WE DEFAULT to ‘wrong’ thinking—meaning narrow, limited, short-sighted thinking—partly out of habit and partly because we have never been taught to think in a broader, more flexible, more expansive way. We also resort to wrong thinking because we are usually…
QUESTION: Would you say that what we call ‘will power’ is derived from essence? I'm wondering about the effort required by a person to do a thing despite extreme mechanical resistance to doing that thing and if this same effort…
A MAIN TENET of the fourth way system is that specific obstacles keep consciousness ‘asleep’. These obstacles are delineated as imagination, identification, inner-considering, lying, unnecessary talk, and the external expression of unpleasant or negative emotions. Eastern (non-dual) teachings explain a…
Identification is a force, a pressure. It is the psychological gravity behind the tendency for awareness to be unwittingly drawn to and into thoughts, sensations, feelings, objects, and the visible world at large, and to attach itself to all of them. The…
WHAT IS commonly called the higher Self refers to pure consciousness or awareness which is silent. It is not silent in the sense of how an object or voice is silent. It is the silent dimension of the presence of conscious awareness…