My Wish for the Sufferer
I feel compelled to start this post with yet another giant disclaimer: this blog is a confessional not meant to teach anyone anything. As the saying goes, all minds, including the one behind these words, make for wonderful servants but terrible masters. In other words, the mind can't know anything of real value. Two plus [...]
Let’s Get Naked
Think I've shared this before, but in my early teens I kind of got swept up in stories about near-death experiences, about how all over the world and cultures and across history these NDEs have largely shared many of the same traits. And about how various studies have confirmed these patients were indeed dead - [...]
What I See, Today
So here's what I can tell you about the spiritual journey in the event you're one of those types who mostly pays lip service to it or barely dips a toe in and might be wondering what some ordinary, every day schmuck like me sees in it. It'll drive you half mad because you're already [...]
Silence
I wrote a lengthy, thoughtful, deeply meaningful post on the sages' call to silence - how only in silence can our true nature be discovered, God revealed, peace attained. I clicked 'Save' and the server gave me an error. Followed by a blank screen, all those well-intentioned words obliterated. And there are those who do [...]
Time for a U-Turn
I'm starting to think the so-called midlife crisis - along with the habit of older folks to become increasingly conservative and crotchety with age - has more to do with a general sense of resignation than advancing age. At some point, we reach an age where we've been around the block enough times to know that all the [...]
Happy Birthday to a Friend
It is said that life gives us what we need, not what we want. I like it that way, because, frankly, I don't know nearly enough to be put in charge of so great a responsibility. I'd just make a mess of things. Letting go and letting life deliver is of course easier said than [...]
Helping Our Anxious, Depressed Kids
Studies and polls tell us a huge percentage of kids are anxious, depressed, or just downright miserable - that millions struggle just to make it through the day. The adult world's answer to managing these gaping psychic wounds? To apply more of the same cultural and parental teachings that are creating the mess in the first place. A [...]
Don’t Envy the Confident
If there's one particularly difficult barrier to knowing our true nature, it's the hard-coded belief that we already know the answer to the question. No need to look, already have a pretty good feel for who I am, but thanks anyway. We envy those who are said to be "comfortable in their own skin," who are [...]
Awakening to the Dream
Not so long ago, walking the dog along a wooded path on a cool foggy morning, deep in contemplation, quietly asking god for help in seeing the truth, came the thunderstruck realization that my entreaties to god were, in fact, god calling out to itself. For the briefest of moments, the idea of a me [...]
A Story
In the beginning a story was told and retold until, eventually, I was born. Over the years I felt increasingly unhappy with its story. It had had no say in it, and frankly, one of the story's principal authors had told a rather grim and miserable story about I being a failure in every way [...]
My Wish for the Sufferer
I feel compelled to start this post with yet another giant disclaimer: this blog is a confessional not meant to teach anyone anything. As the saying goes, all minds, including the one behind these words, make for wonderful servants but terrible masters. In other words, the mind can't know anything of real value. Two plus [...]
Let’s Get Naked
Think I've shared this before, but in my early teens I kind of got swept up in stories about near-death experiences, about how all over the world and cultures and across history these NDEs have largely shared many of the same traits. And about how various studies have confirmed these patients were indeed dead - [...]
What I See, Today
So here's what I can tell you about the spiritual journey in the event you're one of those types who mostly pays lip service to it or barely dips a toe in and might be wondering what some ordinary, every day schmuck like me sees in it. It'll drive you half mad because you're already [...]
Silence
I wrote a lengthy, thoughtful, deeply meaningful post on the sages' call to silence - how only in silence can our true nature be discovered, God revealed, peace attained. I clicked 'Save' and the server gave me an error. Followed by a blank screen, all those well-intentioned words obliterated. And there are those who do [...]
Time for a U-Turn
I'm starting to think the so-called midlife crisis - along with the habit of older folks to become increasingly conservative and crotchety with age - has more to do with a general sense of resignation than advancing age. At some point, we reach an age where we've been around the block enough times to know that all the [...]
Happy Birthday to a Friend
It is said that life gives us what we need, not what we want. I like it that way, because, frankly, I don't know nearly enough to be put in charge of so great a responsibility. I'd just make a mess of things. Letting go and letting life deliver is of course easier said than [...]
Helping Our Anxious, Depressed Kids
Studies and polls tell us a huge percentage of kids are anxious, depressed, or just downright miserable - that millions struggle just to make it through the day. The adult world's answer to managing these gaping psychic wounds? To apply more of the same cultural and parental teachings that are creating the mess in the first place. A [...]
Don’t Envy the Confident
If there's one particularly difficult barrier to knowing our true nature, it's the hard-coded belief that we already know the answer to the question. No need to look, already have a pretty good feel for who I am, but thanks anyway. We envy those who are said to be "comfortable in their own skin," who are [...]
Awakening to the Dream
Not so long ago, walking the dog along a wooded path on a cool foggy morning, deep in contemplation, quietly asking god for help in seeing the truth, came the thunderstruck realization that my entreaties to god were, in fact, god calling out to itself. For the briefest of moments, the idea of a me [...]
A Story
In the beginning a story was told and retold until, eventually, I was born. Over the years I felt increasingly unhappy with its story. It had had no say in it, and frankly, one of the story's principal authors had told a rather grim and miserable story about I being a failure in every way [...]