Life Lessons, Thematic Patterns, and Character Development
While I can certainly appreciate the idea that life is a school where we learn lessons formed through our own unconscious conditioning, I want to go a bit deeper into this idea and examine its essence and what “life lessons” actually are, and how we facilitate them in a...
The Great Awakening and the Grand Illusion
The idea of a great awakening, which is where humanity as a whole begins waking up to what’s really going on, is waking up from the collective dream, which is a form of hypnotic trance. As a general rule, and there are no exceptions to this rule because it’s...
Examining the Nature of Evil
The idea of “evil”, like so many ideas that are formed through an interpretation, has become greatly distorted and exaggerated through hype and superstition. This world (experience of reality) is referred to in spiritual texts as the world where we attain knowledge of good and evil, and while we...
My First Out-of-Body Experience
My first out-of-body experience came in a completely spontaneous manner and caught me by surprise. I was fairly young at the time and didn’t know anything about astral projection or shamanic practices, and I had never read about methods of how to do it, and didn’t have anyone explain...
How We Experience a World of Our Own Making
One of the most difficult things there are to truly grasp in terms of a firm realization, is that each one of us, no exception, is always perceiving and experiencing a world of our own making. Many contemplate this idea in a superficial way as a concept or theory...
The Dark Night of the Soul – Personal Crisis and the Process of Transformation
What has come to be called the dark night of the soul, occurs naturally through a life altering personal crisis of some kind that seems to abruptly rip away the very foundation we built our life out of, where we suddenly realize it was all a delusion of our...
How Science Becomes an Art – Integrating Knowledge Through Daily Practice
The only way we attain knowledge and become truly knowledgeable, is by developing ideas to the point where they can be brought into practice somehow in our daily life. We become the vehicle through which knowledge expresses in the world by becoming one with it, and as a result...
Skills in Self-Mastery – Learning to Control Your Emotions
Working with the Motivating Force of the Material Plane The most basic form of self-mastery comes in learning how to control and consciously generate your own emotions. In order to fully understand emotions and their intimate connection to experience, we have to look at life from the multidimensional level...
Mastering Communication – How Communication Works
When most of us think of communication, we think of words spoken or how we explain, describe, or express an idea so that it can be understood by whomever it is we’re communicating with. And while this is certainly one form of communication that’s undertaken in the most common...