Spirituality for Living

I have experienced such a state. A variety of issues sort of gave me no choice. Used to suffer seizures, irregular theta waves. Those are what make you “unconscious” or at rest, but it wasn’t the sleep cycle. I wasn’t asleep, I was sort of scared. Not even aware of my body. Experienced a shift [...]

I have an issue of action to share. Recently I had an issue with a loss of trust. Major broad spectrum loss of trust. It was activating me like crazy. I didn’t like feeling so badly about people, even about people I love. Well no amount of action was going to fix that. I was [...]

What can we focus our attention on? Really we don’t actually ever focus it on objects, is too abstract. The brain always processes any sensory data well before we are even aware of the object. It is how it is supposed to function. Matter isn’t a valid choice for awareness focus.
So seems we are in [...]

Magic, shamanism is where we started.  No worries about who was in charge.  We didn’t have time.  Our initial instincts were good but then as we got organized, formed nations, the spirit had to have a boss and that served socially.  Allowed for great strides in cooperation but we did go to extremes.  So we [...]

Does anyone have a strong belief that seems contradicted by life? Say you believe in the law of attraction. Really invested in it but you perceive that it doesn’t seem to work?
I’m not so sure that life contradicts what I believe rather than most people’s perceptions - the ‘common’ view - contradicts what I believe. [...]

It’s my experience that even away from organized religion, people still have very strong feelings about ‘belief’. I think I will start with what belief ultimately is.
It’s a feeling of certainty and it does not require logical support. It does require experiential support and it is necessary to human function. It is a part of [...]