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How To Meditate Without Even Trying
You may be surprised to hear that meditation should be effortless, that no striving or concentration is needed. I know I was. When I first became interested in meditation, back in the mid-sixties, I...
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The Anomaly Of Consciousness & Why Mainstream Science Ignores It
Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning of the material world, but when it comes to the inner world of the mind, it has very little to say. And when it comes to...
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Why I Pray To Myself & Not Some External Power
A friend recently asked if I ever prayed for anything. My response was yes, but not in the conventional way. I don’t pray for intervention in the world, but for intervention in my mind, for that’s...
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How To Quiet Your Mind In Even The Loudest Settings
The building where I used to run a meditation group was on the same street as a fire station; one could almost guarantee that sometime during the meditation a fire engine would come rushing past,...
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There’s No Such Thing As Ego
I don’t have an ego. And nor do you. That doesn’t mean you and I don’t get caught up in egocentric thinking and behavior, but that we are mistaken in thinking of the ego as some separate individual...
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Why Waiting Is So Hard To Do & How To Get Better At It
“Waiting Is” — a phrase immortalized in Robert Heinlein’s celebrated sci-fi novel Stranger in a Strange Land. For most of us, waiting is not easy, often even a bore. Waiting for a bus or train, we look...
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We Live In A World Obsessed With Wisdom, But Do We Really Know What It Is?
Humanity is too clever to survive without wisdom. — E.F Schumacher What is wisdom? We hear the word a lot these days — the need for wisdom, the wisdom traditions, wisdom schools. We each would like to...
View ArticleAre We In The Midst Of A Great Awakening?
We are living through the most exciting times in human history. Breakthroughs in every area of science are opening our minds to the beauty and mystery of the material world. At the same time technology...
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Love In Practice: Communicating With Care In Your Heart
In all communication, there is one thing that each and every one us requires. We all want to be appreciated, honoured, and respected. None of us want to feel criticized, rejected, ignored, or...
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Is Consciousness The Bridge Between Science & Religion?
Science and religion often seem poles apart–and in many ways they are. But I believe the two can, and will eventually be, united; and their meeting point will be human consciousness. That we are...
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The Evolution Of Consciousness – Are All Creatures Conscious?
Before we can begin to consider the evolution of consciousness, we have to ask when consciousness first arose. Are human beings alone conscious, or are other creatures also conscious? Is an animal such...
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How To Be A Wizard & Why We All Have The Potential To Be One
A wizard allows synchronicity to manifest. We cannot make synchronicities happen. It is in their very nature to occur “by coincidence.” We cannot control or manipulate the world in order to create...
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Back To The Present
The thirteenth-century Christian mystic Meister Ekhart described how in moments of inner quiet: There exists only the present instant . . . a Now which always and without end is itself new. . . . There...
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The Roots Of Thinking
Much of our thinking takes the form of self-talk—conversations we have with ourselves, inside our minds. Clearly, the original root of this verbal thinking is speech. Speech gave humans the ability to...
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