Meditation can be one of our best tools for Awakening to non-dualism. The usual problem with meditation, however, is that it can very easily become a habitual attempt to calm the mind or achieve control. In short, it becomes a crutch that is based on our standard dualistic methods of making change – via effort. …
Today I learned an interesting fact from National Geographic. It’s a bit, um, bizarre, so you may not want to read beyond this point, but here it goes. We’re not ourselves. Well, to be a bit more accurate, we’re not human. Consider this. If we added up all the cells in your body, about 10% would …
The reason we can sometimes be termed ‘asleep’ (even when we’re wide awake) is that we tend to live by assumptions. And these assumptions act almost as a kind of hypnosis, so that we only see our assumptions, and no longer see the world as it really appears. For instance, answer this question: What Color …
We’re all in a dream. We take it for ‘reality’, and many of us never question it. But those who take a few moments, even once in their lifetime, to sit down and have a good look at this thing we call Life – those people will discover that something is slightly amiss. Something in …
It is a well-known fact that near the arctic and Antarctic poles, there are extended day/night cycles. Six months of each, if we’re high enough up there. The nights, of course, aren’t all that dark, however, since the moon is always full (because your vantage point is effectively on the ‘top’ or ‘bottom’ of the …
