Years ago, in the physical wilderness of anxiety and panic attacks, I remember lying down, desperately immobilized on the wooden floor boards of our house. I had pain to the sides of my chest and around my hips. On top…
Years ago, in the physical wilderness of anxiety and panic attacks, I remember lying down, desperately immobilized on the wooden floor boards of our house. I had pain to the sides of my chest and around my hips. On top…
Our genes form our personalities. But often, the rejection of the personality as ‘illusory’ is a repeat of an old formula of spiritual bypass and self abnegation. What does it take to awaken into spiritual freedom? Often the release of…
What if I’m adopted? Please help me understand. In several online venues, where the subject of generational trauma – trauma inherited from our parents and ancestors – has been discussed, the question has been raised: what about adoption? How should…
THE SPOKE & THE WHEEL As long as we believe in survival more than life, the wheel turns. As long as we believe disgust makes us pure, the wheel turns.
NEEDLE’S EYE When worlds gets small, give space. When persons fall, touch grace. Where hearts are broken, let light flood in. Where words aren’t spoken, let feeling sing.
The development of nondual psychology demands an inquiry into the phenomena of both spiritual emergency and spiritual bypass. In this article, we propose that Nonduality, while offering beautiful tools through which trauma can be alleviated, also risks accentuating the traumatic…
Formed by Trauma: The Power of the Repeated Message Georgi Y. Johnson and Bart ten Berge Sam, a seven year-old child is playing with his five brothers and sisters in the garden while his mother prepares food in the kitchen.…
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.” ― Elie Wiesel, Night Spiritual teachers come in many different forms and often they would not call themselves a spiritual teacher at all. They can be here as rock stars, outrageous comedians,…
“There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.” ~Chogyam Trungpa
Here you are, my enemy, my friend, again here, as you never left the strange, familiar cliff-edge of existing, with vision compelled into an abyss, that powerlessly, will dismiss both time and timeless, as if it never was and never…