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Energy Resonates Awareness
Moving our identity out of the inner dialog into presence requires collected energy as well as awareness. Awareness is sterile without energy. When our energy and awareness resonate together, it makes for presence. When presence is strongly resonating as our center, it’s much easier to abide in. The Mind can rest in that, because it is Peace and Love itself.
The Self Beyond and Within
This physical body is our Earth SuitWe traverse our journey on this planet in itEventually it passes away. We remain alive beyond this Earth Suit.We
The Heart of Spirituality
Being Present with an Open heart is the Heart of Spirituality
Spirituality is ultimately another word for our State of Being.
Being The Self
The deepest level of Human is Being. God and Soul are both essentially That; Beingness. Beingness that encompasses Awareness and Feeling. The essence of Feeling
Happiness Within
Expanding our capacity for Love and Inner Peace are both thoroughly worthy goals whether you think there is a God or not. After all, Happiness
Life is Perfect
The misunderstanding is that this world is supposed to be fun and enjoyable. This planet is more of a sphere of tough lessons and evolution
Why God Can Never Be Proven
It’s almost a universal question: I don’t believe in a God envisioned as an old man with a white beard in the sky, but I’m open to the existence of a Universal Principle. How can I know? Can you Prove God?
What is God
What is God? Folks tend to try to understand God in terms they can understand. Many tend to visualize God as very human and somewhat
Reclaiming Love
Don’t blame Love The only ones who haven’t experienced broken hearts are the ones who never opened theirs. After suffering a broken heart, we often
Love in Essence
Love is a Reality beyond words, but it can be helpful to use words to point to it so we don’t mistake it for its
Advice to be Real
Without knowing you….just knowing how people are living and thinking in these times…this is my advice for whoever has the synchronistic fortune to come across
Transformational Festivals
As we transform within, we are also inspired and empowered by joining with others who feel a similar communion with the essence of Love and Life. They may not visit our particular church, sweat lodge, or ashram, but we can sense they are kindred spirits in our hearts. We reflect each other’s light to one another. We grow and support each other’s awakening when we come together with open hearts.
Healing a Broken Heart
Relationships have a nagging tendency of reflecting our fears, denials, desires, and habit patterns.
All relationships are “perfect” because they mirror ourselves and our relationship to life.
Which is also the problem with them.
Shame
We are all shadowed by shame. We don’t always know it.
Shame makes us tell stories to ourselves that we’re not troubled so we don’t have to face our shame; but, however subconscious, we are ashamed of ourselves and often apologize for our existence.
Inner Dimensions of Touch
There are many dimensions to touch beyond the physical contact. When we touch someone, life force energy, “Chi” or “Prana”, flows between the touching.
Spiritual Word Games
Humans seek emotional security. We want to feel good about ourselves. Deep down, we rarely achieve those good feelings because the “self” we wish to validate is built on a fantasy we have created rather than our true essence. In the struggle to keep our self-image positive, we even distort our spiritual values and beliefs in service of our egos. We play spiritual word games.
Presence is the Aroma of Being
Being is the Loving Awareness that is your Essential Nature
“Be-Here-Now” mindfulness collects your heart and mind into Oneness
This Oneness, whole and collected, resonates Presence
Presence gravitates your mind to its source in Loving Awareness.
You are that Loving Awareness
Self Realization through Love
Self Realization means shifting your awareness from its entanglement in your mind’s incessant mental story about yourself, to abidance in your true essential Being.
yogi stories
Meeting Maharaj Ji
In contrast to the subtle vibration I felt in person, the “Inner Maharaj ji” bowled me over in a flood of Spiritual Light. Nothing subtle about it, it was a cosmic portal of power, one that nourished the local area and the larger sphere with Light and Love.
