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Yes, I would agree completely that what we get is what we want, and what our minds dwell upon, or are attentive to, determines our reality, now, and later, and presumably, after death. Frankly, I think that after death, we awake from death to re-structure our life just as we previously left it, ad i...

Early on, and indeed throughout much of our acquaintance with this individual, our devotion to him was very superficial, and indeed, in the beginning, it was mostly the glamor of the man, and the rub off of being around one who claimed to have all the answers in this area. In the beginning, glamor c...

Jenjulian: Thanks so much for the full paragraph - it is so perfectly and brightly stated. And ain't it the truth? I remember years and years of insecurity about what I knew to be true, what I was discovering to be true, and the glory of it all, and certainly the reluctance to immerse myself in it m...

timeIn retrospect, any one can see a pattern to their life, as well as miraculous intervention if they need it. Looking back, I now see that my life has been full of those times, even before embarking on a conscious pursuit of God, although at the time they occurred, I was blind to them. But Iceland...

(02/07/08)Dreaming I hesitate to address dreams, and their value, because by my own admission today, dwelling on the contents of consciousness is counter productive to transcending the very consciousness that enslaves us and anchors us to our limited perspectives of who we are. In other words, analy...

Another, and possibly more relevant conclusion to what I suggested might be the deluded mind -- which I suggested it might be, and as reported above, is that possibly -- is that this is proof of the creative power of the mind, and that, instead of a deluded mind, this was an expression of the creati...

To further record Dr. Swagger and my encounters with him: I recall a very important moment with him, when he reported to me that he wanted to address my concerns that I might be “possessed”. I asked him where he got the idea that I thought that. He said I had told him so. I had absolutely no recolle...

I just remembered the fellow’s name, it was Dr. Swagger, and he was a student of Arthur Ford. Remember Arthur Ford? He was a big deal in the 60’s – a predictor of the future, and a psychic of some renown. He founded Spiritual Frontiers, one of the first major organizations to set up conferences acro...

Many, many years ago, when I was being counseled by a well respected young man in the spiritual arena in those days -- can't remember his name, but he was a follower of someone or other - can't remember that someone or other's name either - wonder what that means? - anyway, I asked him, in my youthf...

Here's something I like from one of my Zen Buddhist texts which sounds like this forum. A student asks, "What is Zen?" The Master replies, "It is right before your eyes." The student says, "If it is right before my eyes, why can't I see it?" The Master says, "You ...

More than half the battle is "hearing the good news" - that the "me" is the problem - and recognizing that it is the problem. Most of us spend our lives seeing the problems "out there" never realizing that as Pogo said so many years ago "The problem is us!". (...

Re longing for groups, and solitude. I think that all individuals, whether aware of it or not, have a core loneliness, what might be called existential angst by the professionals, that is unavoidable, and inevitable by virtue of the fact that we are human beings. Many of us buffer that very normal h...

I made this a separate topic, because it seems to me we misunderstand the meaning of this often repeated requirement for the intellectual, or understanding, approach toward God. It is an essential step to take, if one approaches spiritual understanding intellectually, as opposed to devotionally. If ...

This is an interesting idea, body being prisoner. Of course, I must ask the inevitable question, prisoner to whom? My take is that BOTH the body and the mind are the wardens of the jail, and the prisoner is neither the body or the mind, but the free soul, or Self, or God being that body mind. And th...

Well, after wading around here, and grumbling about having to learn to navigate all over again, I thought I'd add a little to the Gurdjieff issue, since I once upon a time studied him fairly extensively. I discovered that with Gurdjieff, his theories, however elaborate and complex they may have appe...