“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, …
The Wheel of Time…
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 …
Evolutionary Love & the Evolution of Love
“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 …
“Face-to-face awareness with now-naked life..”
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 …
Creative Union
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 marvellous rich world of contact and sheer fluid beauty and fearless face-to-face awareness of …
“Tied together in the single garment of destiny” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you …
My sweet crushed angel
For all of us, who, with sincere and imperfect hearts, relentlessly throw ourselves on God’s doorstep – for one more dance… My Sweet, Crushed Angel by Hafiz You have not danced so badly, my dear, Trying to hold hands with the Beautiful One. You have waltzed with great style, My sweet, crushed angel, To have ever neared God’s Heart at …
Our need to give ourselves deeply…
As human beings, our default setting is to be focused on ourselves, what we want, what we think, what captures our interest, what we are pushing away, creating for ourselves, etc. Even when we are focused on other human beings it’s in a self-referential way – how they relate to us, our needs, experiences and interests. In the work we …