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The end of spirituality 18 Jan 2012 | 08:56 am
There is only one thing that holds all the world’s spiritual ideas in common, the fact that they are known by human beings. All the billions of relationships with God, a higher power, or a higher self...
What’s really behind the “global consciousness shift” 14 Jan 2012 | 05:06 pm
The roots of the idea of a ubiquitously-experienced shift in human consciousness extend to at least the late 19th century and the birth of European theosophy. Marilyn Ferguson’s The Aquarian Conspirac...
Cognition and nondual consciousness 8 Jan 2012 | 08:51 am
Our nondual identity is the one we are right now. However, unless we have already seen that this is true, we’re probably chasing a spiritual Xanadu or lonely outpost in emptiness. Why? What’s the barr...
Containers, changes, and nondual consciousness 22 Nov 2011 | 05:21 pm
The container metaphor is one of the central notions out of which our individual identity is constructed. The idea is simply that we have a body with an inside, outside, top, bottom, front, and back. ...
Making the mountain an inner forest may ease your way 3 Apr 2011 | 07:34 am
“[We're] already in the state of awakening; we just have to discover that.” ~Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche I’ve found there to be two main schools of thought which attempt to describe the realization of n...
Inattentional blindness and nondual occlusion 31 Mar 2010 | 04:18 pm
Today I experienced a spectacular instance of inattentional blindness. Driving to the home supply store, I took a different route than my usual. I was picturing that the road I was on would be just so...
The downer trope of “higher” consciousness 18 Nov 2009 | 04:47 pm
An aspirational spirit is one of the greatest gifts of human life, but when the aspiration is for “higher” consciousness, we couldn’t employ a poorer term to describe it. The higher=better metaphor fo...
The fantasy known as “no ego” 6 Nov 2009 | 08:51 pm
Referencing the map for a moment, we can see that the entire constellation of ideas I’m calling the folk theory of enlightenment find their center of gravity in the notion of “no ego.” There are milli...
Dead gurus rule the FToE 1 Nov 2009 | 02:05 pm
As far as gurus are concerned, there are a whole lot more dead ones than living. But ashes on the Ganges or in a grave somewhere else, dead gurus project great power into the present nonduality spirit...
Deployment of the FToE 31 Oct 2009 | 12:10 pm
I’m convinced that the mere suggestion of what it would be like to be God, everything or nothing is the standing wave of the FToE in global culture. This wave has produced ripples in the form of mysti...
