The Flowering of Consciousness
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul. ~ Walt Whitman Awakening More and more people are beginning to awaken to themselves as they figure out the inherent emptiness of a life rooted in mainstream beliefs and practices. The experience of life […]
The Seduction of Safety
This phrase ‘the seduction of safety’ occurs in Mary Oliver’s poem The Journey and it suddenly struck me as identifying a significant problem for many of us. That problem is the belief that the world is a dangerous place, and it’s not safe to be here actually alive in a physical body. This belief informs the matrix of existence here on earth, almost universally. It gives rise to a culture of fear that supports notions of ‘security’ on an industrial scale. It might even be dangerous to read this article.
Smoke and Mirrors
I was sitting in a café with a friend the other day and we got around to talking about the collective unconscious. We didn’t dwell on it for long. Our general sense was that the collective is a prevailing miasma that’s not easy to cope with. It’s a bit like an energetic smog that chokes […]
This Heartbreaking World
I like to do crossword puzzles, I always have. There’s something about manipulating words and extracting obscured meanings that fascinates me. And just as I was wondering what this article needed to be about I came across a crossword clue that gave me the answer. The clue was the title above: This heartbreaking world (5). […]
The Edge of Reason
The Edge … there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. Hunter S. Thompson Few of us have any idea of where a personal journey of self-discovery will lead us, when we set out. Generally the first step […]
Walking in the Mind Field
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. – e. e. cummings Being yourself may well be the biggest challenge you will face in life. Not least because it involves discovering who you are first, and that’s no mean feat in itself. Do […]
Invisible Interactions
One of the things I realised when I started to understand myself as existing beyond my physical body is that my energy field interacts with the field of everything in my environment. It took me a bit longer to recognise that the energy field of my environment is a synthesis of everything in it, including […]