Spirituality for Living

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 [...]

My own spiritual path is based not on abstaining from passion, but on embracing it. When you truly embrace it and let it consume you, you learn something surprising. This you it consumed is not “you”. Not the all encompassing thing. Some have described me as having strong self control. I don’t actually. I don’t [...]

In many schools of thinking being excited about life is frowned upon. It is seen as somehow irresponsible. It is supposedly better to become dead inside and tractable and to pursue only “sensible” things. What in life is sensible? What of our wants and need are rational? Take humour. What is practical about humour? But I [...]

Can you give us a step by step methodology to activate our chakras/kundalini?

First be still, in being still you head the body. Still all choice, still all will, still feeling, still speech. Look not here or there.  Be still and know. The crown chakra is the seat of knowing. It’s the first link.
Then choose from [...]

There are three personality types over the two genders:

phalic
hysteric
schizoid

None are mental health issues and it could be said that:

phalic = rage
hysteric = feeling
schizoid = cerebral

Do you feel non identification with gender impulses? You may be genuinely and naturally schizoid. It doesn’t mean the other factors don’t matter. They do, and it is more like handedness.
But [...]

Anger is something that people delude themselves about seriously, and it never goes away. At any time you could become angry, and as much as you meditate, as much as you pray, anger doesn’t go away does it?
It just needs the trigger and there in lays the problem, the trigger. People villainize the emotion, [...]

Inner demons. I’m not actually going to talk about what might seem to be implied by the topic, but I will be talking about inner demons. People say demons, and ghosts, and things, are just fantasies. Just in your head. Well, this is the dirty little secret that even your pasts don’t really tell you [...]

Can inner demons be channelled a good way? Yes. In eastern beliefs, the Oni, a.k.a. demons, were crude, sort of dim witted, and very violent. But they existed to enact the justice of heaven. They were moved when heaven recognized a wrong, and they were the active agents of correction. Now keep in mind they aren’t [...]

In seeing the illusion you can see the reality behind it, but many stop there. They see how they, and their teaching, was mistaken, and that attachment is the source of suffering. Then they become detached, and stop there. They bring a spirit of detachment to the world, and when confronted with attachments they won’t [...]

Connecting one to one is for understanding. That is the purpose, and really it’s the purpose to any human interaction. In the broader sense they call it love, but the originating spirit in us, the level of consciousness that precedes our ideation about communication and life itself, is rarely apprehended or approached with much understanding. [...]

What would life be like if everyone had a job they loved from their spirit? It‘s really crazy that we live the majority of our life “putting in hours” to get money. And doing things that seen in the big picture we would not approve of another doing.
Maybe in Second Life we find people more [...]

Anyone not have impulses? I know I do, and aren’t artists known for being impulsive? It’s almost a stereotype.
Well, it is true, and any artist can tell you the difference between you and them is not what’s in your head, but how they feel about it. For an artist, an impulse is powerful like feeling a [...]

The literal meaning of cult is a body of practices. Cult culture. The culture cult is a huge cult, and they fear cultists. Cultists are doing culture a huge favour. They need the cultists to believe their cult is sane, because culture and our educated thinking only seems stable in the contrast, not by itself. [...]

Your memory, as we are taught to use it, has been taken up with your thinking. It wasn’t meant for that. Memories original purpose was to allow ourselves to retain impulses and sensory impressions. To keep us in touch with our inner and outer worlds. Not to be a stage for us to rehearse our [...]

Abstinence can be freeing in a way. It leads to greater indulgence, and allows for informed choice. Abstinence lets you really feel and understand your own being, and how you are letting it reflect in the world anyway, but it needn’t be compulsory. Rather than “never do this” and “always do that”, maybe it can [...]

How are you today?

Still Breathing. Breathing is good.  I rather like it. Breathing and moving. So, we are all alive today?
And kicking. Oh, do indeed kick if it’s necessary. I enjoy marital arts.
In gratitude today, thank God. Excellent, remember to thank God is to be likewise grateful to yourself.
We thank ourselves all too infrequently. [...]

The subject is waste, and people are very concerned with conservatism. It’s like saying “Here. Let me keep all the blood in your hand. You know you need blood in your hand right?”. Taken to the extreme you will lose the hand. The same applies to psychic energy. “Here let me keep your energy on these [...]

We need to feel like we matter. A well respected psychologist by the last name of Maslow said this. He was the first to look for a model of healthy, high functioning mentality.
They think “mattering” is something you have when you have money. Yet we live in a system that can only really function well [...]

We are creative and expressive beings, living paradoxes if you will. I live by an old eastern saying, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. This relates very much to productivity, I feel. Anyone see how?
Perhaps let’s examine the precept a portion at a time. It is very old. First the statement that nothing is true [...]

Have any of you ever had a day when you had no impulse to do anything at all that day? Have any of you had a day where you had no impulse to act?
Are you saying that a day spent doing nothing is a day well spent? Yes, and I’m also saying that when you [...]