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
Understanding the difference between longing and desire 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 unknown and comes …
The Characteristics of Mysticism & Unitive 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 …
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 …