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. ...
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...
Weltschmerz
There is a German word that wonderfully expresses the non-specific discontent that gets us on the right track towards awakening or even a more, dare I say, authentic life where conditioning-riddled decisions, opinions, and actions are no longer the norm — Weltschmerz...
Top-down or Bottom-up?
If you’ve been with me for a while, you might have noticed that I talk about two approaches here. On the one hand, I prattle on about the fact that your true nature is that always present undeniable awareness and all you need to “do” is glimpse it and...
Spiritual Anarchism: Spirituality Without Conformity
Do you like figuring things out for yourself? Do you dislike being a follower? Are you willing to get your insights anywhere, whether it’s in a book, a bird’s chirp, or a neighbor’s rude remark? Then you might be a spiritual anarchist....
101 Steps For Transformation