Apparently we should never use the ‘N’ word in any circumstance. It is offensive and should not be allowed to be spoken because that is racism. Let me clarify what I am talking about, the word is ‘Nigger’ Nigger Nigger Nigger Are you offended yet? Now I must clarify that I would not in ordinary speech use this word. I do not see any reason… Read More »Why I still use the ‘N’ Word
There is a concept that the greatest journey you can make is from your head into your heart. It is a nice thought, but inaccurate. The first confusion here is between centring yourself in a particular centre, and opening a particular centre. The heart should be open, and flowing with the pure love and light of spirit, but to focus on the heart as your… Read More »The Downwards Journey
Likely you have heard of Chi, Vital force, Orgone Energy, Prana, or whatever you like to call it. Star Wars fans will call it ‘The Force’ – and that is as good a description as any. This is an energy that is as yet not measured by scientific machinery, but the mystics, and healers, and spiritualists are able to perceive it, and in fact it… Read More »Universal Harmony
Obviously selfishness causes all kinds of problems in ourselves and society and the world. It is a kind of love, but a very limited kind of love that can be cruel to others because its compassion is limited to only the self. Most of us are not purely selfish – that dubious honour is reserved for only the most undeveloped or traumatised of us. However… Read More »Selfishness, Selflessness and Self-fullness
I once was looking for good words to describe love in more subtlety than we tend to do in English – to try to express the different types of love – the love of a mother is different to the loyal love that a dog will express to you, and the love for your romantic partner is quite different again, and then there is divine… Read More »Love in it many forms
We aim for connectedness – which is perhaps a better way of saying love – not the I love you, but the ‘we are connected’ however there are a lot of different types of connections, and ways of being disconnected. It is easy to see people who are lacking in connection to others – they are course, insensitive, rude. But what about people who are… Read More »Triple Connection
Self realisation is not the end of the journey. You discover yourself, and your deep inner nature, you find the joy of connection with all things, you feel a sense of constant peace – then what? Is that as far as it goes? Do you just sit and meditate for the rest of your life? Or do you take what you have learnt and bring… Read More »Self Realisation and Self Actualisation
Throughout the world in all the spiritual traditions, and even in modern psychology the same understanding about the layers of the mind pops up again and again. It is described in different ways, and in different contexts, but the essence of it is always the same. In yoga they are called the layers of the mind or Koshas. In Christianity St Teresa d’Ávila described them… Read More »The Layers of the Mind
Is Love the answer? The obvious joke would be that it depends on what the question is – but that is not really accurate. Love is so universal that in some form it is the answer to almost any question that one can ask, but whether or not you have a true answer depends on what you mean by love. The current popular vision of… Read More »Beyond Love
Why is life such a struggle? It seems like conflicts are a constant part of life – the inner conflict resolving the different parts of yourself, conflicts in your family and relationships, political conflict, war, and the conflict between how you wish the world was, and the way it actually is. But in the end all conflict arises from a misperception of the nature of… Read More »Conflict is only a lack of understanding