The Archetypal Nature of the Spirit, the Creative Power of the Soul and the Nature of the Self
One of the most fundamental errors we make in how we think about things comes when we start from the premise of duality and separation. Any hypothesis that’s based on a concept of separation while referring to our essential self or spiritual nature is an illusion in the most...
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...
Self-Empowerment – The Relationship Between Choice, Will, and Creation
This idea can seem confusing in terms of being able to actually employ it at the practical level because it involves different functions of different aspects of our own mind working in harmony with each other to produce the same outcome as an experience of reality. We have to...
Personal Existence and the Relationship Between the Subconscious and Self-Conscious Mind
What we refer to as our personal (bodily) existence comes through our ability to perceive ourselves as a “whole reality”, rather than a fragmented part of an even greater reality that exists independent of us. Our perception of reality is formed as a manifestation of the relationship between the...
How We Unknowingly Create the Reality of Our Beliefs as Personal Delusions
There’s an interesting thing about beliefs that make them hard to realize as not being true. Anything that we belief to be true, and therefore real, we create through our ability to see it in any situation. We see it not as an actual reality in and of itself,...
Learning How to Work with the Subtle Body
Working with what we refer to as the subtle body in an intelligent and effective way can be difficult in the most basic sense, because, like the mind that produces it, it’s invisible to the physical senses and operates according to complementary laws. The most fundamental universal law that...
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...
The Monad and the Law of One – Duality as a Singularity
The most basic mistake we make in life comes from an ingrained belief in duality as a fundamental form of separation. We imagine that the world exists as fragmented, independent parts that coexist while having no direct relation or influence on each other. This is largely due to the...
Learning how to Understand the Illusory Nature of Reality
Definition of reality: a thing that’s actually experienced or seen as a physical existence: A state or quality that exists or has substance. The idea of reality is one that has eluded many throughout history because we’ve been taught to think of it as a solid, fixed, objective, and...