Spirituality for Living

Rather than noticing what is, we “think” we know, and if you know, you need not “think” things. You need not construct models of the world in your mind, you will see, experience, and move and be moved quite naturally.

We cannot truly avoid thought, but we can know it for what it is. If I say pero or if I say dog, I say the same word. Refers to the same thing. So if we know this, then any way of saying it is valid. With the truth in mind, the words loose their central place and just become the finger pointing that they were meant to be.

Words are a road sign that points the way. They are not the destination. There is a reason we say actions speak louder than words, but the strange thing is we act based on words. We base our actions on what people [...] Continue to Seek…

It seems one of the significant stumbling blocks in both spiritual and practical matters is how we have been conditioned to think “rationally”. We are led to believe that by breaking things down to ideas we label as “facts” that we somehow are engaging in the only sane way of thinking. We are like the blind person in the proverb who having contact with a small part of any experience goes on to declare we understand the whole of the pattern and declaring this we are praised for it.

Our mind arose as a part of the same natural process that can be said to have created our spirits as well. Thus the Greek word “psyche” used to mean both spirit and soul. But we do not still posses a natural understanding of mind or a natural understanding of the creative process we refer to as thought. Instead we have education [...] Continue to Seek…

The search for rest is what takes so many people into substance abuse. To take a break from their inner chaos. The process that leads to addiction is not “evil” in the person. We do even the harmful things because we perceive a need, but are not always in touch with our real needs. So in desperation we try anything at all. This life we are taught to live seems to lead so many to an almost mad desperation so we try many relationships and gain many emotional scars, and we try many distractions. Can get obsessive about recreation. Is a reason media like movies have so much influence.

We can get so upset that we will seek oblivion just to find peace. Even online activities like the Second Life virtual world can be an addiction, but addiction is just a state of unawareness. We can choose Second Life knowingly, [...] Continue to Seek…

You may be cautious about your mind ‘making up’ a story. If so, don’t believe these words and don’t believe your thinking right now. It is the same process. Don’t believe what your body is telling you. We all take cognizance in exactly the same way, it is all the mind making up a story.

Daydreaming can be a form of psychic ability. However, we do lie to ourselves. What differentiates is the quality of awareness, but you can check yourself on that. When your eyes say you see your computer screen is there any element of wilfulness? Of certainty or uncertainty? No. Is just natural. If you are psychically sensing it works the same way.

You need to be present enough to know when you’re pushing something. And if you are sensing something of deep personal meaning to you, it is all too easy to blind yourself to the truth [...] Continue to Seek…

You can also try a vision exercise. What we will look at is self directed vision. If you have a stronger sense, it makes sense to use it and use vision to supplement it if you need more clarity. So with vision…the same exercise as feeling, only different focus.

Exercise:

Focus on seeing. Recall a place or person you would seek to know more about or a situation. An object of attention, person, place or thing. Your choice. If you can, anchor that clearly in your mind.
When you have the object of your attention let your awareness shift to the images. Don’t strain. Just go from recall of the subject to images arising of the subject. Note what feelings arise as these images occur to you. Is what you feel memory, or is it something more? Does it differ in any way? Release any effort to analyze and just observe.

Also try [...] Continue to Seek…

Are we never to force our will on life? People think that without force, without “taking initiative”, we would never express ourselves at all. Never do or create anything. We are told any creation is an act of will. Everything is supposedly hard work. Well, stress happens even if you find the inner way. But you are part of the flow of life and the feelings you have inside that make you desire things and want to give things, are a part of that flow. If you only knew those moments of rest, then you would not truly know rest. The flow of life is a cycle of action and rest and we can come to know both.

To find the moments of both in our lives, it doesn’t take work. In spiritual pursuits there is often talk of work, of practice and it can be confusing. You don’t have [...] Continue to Seek…

The difference between coming to rest in life, and stagnation. Very different dynamics. We often feel that anything in life must be our decision. That we have to be in control. So we often set rhythms in our life that actually raise our general stress level. We think we either have to be driven, or control change, or any of a myriad of preconceptions about how the proper life should be led, and to some degree this can’t be totally avoided. Our society is based on some concepts and to work with others we must give these ideas some place. But there is another way.

The Chinese speak of both a Tao or way of the world and a personal Tao. A natural way of ourselves. Now some people consider that getting your own way is about ego, is selfish. But they are speaking of the way they have built [...] Continue to Seek…

‘Focus determines your reality’. Your reality is more than what you see with your eyes. Can you recall a time when you really only had one thing on your mind? When you’re doing a task that you’re really absorbed in?

Have you ever been in that state where you desired companionship and didn’t perceive yourself to have it? Ever hear yourself say you were lonely? Meaning you desired an intimate relationship? Well, didn’t everything start looking different? Even find yourself seeing things differently? More in that context? Really your life becomes about finding that intimate connection. That searching can often keep it away, but the state spreads throughout your experience. Intimate connection is within us all, but it doesn’t obviate the need to share with another human being. The instinct to bond with someone like that isn’t wrong.

That is an example of focus determining reality. For me, a big focus [...] Continue to Seek…

Ok, so far other posts in this series have only discussed the principles of how psychic function is possible. We haven’t gone into the actual doing yet, and it is potentially helpful to figure out the actual doing of it.

Space and time do not exist, thus you remember a contact even when you are not experiencing the stimulus that initially created it. All that you have ever experienced directly or indirectly you are still in contact with. Past and future. Time does not exist because in fact it’s a tapestry of probability. We exist along all lines of probability.

So when you sense the future, you actually sense something that can happen now and in fact everything can happen now. But some things have more energy than others thus they seem more brightly lit and are easier to see. Are more likely to happen. More probability of happening = more energy [...] Continue to Seek…

Ego thinks ‘I do’ and that by virtue of ‘myself‘ I must do everything. Thought is not self. Thought is process and we are “created in gods image”. All powerful. Which means we have the power of ability to do all things. Good or bad.

We get caught up in the same thing. Ego is doing the same thing we have always done. Do the same thing you always do and you will get the same thing you always got. The ego can only exist in repetition. In the supposition that something is self, and the supposition on our part that thing is what the self is. It has only very limited use and is crippling to get locked into it. If you ask me to tell you about myself, I will answer you honestly. In that I will not fabricate anything. But it forces me to look for data [...] Continue to Seek…