SpiritAwake

  Been watching you since your beginnings, when you were seeing a few things truly, moved by what was apparently a sincere desire to seek further into truth, and share that experience, conversation or journey with others… And then watching as you began to get side tracked more and more,…

  Community In Place “Real change begins with real people in a real place, here, and now.” “Human community cannot change in the ways it must now, if we are to survive, for as long as we remain separate from these local places where we live.” There is a popular…

  My cousin (who’s writings can be found Here) messaged me the below. I was moved to reply to her with what follows. As I re-read my “Puzzled” blog post it occurred to me that a great many people, particularly those to whom that post was directed, do not see Trump’s FB…

  Part One God does not “see” sin… What the world calls “mercy” in common usage presumes a crime (or sin) has been committed, and that “forgiveness” is about something real, in other words a “real” crime, or sin. In such an ontology forgiveness and mercy serve merely to “make”…

  Part One Something that may help, in the face of what is happening in this country and in the world, is to be willing to consider all of it in terms of what works and what doesn’t work. Not speaking does not work. Speaking in ways that increase delusion,…

  Part One It is Grace that brings about the final cessation of any identity of separation, otherwise called ego, to reveal all of manifest Existence as this Truth of Love that we also Are. No ego or identity of separation can orchestrate such a dissolution, nor can any illusion…

  eeing (Awareness) knows that it knows, and knows its own seeing or knowing, without any need of another (an other). This seeing is NOT of the eyes, ears, or any of the bodily senses. Metaphor, we must “move” with words such as these, allow them to carry us past…

  Context Wilderness and wildness can be beautiful ways to recognize source made manifest, and to describe an enlivened earth as the larger terrain we and all of life are co-participants in.  In this view or metaphor, and for the purposes of this essay, wildness is understood to be the…

  An Alchemical journey over a period of many months, during the year 2008. True Silence cannot be kept. It can only be discovered. ~ Mooji It is morning, woke into all the same terror, center of it moving around, abdomen, belly, chest, laying still so as to be with…

  I have been following some of Bernardo’s writings for a long time. A while ago my cousin asked me if I saw something he had just written, and my thoughts on it…  My answer to her has evolved into this essay…  Bernardo Kastrup doesn’t seem to fully realize the…

  Part One The logical underpinnings, world views and mechanistic paradigms of what is predominantly a northern hemisphere Western/European, patriarchal, hierarchical and deeply alienated culture has colonized and subjugated indigenous, southern hemisphere, Eastern, feminine, matriarchal and nearly all other human ways of understanding, relating, experiencing and sharing the commons (world)….

  Starting with Richard Rohr’s; “God loves us by becoming us…” As beautiful as these words are in their most obvious meaning, I believe they also include some deeper dimensions of understanding that many people are not yet able (or prepared) to hear…? I believe they are also saying that…

  It seems that, due to the limitations and structures of language, the word Consciousness (being a noun) suggests that it, that is consciousness itself, is an object. However, Consciousness cannot be an object simply because it is that which is aware of all objects, including such things as nouns….