Between the inherited and conditioned structures of personality and the qualities of our essential Being, there is a rift of emptiness. This traumatic rift is sometimes referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul, or the Valley of the…
Between the inherited and conditioned structures of personality and the qualities of our essential Being, there is a rift of emptiness. This traumatic rift is sometimes referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul, or the Valley of the…
We live in a confusion of time, in which ‘reality’ increasingly makes nonsense of the rational mind. According to the American Psychological Association, stress levels are rising dramatically with each generation. On a scale of 1-10, the generation born…
Relaxation is a hot product in the dimension of 3rd millennium human. We watch violence and stress in movies to let the body relax. We create casts of twisted news stories of disaster, tragedy and perpetual condemnation and dictate them…
Once upon a time, and still now, having the right papers could make the difference between life and death. From the chaos of war through to the decrees of courts, the legitimacy of the paper work can impact status, finances,…
The above slides give a descriptive map of the structure of our spiritual psychology (Click on slide to see the complete image). The images should be viewed as representative of living form. The representation is given within the language of…
There is an interesting feature of the polarity of heaven and hell. While from the vantage point of heaven, we are able to contain hell (in a way that we can even feel the beauty in painful experiences), from the…
Even when hell freezes over, it is still here. We can numb ourselves to DREAD for a while, but sooner or later we will move through its precincts in processes of expansion and liberation. In a traumatic environment (in which natural…
The holiday period can be confronting. Obligated to ‘enjoy’ ourselves, we can find ourselves in a raw state of exactly the opposite. Family time can confront us with loneliness; revelry can bring forward the dark spaces beyond the reach of…
Here are 5 guidelines to generate compassion in these times, and in this, avoiding falling into the hell zone of pure dread.
“I don’t want to be here.” “I don’t belong here.” “Nobody cares.” “I have to do it alone.” “Someone wants to kill me.” “I’m not OK.” This is not the voice of the newly arrived refugee: it is the undercurrent of our own minds –…