There’s something within you that knows what to do. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.

Robert Adams

There’s something within you that knows what to do. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.

Robert Adams

Perennial way teachers

TEACHERS

A collection of books, teachers, and audio and video recordings that align nicely with the perennial wisdom.

Perennial way resources library

RESOURCES

A growing list of books, recordings (and eventually, events) dedicated to the perennial wisdom.

Beware of the doug blog

POSTS

Content focused on perennial wisdom teachings and the inner growth that comes with them.

Living the Perennial Way

Personal posts which, to one degree or another, tie into the Perennial Way. It’s my way of demonstrating the myriad ways these teachings open something inside those of us immerse ourselves in their wisdom. My personal blog can be found at Beware of the Doug.

  • Published On: October 16, 2025Categories: Self-Inquiry

    In the beginning was the word. Since then many, many more. The world drowns in words, a reflection of our increasingly cacophonous inner worlds. Words, words, words. How many spoken, shared, loved, fought over? More words than atoms in the universe maybe? [...]

  • Journaling
    Published On: September 18, 2024Categories: Self-Inquiry

    Searching for peace, happiness, truth, God, meaning, I spent years exploring a variety of religious, spiritual, metaphysical, and alternative teachings. One by one, however, each failed me due to their various inventor-inspired rites, rituals, teachers, and related orthodoxies. Note here the inventor [...]

  • Materiality vs spirituality
    Published On: September 18, 2024Categories: Science

    Spirituality is often dismissed as the domain of fantasists, the reasoning being that if one can't touch, smell, hear, taste, see or think it, it's of no tangible benefit to those occupied by the 'real world.' Yet what most of our species [...]

  • Sea of Mind
    Published On: September 4, 2024Categories: Self-Inquiry

    Because we spend our lives driven by thought, it can be terribly difficult for even the tiniest snippet of Truth to edge its way into our consciousness. Without such Truths, the inner journey lacks legs. I've always suspected this is in part [...]

Perennial way teachers

Various teachers behind the perennial wisdom teachings.

Perennial way resources library

Books and recordings dedicated to the perennial wisdom.

Beware of the doug blog

Personal ruminations on the perennial way wisdom teachings.

If I should arrive at the Mystic Truth, it will be as a result of divine assistance. If I fall short, human deficiency will be the cause.

Ibn Abbad al-Rundi, Sufi Poet

If I should arrive at the Mystic Truth, it will be as a result of divine assistance. If I fall short, human deficiency will be the cause.

Ibn Abbad al-Rundi, Sufi Poet

Teachers & Teachings

Teachers & Teachings

“Never forget what you’re looking for is what is doing the looking.”

– Wei Wu Wei –

Never forget what you’re looking for is what is doing the looking.

– Wei Wu Wei –

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