THE SENSE OF I

Where does the sense of an I come from? The mind is responsible for creating the sense of ‘I’. It has the capacity to self-reflect on itself. Which means, that it has the capacity to think about itself, about its own thoughts, the sensations arising in the body, and so on. As it does this, it creates a sense of a continuous flow of an ‘I’, verbing itself on and on. Verbs don’t stop, and …

FALLING FROM GRACE

‘It seems to be a maturation of consciousness to know itself as the whole throughout the human system.’ Has anyone else reading this had the experience of having known Oneness as a child? How do you know something until you begin to feel like you are losing it? Sometimes it takes the absence of a thing in order to know what you had. If you are a seeker, or once was, what is it that …

THE MATURATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

‘Awakening is just the beginning.’ What is it called when the search is over? I call it remembering, because it was a remembering for me. Another way that I put it is: the resolution of the paradox. The paradox being that there was myself and everything else, and once that gap closed between the two and became once again (as I had known in childhood), One, then my world was whole again. How maturity reveals …

The LIGHT OF AWARENESS
WORK OF EMBODIMENT

‘We are sensing instruments of consciousness.’ Share from your own knowing is what one of my teachers told me. I can only know what is true for me here and now. The thing is, as the perspective of Self expands to include more and more of the whole of what we are, our knowing and ability to relate to another person’s experience also expands. In this way, our own knowing may now include what is …