Occupation: Writer Birth: January 31, 1949
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of….
It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between the two. It seems that only when th….
Saving the biosphere depends first and foremost on human beings reaching mutual understanding and unforced agreement as to common ends. And that inte….
Rather, Spirit, and enlightement, has to be something that you are fully aware of right now. Something you are already looking at right now... We are….
Art. Its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated. But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one ha….
Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it w….
Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the fo….
The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be seen. With the eye of c….
Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?.
The Realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: There is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wond….
The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego its….
Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we can no mor….
Religion is just coded spirituality..
Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Nei….
The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-r….
For what we don't realize today is just what the typical self of every previous stage failed likewise to comprehend: this is not the highest and grea….
My opinion is that we have, in the person of Da Free John, a Spiritual Master and religious genius of the ultimate degree. I assure you I do not mean….
The basic idea of integral transformative practice (ITP) is simple: the more aspects of our being that we simultaneously exercise, the more likely th….
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped..
The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature..
"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then….