As many of us move into our American tradition of Thanksgiving and gather with those we love, may we find our relationship with something greater and deeper. May we uncover the truth of our unity. Especially now, may we remind each other of our love and desire to have a world that works for everyone…. Happy Thanksgiving … With love …
Haven’t Got Time for the Pain…
The other day, a familiar ’70s song started playing. As I softly sang along, the lyrics stopped me mid-phrase: ’Cause I haven’t got time for the pain I haven’t got room for the pain I haven’t the need for the pain Not since I’ve known you… Something in those words pierced me differently this time. Everywhere we turn, the language …
Essential Uniqueness: The Key to Shared Unity
Have you ever watched a great artist perform, perhaps a musician or a dancer, and felt completely transfixed? It isn’t just their technical excellence, beauty, or precision that captivates you. There’s something else that holds your attention, some particular quality that is theirs alone. You could listen to a hundred violinists play the same piece of music, and each one …
Please, NOT ANOTHER THING…
Have you noticed a quiet disinterest in learning yet another technique, or in devoting more energy to the endless project we call “working on ourselves”? Something in us knows that more effort isn’t what’s needed now. Mutual Awakening and Shared Unity are not more teachings to take in or ideas to add to what you already know or who you …
Parrhesia: Truth to Power
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi I’ve always been an early riser naturally, without any alarm. It must be a deeply ingrained pattern from lifetimes of being either a monk, nun, baker, or farmer. Shortly after I wake up, I have developed a pattern of flipping on the news while …
Vast Realms of Consciousness Still Undreamed
For us… as we exist and grope as the livingness of evolution itself. There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of vast ranges of experience, like the humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us. Oh when man has escaped from the barbed-wire entanglement of his own ideas & his own mechanical devices there is a marvellous …
Liminal Consciousness: Threshold of Miracles
Recently, I found myself drawn to the word liminal to describe the practices and perspectives of the Evolutionary Collective. The word liminal comes from the Latin limen, meaning threshold. Anthropologists first used it to describe the transition phase of a ritual between the dissolution of a previous reality and the emergence of a new one. We are living in such …
Mutual Awakening on the Brain
In recent years, meditation and mindfulness practices have gained popularity in mainstream health and wellness culture. One of their most celebrated benefits is their ability to calm the mind and nervous system. Those meditative practices tend to slow the brain into theta waves (5–8 Hz), helping us relax and release reactivity to external stimuli. At the Evolutionary Collective, we engage …
The Hidden Power of Longing
When you understand the difference between longing and desire, it will change your life. Opening ourselves to longing activates powerful forces that will move our lives and life itself towards higher possibilities of love and evolution. Longing arises from a dimension that is deeper than your individual sense of self – deeper than your soul – it arises from the …
The Characteristics of Mysticism & WE-Mysticism
The classical understanding of a mystic is a person who has a direct experience of the sacred, unmediated by conventional religious rituals or intermediaries. Brittanica.com says, “Mystics believe that their experiences disclose the existence of an extrasensory dimension of reality: phenomena whose existence cannot be detected through sense perception.” While the classical mystic turns inward to touch the Divine, a …
ARE YOU A MYSTIC?
Having worked intimately with thousands of people, it is vividly clear to me that each person is profoundly unique and distinctly different in how spiritual awakening and expression arise for that particular person. Sometimes, we can (and do) waste enormous amounts of time trying to awaken in a path that may be ancient and revered, but innately has nothing to …
THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE
In 1966, when I was 14 years old, I found myself on the floor of my bedroom creating a large poster of a girl. It was a full-length silhouette. Her long dress and hair flowed behind her. Streaming forward through her eyes were swirling multicolored clouds. I wrote in the space under the clouds: THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE. It …
Evolutionary Belonging – Let’s Misfit Together…
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because …
Matrix Wisdom & Our Evolutionary Future
I recently revisited the original Matrix movie. Like the main character Neo, we can’t know the future right now, and it’s a bit scary to see what is ending. What matters is to find out how to begin – how to engage and participate in the evolutionary potentials that are possible for the future, instead of remaining inside the momentum …
Love As Demand
Often, when we think of love, what comes to mind is acceptance, caring, sweetness, warmth, forgiveness, generosity, and kindness. Most spiritual traditions and spiritual teachers have taught us the value of unconditional love – a love that doesn’t ask anything from the other, a love that is compassionate and embracing. We need to discover our capacity to love with this …