Before You Open Your Third Eye, How About Opening the First Two?
People think spirituality is about contemplating lofty ideas, like God and souls and consciousness and higher dimensions and flying spaghetti monsters and so on. But spirituality is really the most pragmatic, rational, down-to-earth business there is. ...
I Will Take Care of You for a Week
When you look into a mirror, what do you see? You see a pile of flesh that we generally call a person. And this person in the mirror is the person you have learned to identify with. This person is associated with wishes, desires, fears, problems,...
Anxiety Is a Coping Mechanism
Anxiety is modern society’s bread and butter. Social conditioning is the only reason anxiety is rampant in the first place. We’re conditioned to be anxious. If we had a bunch of psychiatrists rummaging around everyone’s psyches, most people could...
The Philosopher’s Worst Nightmare
When you wrestle with existential questions it’s inevitable to reach a certain intellectual end-point. That intellectual end-point is usually not a comfortable one because it comes with two bummers: – I don’t know anything except that I exist (and even...
When Are You Done Working On Yourself?
If you’re reading this I know you’ve worked on yourself plenty. You’ve laid all your problems out, felt every emotion there is, turned the lights on, faced the shadows, and done all you could to fix whatever you believed needed fixing. At...
101 Steps For Transformation