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…

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…

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…

“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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…