There are more than 9,000 published articles on this site, written over about two decades. (In addition to four thousand unpublished articles.)
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INTRODUCTORY ARTICLES
The following articles can serve as an introduction to some of the central themes here.
The practice I mostly use these days: Befriend & Awaken: The essence of many healing and awakening traditions
A brief story of the initial awakening shift in my life: Why the spontaneous awakening shift?
Something about our nature: Talking about the inevitability of what we are | What are we in our own first-person experience? | Why do many scientists and psychologists ignore our nature?
Small and big interpretation of awakening: Why don’t awakening teachers more often differentiate between small and big interpretations of awakening?
A few words on basic meditation: Basic meditation: Notice and allow what’s here, and notice it’s already noticed and allowed | Failing in basic meditation and finding what’s already here
A brief autobiography: A brief personal history
Dialog: Dialog with someone who has lived innumerable lives in many places in the cosmos | Dialog with one who has lived eons and has a mystic streak
CHRONOLOGICAL SELECTION OF ARTICLES
Psychology 101: My culture is inside me
In addition to articles tagged as essential articles, have selected a few recent ones here:
States highlight features of who and what we are
An example of dream telepathy (?)
The universality of consciousness
What’s the relationship between the divine and the human?
The overview effect & Big Mind
Anything we can name is not what we (most fundamentally) are
Weeding the garden: Supporting the natural self-healing processes of the mind
A rich and simple life: going to evolution for clues
Idealism, realism, our economic system and ecological reality
Byron Katie: “I don’t know” is a lot of freedom
Is it possible to directly perceive change?
Impermanence – good to remember, the great cleanser, happening here and now & pointing to our nature
The world doesn’t fit categories
When something I don’t like happens, what stories do I tell myself about it?
Visualize the other as healed, whole, wise, and kind, and have a dialog
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Form is emptiness, emptiness is form
What releases us from the reincarnation cycle?
Does all time happen now? Yes, to us it does
Does explaining through psychology remove the mystery and magic from life?
Waking up parts of our psyche: Become & wake up
Finding healing for our relationship with a wound vs finding healing for the wound itself
Exploring identities and finding what we more fundamentally are
Life 101: different kinds of validity in different views
Understanding awakening in an atheist and materialistic context
The relationship between who and what we are (our human self & consciousness)
Life 101: Playing roles in life
Failing in basic meditation and finding what’s already here
Why do many scientists and psychologists ignore our nature?
Why do I love animals? Why do I love nature?
Nicolette Sowder: May we raise children who love the unloved things
The logic of what we are (awakening)
John Seed: I am part of the rainforest protecting myself
Rewilding: Nature protecting itself
Holding onto overly simplistic views for safety
Clarifying motivation & differentiate needs and strategies
Priorities & our ecological crisis
Why I rarely talk about unconditional love
Finding an easier way: chronic illness as a guide
Our human identity is not wrong, it’s just incomplete
Simone Weil: There are two atheisms of which one is the purification of the notion of God
Our brains and this world are not made to make us happy
Spiritual stories vs what’s here in immediacy
May your inner voice be the kindest voice you know
“I don’t know” is the only true statement?
Teenage experience: the shift from simplified duality to oneness
What does “oneness” mean? Some examples of different forms of oneness
The universality of my experience
Worldviews and how we experience distance energy healing
Center of gravity shifting from separation to oneness
“It’s so easy to be tricked by our senses”
“I look at a tree, and divinity is looking back at me”
A few of my favorite music albums
Am I dreaming or awake, right now?
Why do we love our land? An evolutionary perspective on landscape
The more you know, the more you know how little you know
The multiverse of sanity: Healing through alternate realities
Spirituality as indulging in fantasy vs exploring reality
Does our timeless nature mean we live forever?
The dreamlike quality of reality
“I am picking up feelings that aren’t mine”
Taking refuge in a story to make ourselves feel better
– When I am with you, I feel I am out here (pointing to the area outside of the body)
Is being reactive and angry the same as being authentic and unfiltered?
Being stuck in the absolute is not very helpful
Amplify and release: actively welcoming the experience we fear
Our ecological bottleneck and personal decisions
Waking up issues, parts, and subpersonalities
Awakening comes from and is a kind of maturity
The essence of the dark night: Viscerally getting any experience as the divine
Awakening doesn’t change our life?
Byron Katie: When you walk in a dream and know it’s a dream, that’s love
When we don’t know how little we know
Perception of causality when I notice my nature
Themes of awakening in my own process
Themes in an awakening process
Stage models, reality, and when the sequences are jumbled
Perception of capacity and consciousness when I notice my nature
Dune and fascination with saviors
Several onenesses and one oneness
Nondual but dismissing the human?
Adapting to our more real identity vs attaching to a familiar mistaken one
Voting on behalf of non-human species
The experience of my human self when I notice my nature
Phases in an awakening process
My nature is all I know and all I have ever known
“I don’t know anything for certain”
Perception of the physical when we notice our nature
Perception of doership when we notice our nature
Perception of time when we notice our nature
Perception of movement when we notice our nature
Perception of distance when we notice our nature
This human self is connected with my world in a special way
Our nature: From conceptual understanding to noticing to finding ourselves as it, and living from it
Some aspects of what I am: Capacity, oneness, human self, etc.
The logic of awakening & the inevitability of what we are and how it plays itself out
Grounding speculations in what’s here and now
Noticing our nature vs our nature noticing itself
Why I am drawn to a psychological interpretation of awakening
Would it hold up in a court of law?
