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 …

DEMAND –  a forceful statement in which you say that something must be done or given to you; a strong need for something; something claimed as due;  a seeking or state of being sought after; urgent need CALLING FORTH – to call to someone to come out or come forward; to draw a particular quality or induce a particular behavior. Often when we think of love, what comes …

While I was a student of A.H. Almaas for 8 years, one of the teachings that caught my attention was his teaching on the wheel of time. It indicates that at certain times in history, spirituality emerges to respond to what is needed at a particular time.  We are living in one of those times. A new kind of consciousness …

“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 …

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 …

Groups of people have collective identities, and the identities of the groups that we are a part of have a profound effect over us. There is a new emergent possibility of ‘InterBeing’ and how the field of relatedness can become a living organism of shared communion. Being on the edge – arrow of evolution – is powerful and empowering even …

As many of us move into our American tradition of Thanksgiving, even in these strange times that allow most of us to join together with our families, 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 …

“There’s not enough unconditional love in the universe to heal the level of pain created from being separate. The love we need is being given through evolutionary love – what I call spondic love.” – Patricia Albere Have you ever considered that love itself is evolving? At a recent event, I spoke about the evolution of love and then pointed …

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 and his own mechanical devices there is a marvelous rich world of contact and sheer fluid beauty and fearless face-to-face awareness of …