Positive Energy Guide

At my recent retreat I was doing a sound practice that generates a sense of spacious, eternal power. It was comprised of three different Divine Names, combining their energies. I chose to practice this one fairly loudly, while walking, to bring it into my body and integrate it. Participants had been invited to use the […]

I recently attended a five day silent spiritual retreat during which most of each day was spent doing intensive practice on one’s own. Each day participants were given specific sound practice and meditations, tuned to suit our spiritual needs. When I attend such an event, I initially feel confined. The practice schedule allows almost no […]

The wife of one of my best friends died eighteen months ago. He told me that one of the most painful aspects of that huge loss was that “she was the keeper of my memories.” She had been and beside him, sharing countless, varied experiences and life events for several decades. She remembered the names […]

In my last post I mentioned cutting my hair to let go of the past. Let’s talk more generally about letting go of the past, and about loss. Sometimes we are able to welcome releasing things that hold us to our pasts. We do not experience this as loss, or if we do, it is […]

The energy at some spiritual centers is very powerful. Every time I have visited certain places I have experienced strong energy activation. I felt somehow changed, felt lighter, and returned to my daily life—only to face various unusual challenges. The nature of these challenges has always been unexpected, unrelated to my behavior, and seemingly random. […]

Are you holding the Universe hostage to your capacity to comprehend it? Most of us carry about our lives as if the mysterious and unfathomable Universe conforms to our concepts and beliefs. If we sincerely explore life, we begin to attract and allow experiences far beyond the limitations of what we can conceive. We all […]

Decades ago I worked with a spiritual teacher who read whatever I was thinking. He would give me practices to do, and leave the building. When he came back he would yell a me for something I was thinking half an hour after he left. For a few months I was on silence, or just […]

Life conditions and circumstances can be excruciating. The spiritually advanced people to whom I have been exposed have not had easy lives. They do not flinch from the hard realities. Neither do they become enmeshed in difficulties. They learn bring peace into the world by cultivating peace internally, in the midst of life. One spiritual […]

From a spiritual perspective, safety is largely a factor of what we identify with. When we identify with things that change, we feel more threatened by change. When what we think we ARE may be eradicated by change, change is frightening. Profound spiritual growth is more threatening than superficial growth. Patterns and personality, likes and […]

Identity is a tar baby. When we punch it we get our mitts stuck. From the point of view of identity, Being differently is subtilely tantamount to a kind of death. Change is considered not being “yourself” any more. Change occurs more smoothly when we do not make it about who we ARE. Simply leaning […]