Some aspects of what we are – oneness, love, bliss, capacity, and so on
This human self is happening on its own
Exploring the world like a dream
Out-of-body experience as a child
When awakening shifts happen without preparation: some upsides and downsides
What are we in our own first-person experience?
The body as capacity, space, and consciousness
Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) – a brief overview
Befriend & Awaken: The essence of many healing and awakening traditions
Wolfwalkers & our relationship with the wild in nature and ourselves
The loops of consciousness creating a sense of separation within oneness
We cannot escape the dream, but we can learn to recognize and find appreciation for it
We are something, nothing, everything, and between nothing and something
The different types of validity in different stories
What is omniscient and omnipresent? Turning the story around and see what we find
Basic meditation: Notice and allow what’s here, and notice it’s already noticed and allowed
How do we know what’s true? (part one)
What awakens? What holds a belief?
Awakening described in five levels of difficulty
Byron Katie: What’s called bliss and what’s called ordinary mind are equal
Why is (what we discover through) awakening difficult to put into words?
“I am picking up feelings that aren’t mine”
This human self is happening on its own
Why do we tend to be identified with the head area?
Two of us – perceiving ourselves as observer and observed
The transformations of awakening
There is an inner desert into which each one of us must one day go
A few quotes from Ramana Maharshi
Finding what seems most as an I or me
Why do we find nature beautiful?
Demystifying and pointing out the mystery as needed
The no-thing that allows all things
Happy because he doesn’t have thoughts saying blindness and cancer is wrong
Phases in the awakening process, and maturing in spirituality
Adyashanti: There is only watching and/or observing
Why don’t awakening teachers differentiate between small and big interpretations of awakening?
Everything & nothing comes from somewhere else
“I am picking up emotions that aren’t mine!”
The same principles used in magic tricks apply to how we unawake ourselves
Meister Eckhart: We are all meant to be mothers of God
Jung: The God I experienced is more than love, he is also hate
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Jesus comes in the form of the beggar
Fascinated by mysteries in the world, and the mystery of existence
What we are to ourselves vs what reality is
Who or what is unawake? Or has emotional issues?
Waking up issues: medicines for a condition
Ground of being as other vs what we are
As what I am, all is subject and object
From the point of view of our system, knowing and not doing is the same as not knowing
Notice what seems the least like my nature
Awakening & reversals: figure-ground and subject-object reversals
Tracing to what’s more essential
We are familiar with what we are, we just may not recognize it *as* what we are (awakening)
Befriending life… through befriending our contractions
More pervasive emotional issues tend to be felt all over the body
Objectifying ourselves and others
Enlightenment is a destructive process
If investigated, ordinary insights can lead us to notice what we are
How it works: Basic meditation
Own dialog: The inner victim & victimizer
Lao Tzu: kindhearted as a grandmother
Talking about awakening: a more sober and grounded approach
Our mental activity is a kind of dream
Adyashanti: All ideas of what should or shouldn’t have happened are just dreams
Adyashanti: Experiencing many dimensions of being allows you to be more fluid
Thoughts as an evolutionary experiment
Is awakening inherently better than not being awake?
Two forms of completely ordinary insanity
If I don’t love something, what am I actually not loving?
How spiritual practices become ongoing
A tantric approach to spirituality
When realization appears as philosophizing
Spiritual pointers & practices are medicine for specific conditions
The importance of love: From relationships to finding ourselves as love
What we find in awakening is already familiar
Spiritual practices mimic awakening
Awakening is not incompatible with “ego” dynamics
The value in a memory of awakening
Underestimating & overestimating awakening
What does awakening feel like?
A relatively simple and pragmatic view on awakening
Some ways to look at reincarnation
How we interpret the behavior of others
What does the Buddhist emptiness mean?
Projections and how I (Imagine I) know others & the world
Projections and the larger context
Talking about the inevitability of what we are
How does God speak to us through nature?
Tools for emotional emergencies
Recovering from Covid 19: post-viral fatigue pointers from someone with CFS
My own story: before and after awakening and the awakening itself
The essence of spirituality doesn’t require anything esoteric
The banality of evil and our ecological crisis
Only Lovers Left Alive: a dialog with someone who has lived for centuries
Dialog with someone who has lived innumerable lives in many places in the cosmos
ARTICLES ON SELECTED TOPICS
[in progress]
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Why the spontaneous awakening shift?
AWAKENING
ONENESS / SEPARATION
The loops of consciousness creating a sense of separation within oneness
WHO & WHAT WE ARE
SMALL AND BIG INTERPRETATIONS OF AWAKENING
DARK NIGHTS
AWAKENING MISCONCEPTIONS / SPIRITUAL FANTASIES
BEFRIEND & AWAKEN
Befriend & Awaken: The essence of many healing and awakening traditions
BASIC MEDITATION
Basic meditation: Notice and allow what’s here, and notice it’s already noticed and allowed
INQUIRY
HEART-CENTERED PRACTICES
HEALTH
TENSION & TRAUMA RELEASE EXERCISES
Tension & Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) – a brief overview
SOCIETY / CONSPIRACY THEORIES
SCIENCE / BIAS / TRUTH
PSYCHOLOGY / EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY
ECOPSYCHOLOGY / ECOSPIRITUALITY / UNIVERSE STORY
Wolfwalkers & our relationship with the wild in nature and ourselves
LIFE / PSYCHOLOGY 101
DIALOG
Only Lovers Left Alive: a dialog with someone who has lived for centuries
Dialog with someone who has lived innumerable lives in many places in the cosmos
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