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Levels of Perception
We can attempt to sort the opportunities for perceptual growth (transcendence) into levels. A top level where we have realized the full non-solipsistic extent of the I and perceived entirety as truly and inescapably one-and-the-same – Non-Dual. A penultimate where we have realized (learned and embodied) what the article body discusses above, seated ourselves into…
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Subject and Object
I perceive me.I perceive you and things.I am the perceiver.I am the Subject.Me and you and things are the Object when perceived by the Subject. I believe you are also an I.I believe you are a Subject like I. We are identical in our essence of perceivership.We differ in the Object contents of our perception.…
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You Cannot Have the Jacuzzi
I’d like to be more clear. Action is not necessary. It is an opportunity within your life and experience of choice. It is not merely ambition that misleads you and causes suffering. It is over-investment in the external world of action: in the dualistic appearance of cause and effect, and in the hope that exercising…
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Three Brain Cells
Goodness is simple. If you’re using more than three brain cells, you’re already in hell. The Original Sin is judgment: your attempt to rationalize and debate when you already know the right answer. If you sincerely don’t think you already know the right answer, you are probably overcomplicating it. Nothing is worth the complexity and…
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Demon Chorus
In coming to Reality, you may find that you have mistaken a relentless chorus of demons for yourself. It is Good to come into occupancy of yourself, instead of remaining possessed by the chorus. The Work can begin with simple observation: noticing the transient, non-sovereign nature of these partial aspects of yourself. But it can…
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Three Spiritual Questions
What questions in spirituality stand out for you the most? Wonderful question. Three spiritual questions stand out. First: What should I do? Underlying nearly every inquiry I’ve ever had is some version of this question. What should I do? What should I think, believe, pursue, avoid, trust, become? For decades I searched for an answer…
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Remaining Questions
What questions in spirituality stand out for you the most? Great question. Three stand out as worth mentioning right now. Honestly, I think beneath every inquiry ever is some version of: What should I do? Or: what should I think, believe, pursue, avoid, trust, become? In small practical contexts, this can be easy to answer.…
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What Should I Do?
I believe that underlying my every inquiry ever, I am fundamentally asking: What should I do? In small contexts, this can be simple, clear, even comforting: a board game, a conversation, someone saying “thank you.” But gaze too long at any context and its meaning can begin to fall away inside a sufficiently larger context:…
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Valence, Prediction, Will
Even if there were an objective meaning to life, you cannot have it directly. You have you. And regardless of your delusions of rainbow interconnectivity, fundamentally you have your experience, your limits, your projections, and your relation to reality. In this case, I’m pointing to your quality of experience: valence. Whether you like it or…
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Meeble and the Light: Contentment or Compulsion
Wisdom of GHA: Be here now.Do what should. Be here contentedly,Else do what you should do;Anything less you shouldn’t. The highest opportunity is heaven, contentment in the eternal moment.But as ever you become unable to rest in such contentment, next best you may as well do whatever else it is you sincerely should be doing. …
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The Real (Lacanian Psychoanalysis)
In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the Real is the dimension of existence that lies completely outside language, images, and conscious comprehension. It is not “reality” (which is shaped by our perceptions and society), but rather the raw, pre-symbolic, and often overwhelming truth of the universe that resists being spoken or defined. Three Registers
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Reading, Conversation, Exercise – You’re doing it wrong!
Reading Stop reading. Get out of your head and into your life. Conversation Conversation? Why are you asking? Make no mistake, if you’re opening your mouth, it is for you. I don’t mean this academically. And I don’t mean don’t start a conversation. I mean, notice what you’re up to. If you’re asking me “how…
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What’s in it for you?
Somehow it only recently occurred to me– that not everyone is innately driven to do what is right and good,– that they wouldn’t, even if they understood and could.– that it may be naive fantasy that we all have an inner conscience like my own. Furthermore, it may be that the driving force of many…
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Act Now in Kindly Prudence
It’s not about grand plans – it’s about actual right action now and forever. It’s not about saving yourself or the world – that can only be done together. It’s not at your exclusion – most of the kindly prudent actions you should be taking are basic care of yourself and obvious tasks you’ve been…
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Act Here Now
Be Here Now is too passive. Action without decency and presence of mind is digging a devil’s hole. We don’t need more than 3 brain cells to know decent options in any given moment. If you’re busting your brain then you’ve lost the light and you’re in hell. Heaven is not at the end of…
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The full potential of life is already here, now, always.
How do I explain the new synthesis, the ultimate call? To become more fully the entirety of yourself by also developing entirely beyond and inclusive of all that is and ever will be. This isn’t a heady exercise. Your reading and studying is playing into smallness. Meditation – real silent into-the-moment meditation – is fantastic…
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Self-Absorption
It’s not them; it’s you – you are your problem, falling short of love and acceptance of all as it is. You are welcome to participate in matters of the world. But why? Of what? If you are against, then you are part of the problem of suffering, both in yourself and in creating suffering…
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Loving Reality
Loving the world as it is feels impossible when we’re staring at the evening news and or arguing with our partner. To find peace, we have to shift from our judgmental ‘ego’ view to a non-dual relationship with reality. It’s difficult to love reality until we get to a practically non-real non-dual relationship with the…