Archive for February, 2009

Learning To Be The Observer

Learning To Be The Observer

Wouldn’t it be nice of there were ‘An Owner’s Manual For Human Beings’? A simple, easy to read book that you receive when you’re young about how to understand yourself better so you can live a happier and more successful life. It would be filled with short chapters with easy to apply information, tools and [...]

Going Sane

Going Sane

The following is a transcript from a speech:

“Let me ask you a question. You ever feel like your brain has a mind of its own? Like you want to do one thing but your brain clearly has other plans? Of course you have, we’ve all had that experience. It makes you feel crazy sometimes, not [...]

Illusions Of Perception

Illusions Of Perception

I find illusions fascinating and profound. For example, optical illusions remind me that I am living in a body-mind that is prone to, well…illusion. When I look at the dice, I have the curious experience of feeling like I know what I’m seeing until I realize an instant later that I am suddenly perceiving something [...]

Trances We Live By

Trances We Live By

You are in a trance right now. That’s right. Consider the possibility that on some level everything is hypnosis. Rather than being in or out of a hypnotic trance it is much more accurate to describe people as shifting from one trance to another all the time. This is normal and to a large [...]

Compassion For Pain

Compassion For Pain

Pain gets a bad rap. We all experience pain of one form or another throughout the course of our lives. The source may be at any level: mental, emotional, physical, subtle energetic, even spiritual. With as much pain as there is in the world today, it is surprising there aren’t more and better known solutions [...]