Meeting Poonja Ji
I first heard about H.W.L.Poonja Ji around the sacred fire of Baba Amarnath. A new friend Murray remarked, “This Baba is the only saint I’ve
Baba Muktananda
Way back in the day, i was in college and just had a radical and unexpected spiritual awakening. Spriituality was all new to me. I
Sundarnath BabaJI
One more Yogi Story since We are on the subject of Amarnath, and I mentioned Sundarnath Baba, his guru. I was sitting around the Dhuna
Amarnath’s English
Amarnath Baba was a beloved teacher and friend whom I met at the 1986 Kumbha Mela in Haridwar, way back in the day. He was
adventure
El Capitan Solo Climb
The crucible in stone would make a final romantic poem from me to Yosemite.
I meant “final” to mean “until I return” but I was aware many poems are tragic.
Free-Solo Washington Column Direct
Sometimes the greatest adventures unfold from an ambitious goal confounded by errors and bad judgement, redeemed by luck, faith, tenacity or even something like grace.
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El Capitan Solo Climb
The crucible in stone would make a final romantic poem from me to Yosemite.
I meant “final” to mean “until I return” but I was aware many poems are tragic.
Free-Solo Washington Column Direct
Sometimes the greatest adventures unfold from an ambitious goal confounded by errors and bad judgement, redeemed by luck, faith, tenacity or even something like grace.
Energy Resonates Awareness
Moving our identity out of the inner dialog into presence requires collected energy as well as awareness. Awareness is sterile without energy. When our energy and awareness resonate together, it makes for presence. When presence is strongly resonating as our center, it’s much easier to abide in. The Mind can rest in that, because it is Peace and Love itself.
The Self Beyond and Within
This physical body is our Earth SuitWe traverse our journey on this planet in itEventually it passes away. We remain alive beyond this Earth Suit.We
The Heart of Spirituality
Being Present with an Open heart is the Heart of Spirituality
Spirituality is ultimately another word for our State of Being.
Festival Workshops
Each year I present workshops and Ceremonies at West Coast Festivals and Burning Man. I Feel these events can be transformative, deep and fun too.
Being The Self
The deepest level of Human is Being. God and Soul are both essentially That; Beingness. Beingness that encompasses Awareness and Feeling. The essence of Feeling
Happiness Within
Expanding our capacity for Love and Inner Peace are both thoroughly worthy goals whether you think there is a God or not. After all, Happiness
Meeting Maharaj Ji
In contrast to the subtle vibration I felt in person, the “Inner Maharaj ji” bowled me over in a flood of Spiritual Light. Nothing subtle about it, it was a cosmic portal of power, one that nourished the local area and the larger sphere with Light and Love.
Life is Perfect
The misunderstanding is that this world is supposed to be fun and enjoyable. This planet is more of a sphere of tough lessons and evolution
Why God Can Never Be Proven
It’s almost a universal question: I don’t believe in a God envisioned as an old man with a white beard in the sky, but I’m open to the existence of a Universal Principle. How can I know? Can you Prove God?
What is God
What is God? Folks tend to try to understand God in terms they can understand. Many tend to visualize God as very human and somewhat
Reclaiming Love
Don’t blame Love The only ones who haven’t experienced broken hearts are the ones who never opened theirs. After suffering a broken heart, we often
Love in Essence
Love is a Reality beyond words, but it can be helpful to use words to point to it so we don’t mistake it for its
Meeting Poonja Ji
I first heard about H.W.L.Poonja Ji around the sacred fire of Baba Amarnath. A new friend Murray remarked, “This Baba is the only saint I’ve
Baba Muktananda
Way back in the day, i was in college and just had a radical and unexpected spiritual awakening. Spriituality was all new to me. I
Advice to be Real
Without knowing you….just knowing how people are living and thinking in these times…this is my advice for whoever has the synchronistic fortune to come across
Transformational Festivals
As we transform within, we are also inspired and empowered by joining with others who feel a similar communion with the essence of Love and Life. They may not visit our particular church, sweat lodge, or ashram, but we can sense they are kindred spirits in our hearts. We reflect each other’s light to one another. We grow and support each other’s awakening when we come together with open hearts.