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 …
The Heretical Call of the Future
HERETIC: someone whose ideas are in fundamental disagreement with the status quo A number of years ago, in Berkeley, I attended an event with a popular spiritual teacher who began his address to an eager, sophisticated crowd of spiritual practitioners by pointing to our need to intensify our ability to meditate and practice being deeply awake in the middle of …
Post-Ambivalence
In the Hierarchy of Human Needs: Maslow’s Model of Motivation – Abraham Maslow added to his model late in his life a 6th level called Self-Transcendence. His model is one of the many I have used to understand and illuminate the possibility of a higher order of human relatedness. Maslow beautifully describes how, as our needs are fulfilled on lower …
LONGING & HAVING EVOLUTIONARY FAITH
During a workshop titled Beyond Me to We: Activating Our Highest Potentials Through Mutual Awakening one of the topics we explored was the power of longing and having faith in evolution. I thought you might enjoy a part of that teaching and wanted to share it with you here… Opening yourself to longing activates powerful forces that will move your life …
HOW DO WE LET GO OF OUR STORY?
During a recent workshop titled Beyond Me to We: Activating Our Highest Potentials Through Mutual Awakening I shared about a new reality of shared unity and the practice we call Mutual Awakening that facilitates our access to it. I also took questions from those in attendance. One question came through the chat box that I think perfectly encapsulates a question …
Answering a Question No One is Asking
Some of you may be able to relate to this.. It’s the plight of visionaries, heretics, prophets, revolutionaries, scientists, artists and innovators exploring the creative edges of existence. Some of you, don’t identify with those labels, but never-the-less you feel the beat of a different drum, the call of something you can’t quite put your finger on. To varying degrees, …
[VIDEO TEACHING] There are things that are infinite. Working on yourself is not one of them.
There are things that are infinite. Working on yourself is not one of them. I’d love to share more with you about exploring the infinite worlds of what is possible between us, inside shared unity. You’re invited to join me on my free, live workshop: Beyond Me to We: Activating our Highest Potentials through Mutual Awakening Sunday, October 10th, …