long spiritual search to know the truth of my own nature.  In the Mandukya Upanishad the Sanskrit phrase, transliterated as “Ayam Atman Brahman” brought me to the intellectual conclusion...

The Only War Worth Fighting

Ordinary people know that generally wars aren’t worth fighting.  The military industrial complex makes lots of money, and we lose fathers, brothers, mothers, sisters, friends, and children.  About 20% of those lucky enough to make it back alive will suffer with...