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Death and Dying: Losing a Partner
Sitting next to someone who is dying, is for some people, the greatest challenge of their lives. You are not only watching your primary partner die but, you are reckoning with the death of your relationship with them, your identity as a husband or wife (which will be...
Creating a Spiritual Culture in Your Time and Place: a New Indigenousness
I’ve personally been in a difficult crossroads of life, trying to integrate spiritual life into the local time and place. My experience, for my whole life after the age of 16, has been to have no felt sense of belonging here in this world. There has been no felt...
Some Thoughts on the Nature of the Soul
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how to summarize what I’ve learned about what the human soul is. One of my sources is the Mandukya Upanishad and the individual sentence “Ayam Atman Brahman” which is translated as “This individual consciousness is (the same as) the...
Before Enlightenment I Attended to Fussy Little Details….After Enlightenment I Attended to Fussy Little Details
Another of the many myths of Enlightenment, is that somehow the body-mind lives in a state of constant flow after Awareness Awakens to Itself, and life is without: challenges, effort, and obstruction. While this may be true on some days, like weekends without any...Alone or All One
Alone or All One It occurred to me today that when we human beings speak about feeling or being alone, what we mean is that our ego-minds are isolated within ourselves and they end up chattering to themselves. No one else hears the contents of our minds, except us,...
Integration after Awakening: Deconstructing So-Called ‘Truths’
What happens to you when it dawns on you that what you are is more than your mind and its ideas of itself? When you discover the Awareness or Consciousness that you are, how does it change the way you live? Since thoughts aren’t the interpreters of reality, they will...Integration of Awareness and the Individual Life
Once we discover that Awareness is our True Nature (not some identity composed of thoughts that we call the ‘ego’), it can be quite an upset to our way of life. While the discovery that Awareness is who we are may take considerable time and energy, it is not the end...Awareness Is
Awareness Is The great joke about waking up is that there isn’t actually anyone to wake up and nothing for the mind or ego; and awakening or enlightenment is undefinable in verbal terms. Awareness awakens to Itself. Awareness is that which looks AND that which is...
Radiant, Clear, Still
These are three words that could be used to describe the Transcendent. Out walking the dog this morning, our normal ‘green tunnel’ of trees that meet overhead (now bare and brown in winter) had been transformed by an overnight snow storm. The sky was a radiant,...SUPPORT JONATHAN’S WRITING
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