I’ve noticed that many people have come to me for help over the years but, if I look at who has been helped, it’s the people who commit to the process of either psychological healing or spiritual awakening. For some reason, commitment seems to be ‘out of fashion’ now....
QUESTIONS ON THE “PATH” #3: In your decades of practice, what is the most commonly expressed challenge/blockage/attachment/issue you’ve come across? What is the answer you provide? Answer #3 Fear is the biggest challenge or blockage that I’ve come across...
by Jonathan Labman | Oct 9, 2022 QUESTIONS ON THE “PATH” is a new, regular series (at least once per month), examining the questions students bring me about spiritual awakening, and my response based on my own studies and experiences. If you’d like to ask a question...
QUESTIONS ON THE “PATH” is a new, regular series (at least once per month, maybe as often as weekly), examining the questions students bring me about spiritual awakening, and my response based on my own studies and experiences. If you’d like to ask a...
Many people struggle with the idea of being “done.” “I just want to be done” is something I’ve heard, thought, and said repeatedly in my life, saying it as recently as last Tuesday! In psychological or spiritual terms, done could be seen as “fully integrated,” having...
I took my own advice of not staying too busy this Winter (in the last blogpost of 12/5/21); so I’m just returning to writing newsletters for 2022 with this one. The Enlightenment practice of “living in the moment” can be a challenge to the mind: what if there’s...
Do you wonder what good love is in your life? Particularly when someone has broken your heart? (Are you old enough to remember the Tina Turner song?) From my perspective, love is EVERYTHING. I was recently infected with Covid-19 and spent 2.5 weeks being REALLY sick....
I grew up in the prosperous 1950s and 1960s in a middle-class U.S. family. I was abused at home and bullied at school. I started looking for answers when I was 15 and started exploring psychotherapy and spirituality. In what I still see as a kind of miracle, I won a...
What are your enslavement patterns? “What do you mean,” you’re thinking, “I’m a free person!” Are you really free, though? Are you free to be fully and spontaneously yourself in each moment, dreaming your life into existence one action at a time? I’m betting that...
An Easy Guide to the ‘Flow State.’ Have you ‘had it’ with broken promises of a better life? Had enough of long-term psychological and spiritual paths? Learn your stuff and SPREAD YOUR WINGS! That’s my approach: no nonsense. I won’t name names, but SOME teachers feel...
