May 30, 2023
It is often said in the Vedas that the world is an illusion. This does not mean the world is not real; it means that the world is not what it appears to be. When we understand this, we can stop grasping at the world and find the perfection in the now.
May 26, 2023
In between thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions there is a space. It's not actually something that appears in the moments between; it is ever-present. This is what we are. The implications for this understanding are immense.
May 24, 2023
Psychedelics help to break down the brain's habitual patterns and it's desire to validate its preexisting models of the world. This also helps to reorient how we think about ourselves and what the nature of reality is.
May 22, 2023
We fear irreversibility more than anything else, and death is the ultimate irreversible experience if we orient as a body-mind. Religion promises salvation from this through faith in God; philosophy promises the same through wisdom/knowledge and rational thinking.
May 17, 2023
To be human is to suffer, but to be awareness is to be happy, free, whole and complete. How can we "live in the and" of these two seemingly conflicting views?