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Ego Development
2008-03-29 14:23:00 Development of the Ego ? sounds like a constuction site project and in many ways it is. There are foundations, structures, images (facades) and much more that seem similar to a housing project ? and why not ? when all is said and done a person lives within that structure ? most are shut-ins, fearing ... More About: Google , Development , Google Search
How Easy is it to Be in the NOW?
2008-03-27 16:41:00 Source: WikipediaIn 1971 Ram Das entreated us to Be Here Now. It is currently in its 37th reprinting and has sold over one million copies. In 1999 Eckhart Tolle told us about the Power of Now. The Power of Now gained power from word-of-mouth, the New York Times ? Bestseller List and Oprah Winfrey ?s Book Club. The continuing ... More About: Easy , Perceptions
Google God for Guidance
2008-03-27 03:44:00 I?m still reading Your Soul?s Compass and came across a paragraph I just have to share ? Seeking spiritual guidance is often misunderstood as consulting a cosmic Dear Abby or a universal Google for advice on relationships, health, and illness, pathways to financial freedom, or even great car deals. While there?s guidance out there fabout everything ... More About: New Age
Fantasy vs. Imagination
2008-03-25 18:53:00 My friend Gordon, co-author of Your Soul?s Compass, was attending a workshop with Hameed Ali (A.H. Almaas) recently. According to Gordon, people were using the the words “fantasy” and “imagination” interchangeably. I commented that in fact these were opposite concepts. “Fantasy ” is a mental construct–a substitute for reality. Imagination , on the other hand, is ...
Ego Functions
2008-03-24 03:19:00 Is your ego functioning? What are ego?s functions? Do they serve you or entrap you? The granddaddy of psychology, Sigmund Freud, said the ego functioned to manage the instincts and defenses against them. According to Carl Jung, the four ways of interpreting reality are the four ego-functions - Sensation, Thinking, Feeling, and Intuition. These consist of ... More About: Functions
Inner Terrorist
2008-03-21 22:34:00 Are you being abused and violated by an Inner Terrorist ? Terrorism is a hot topic these days. I am constantly reminded as I walk through this world how many people live in fear. It is fairly common, or so it seems, that many people don?t know their neighbors ? and don?t want to. Many people seem afraid ...
Your Soul?s Compass
2008-03-19 19:02:00 My buddy, Gordon Dveirin, and Joan Borysenko have a new book out ? Your Soul ?s Compass which examines the question: What is Spiritual Guidance? Many people feel guided. Some talk of angels, other spirits, some the heart and others their gut. This book examines spiritual guidance from the seekers perspective offering insight from some of today?s ... More About: Perceptions
Survival Instincts
2008-03-14 00:22:00 Survival Instincts and Survival of the Fittest cannot excuse character and personality distortions. Greed and competitiveness are not survival instincts. The survival instinct, as I understand it, arises out of the brain stem, the reptilian brain. Modern Humans Retain Caveman’s Survival Instincts - Like hunter-gatherers in the jungle, modern humans are still experts at spotting predators ... More About: Survival
Ego Identity
2008-03-10 01:39:00 Identity ? Ego Identitiy ? True Identity What?s the deal with identity anyway. I remember my parents challenging me with ? who do you think you are? At the time I was just a kid ? I didn?t have a clue who I was and they didn?t seem to be helping me found out much either. What ... More About: Identity
Inner Journey
2008-03-07 13:43:00 Googling ? Inner Journey ? I see in the search results many people offering inner journey newsletters and inner journey workshops, but in the descriptions, I see very little that may define what the inner journey is. I guess we assume that everyone knows what the inner journey is. For the (inner) journey is essentially a journey ...
Narcissistic Injury
2008-03-06 17:26:00 Narcissistic injury is one of those loaded psychological terms. In fact, all things narcissistic seem to be. I think that is because the word narcissism or narcissistic is generally used to describe pathology and not the over-arching reality that everyone with an ego (everyone) is a narcissist. Narcissistic defenses are present to some degree in all ... More About: Injury
Universal Love
2008-03-04 23:46:00 What is universal love? Is it the same as unconditional love or is unconditional love a subcategory of universal love? It is my, and many others, observation that love is something experienced by most of humanity and yet it remains mostly misunderstood. It?s interesting. Everyone knows what it is, but few really know it or understand ... More About: Love , Universal
Ego Death
2008-03-03 17:03:00 What does the term *EgoDeath * exactly mean, in brief? Ego death, as I think it should be defined, is a set of insights about, and a powerful experience of, the impotence and logical invalidity of the accustomed apparent control-agent who seems to reside in the mind. Ego death is associated closely with the loss of ...
Narcissistic Rage
2008-02-29 04:40:00 It?s all the rage! Rage seems in vogue these days. The current explosion of narcissistic rage in the culture seems like an organic evolution of the ?me generation.? Every new movie, song, or speech seems to set someone off ? and don?t even mention the road rage phenomenon. Is narcissism at the root of it all? A ...
