How do you help a loved one who is in a cult?
More and more people are being affected by the online personal-spiritual development cults. How do you know they are in a cult? It’s easy to tell: their
More and more people are being affected by the online personal-spiritual development cults. How do you know they are in a cult? It’s easy to tell: their
What if it just wasn’t that woo? What if it wasn’t that quixotic? What if it wasn’t even that esoteric? What if some things are just at
Are you doing the spiritual equivalent of scrubbing a basketball court with a toothbrush?
In ye olden dayes, most organised awakening was through the ‘progressive’ path. That
Kind of a follow up to “What’s the Point of Life?” One point was experience. And, just like travelling, the ‘point’ of experience is to experience something
I still have a secret preference for “there is no point”. Which holds true at an ultimate level – the level at which there is no person
We all (well, most all) know that the worth of a person is not in what they achieve. When we’re faced with the big stuff, we know
You’ve probably heard of the classic Greek agape, eros and philia? Well, this isn’t that. Most people love with their heads, not their heart or their gut.
The world is turning, apparently. Unless you believe it’s flat. Anyways, I’m being nudged into changing what I’m offering. All my one-off individual calls are moving to
There’s a moment most savvy marketers ask for video testimonials – and that’s right near the end of an event, when everyone is full of the lovey
A lot of the time, I just don’t know. I don’t have the answers. I do have a lot of questions. I don’t know how to solve
Early on in my exploration of this field, there was something in the teaching which accidentally created a sese of three in me. There was Self-with-a-capital-S, who
There are three basic ways awakening shows up. It’s sort of a linear progression, sort of a circle, sort of a venn diagram, sort of a spiral,
It might not be a popular opinion to express in spiritual circles, but I’m a big fan of judgment. In fact, it receives a fair amount of…judgment!
Have you seen this, or experienced it? It’s my special phrase for when there’s a metaphorical thorn in someone’s foot. And they are suffering in that experience.
Sometimes, I’m speechless. There are three main reasons for this: One:My inner world is one of cognisance and sensation. Which is superlatively relaxing for someone with total
“I don’t need your support,” said a client recently. And I couldn’t agree more. They, and you don’t need a coach. You don’t need to become anything
Being fooled does not make you a fool. Reflect back on some time you were fooled by a prank, or tapped a stranger on the shoulder thinking
One feeling people sometimes express in a nondual exploration is a particular experiment or aspect of teaching doesn’t “land” or they don’t “get”. We often hear that
The nondual teaching is like a painted sign on a clear glass door that from the outside says, “Bizarrely complex, hard to understand, bit woo, maybe not
In any personal-spiritual development group, there is always someone at the front of the room. But how they show up in the role varies dramatically. Here are
We so often buy into a dream. Into an ideal.
We buy into how we think things could be, should be, ought to be.
Buying
Awakening isn’t fancy. It’s a basic as existence itself. It is no more an no less than self-realisation. And it allows enlightenment to become part of life’s
Leaving a cult, cult-like group, MLM, or controlling relationship of any kind ain’t easy. It’s not just seeing through to the reality of the behaviours and their
Our paradigm is how we see all of life – a worldview, if you like. When it shifts, it’s like being turned upside down and shaken.
The downside of the language of “path” is that it can seduce us into believing there is an ultimate goal that is distant from us, and we
The world is turning, apparently. Unless you believe it’s flat. Anyways, I’m being nudged into changing what I’m offering. All my one-off individual calls are moving to
At a time when many are pondering New Year’s resolutions, it’s worth looking at what ‘resolution’ means.
Once upon a time, in a land far away, a wise man and a foolish man sat in the marketplace.
As a writer you owe it to yourself not to get stuck into a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
Hilary Mantel