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 meditate, the fact may be that it’s a process through which we train our mind to step outside of...
Understanding the Nature of Emotions and How We Create Reality Out of Unconscious States
We can gain a clear understanding of the nature of emotions and how they work in our life to control us by simply observing what happens when we experience an emotional charge and have a reaction as a result. Emotions are the natural forces of the material world that...
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 Art of Detachment – Freedom from Illusions, Transcendence, and the True Nature of Compassion
The idea of what it means to detach from something can seem confusing because, like most ideas, it has both positive and negative connotations, based on how it’s being looked at, applied, or done, or how it comes about naturally. In all forms of spiritual development, detachment from the...
Projection is an Absolute Science – “Unveiling Hidden Aspects of the Subconscious Mind”
The idea of projection can be difficult to understand in the practical sense because most of us have no real awareness of our own subconscious mind, and the true nature of denial and emotional suppression. As a general rule we naturally tend to perceive ourselves as being separate and...