Object Constancy
2008-02-28 15:37:00 According to object relations theory, object constancy involves maintaining a lasting relationship with a specific object, or rejecting any substitute for such an object. Example of the latter: rejecting mothering from anyone except one’s own mother. Object constancy is “the capacity to recognize and tolerate loving and hostile feelings toward the same object; the capacity to ...
Objective Reality
2008-02-27 02:27:00 Is objective reality possible from a subjective entitiy? We are using the term objective reality in contrast to subjective reality, which is reality seen through our inner mental filters that are shaped by our past conditioning. Objective reality is how things really are. ? A.H. Almaas What is objective realtiy? From Scientologists, to The Matrix, to a ... More About: Reality
Valentine Love
2008-02-14 14:26:00 My friends at the Balloonman created this Valentine bouquet for me. I was blown away by the… creativity! This previous post is very appropriate for today – Valentine’s Day. More About: Poetry , Love
Higher Forms of Evolution
2008-02-04 19:35:00 We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second ... More About: Evolution , Forms , Higher , Perceptions
Political Tongues
2008-01-30 20:23:00 It is Hermes who bridges the gap between the metalinguistic and the sublinguistic in the form of the message, language itself, the medium; he is the trickster who leads in misleading, the tremendum that echoes through the broken word. Hermes is therefore political, or rather ambassadorial-patron of intelligence and cryptography as well as an alchemy that seeks only the embodiment of the realities. Hermes is between text and image, master of the hieroglyphs that are simultaneously both - Hermes is their significance, their translatability. As one who goes “up and down” between spirits and humans, Hermes is the shamanic consciousness, the medium of direct experience, and the interface between these other forms and the political. “Hermetic” can also mean “unseen”. - Hakim Bey - The Obelisk “Renowned for her skillful use of witchcraft and magic, Isis was particularly remembered by the Ancient Egyptians as ’strong of tongues’, that is... More About: Political , Tongues
The Second Attention
2008-01-24 00:51:00 As I said before,” Master Fwap continued, “the mind is like an onion; it is made up of countless layers. The layers closest to the surface of your conscious awareness are the storehouse of your memories and experiences from your current lifetime. But beneath those layers are deeper layers that contain your past-life experiences, and ... More About: Attention , Perceptions
Medical Research Freed from Religion
2008-01-12 17:01:00 Medicine, 1080 Medical research progresses at the Benedictine school associated with the monastery established at Monte Cassino in 529. Arabian, Jewish, and Greco-Roman medical works are translated into Latin by Constantine the African, a physician who has studied medicine and magic at Babylon and who is now disguised as a monk. His translations of Galen and Avicenna ... More About: Religion , Research , Medical Research , Perceptions
Basic Trust
2008-01-11 19:44:00 To find our basic trust is to reconnect with our natural state that we have become separated from. A.H. Almaas More About: Basic , Trust
Time
2008-01-04 17:04:00 Time is carving you…,let yourself be shaped according to your true nature. - Master Po from Kung Fu This is it, you’ve only got one shot, and it’s already started” - Roger Waters For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. - Marshall McLuhan Time is the ... More About: Time , Perceptions
2007 - The End
2007-12-31 22:47:00 A calligraphy near Rumi?s tomb reads: ?after my death, don?t seek my tomb in the earth, for my grave is in the hearts of the men of mystical knowledge.? new years eve 2007, rumi
Primordial Consciousness
2007-12-25 18:46:00 Primordial consciousness, the non-differentiated knowingness, is the freedom that is needed for a state of the mind to be experienced in its most expanded form. - A.H. Almaas almaas, consciousness More About: Consciousness , Primordial , Dial
Santa Dreams
2007-12-22 04:17:00 The platypus and the echidna have huge brains given their low intelligence. Scientists speculate that they need this higher brain to IQ ratio, because they do not have dreams to aid in the learning process. Image by R Wayt Smith dreams, echida, iq, platypus, r wayt smith, santa More About: Dreams , Santa
The Past
2007-12-17 17:01:00 What are the impurities of the personality? What will be clarified from the personality? The answer is simple: the past. - A.H. Almaas ah almaas, past More About: Past
Earth Mantra
2007-12-11 17:43:00 The planet that hums by Robert Coontz from ?New Scientist? September 11, 1999 THEY LIVE UNDERGROUND They are everywhere but seem to come from nowhere. They barely exist, but never leave. If sounds have shadows, they are the shadows of a sound. Researchers call them the background free oscillations of the Earth . But last year, when a pair ... More About: Mantra
Buddha Pendants
More articles from this author:2007-12-09 21:21:00 I received an email today from my friend, Cathleen Bunt, over in Hawaii. Cathleen is a gifted artist. Here?s her email: Here’s a great gift for someone into spirituality. The Buddha head pendant. Available in 18k gold or sterling silver. With or without a stone in the third eye. The above pendant has a white diamond, below ... 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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