It's useful to periodically review and re-assess our current state and self-identity and how we present ourselves in the world. Do our actions match our desires? Are your motivations aligned…

Who do you Trust? Who do you learn from? Summer 2021: I walked into a bookstore I'd never been in before:  Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room, in Ann Arbor. …

There can be some distance between seeing the all-pervading unitary oneness of creation and actually living in the realization of this. Using third-person grammar and thinking in terms less identified…

A poem I must share. It came to my attention as I was contemplating the necessity of separating our sense of ourselves from the body and it's sensations and activities.…

Cognitive Dissonance is a term we might encounter in this modern age full of action and ideas. Definitions vary slightly, here's a basic meaning: Cognitive dissonance, anxiety that results from simultaneously…

I wrote a post with this same title after the last time I volunteered for Bhava Spandana, while the experience was still fresh in body, mind, emotions, and energies. This…

Teacher asks me "What's holding you back?". Immediately I feel that familiar shock of surprise and recognition. It's like he just pointed at the elephant in the room and asked…

Expanding here on a metaphor I've been using lately. It came as a visual image: a brightly lit sports field, with clearly delineated markings and goal areas. The area beyond…

Let's consider the the experiences and states of being possible for humans, and how these are affected by meditation and drugs. I spent decades of this life using drugs as…

Part 1 - yogi meets Baptist I recently went to visit my 90 year old uncle, who is dying of cancer. He's near the end, in hospice and treatment efforts…