Beliefs, Delusions, and the Mind’s ability to Perpetuate its Own Experiences
I’m not going to approach this idea from the conventional standpoint of attempting to describe the nature of beliefs, how we form them out of our conditioning, and the psychological process necessary for changing them, because a great deal has already been written on this subject. What I’m going...
The Illusion of Thinking you can Wake other People Up
One of the main themes playing out in society right now, especially among the spiritually oriented communities, is that it’s somehow their job to try an ‘wake people up’. The first and most immediate question that arises from this idea is what do they mean by wake people up?...
Transforming Fear and Isolation into Compassion and Community
What I have come to realize in my lifetime is that all true change only seems to come through extreme situations. The greater the intensity of the situation the more pronounced the emotion it elicits in me, the greater my ability to transform myself and my way of thinking...
Understanding the Spiritual Power of Fear
Fear is one of the most powerful spiritual forces there are due to how it functions on the human psyche and within the mind-body relationship. While fear comes instinctively as the means of warning us of an actual danger and immediate threat, allowing us time to prepare or by...
Defining Reality – Objective, Subjective, and the Nature of Illusion
There tends to be a constant form of confusion around the idea of what we call “reality†because it’s produced as a mental construct that’s of both an objective and subjective nature. In the objective sense reality exists as what we call the “natural world” which is comprised of...
Humility, Shedding the False Ego, and the True Path of Liberation
There always seems to be a strange kind of reality around ideas that exist as a form of paradox that breeds constant illusions as misunderstandings produced through incorrect interpretations. What’s commonly referred to as ‘shedding our ego’, or experiences that come as the ‘death’ of the ego, can seem...
Meditation, Self-Realization, and Transcending the Illusion of Reality
While many people approach the idea of meditation as a method of some kind that’s designed to produce a predictable effect, and believe there are only certain ways to “truly meditateâ€, the fact may be that it’s a process through which we train our mind to step outside of...
Self-Mastery: How to Master your Emotions and the Delusions they Create
Very few things have a greater impact on our life and cause us to traverse the extremes of pain and joy more than emotions. Yet at the very same time, very few things are harder to truly manage and bring under the control of our will. This is because...
The Nature of Personal Illusions and the Minds Ability to Shape Reality
Our Mind is always Generating our Personal Reality . . . . While many people have heard of the spiritual concept of Maya, or the mind’s ability to make up false realities that it then “lives out of†as though they’re real, we tend to think that this idea...