Category: Consciousness

Hard truths

Have you ever stopped to wonder how many people it took just so you could be in a position to be able to read these words? Have you ever wondered about the choices other people made in their lives which have in some way influenced you and your life?

Navigating a fragmented life

One of the biggest misconceptions we have about life is that we assume that life is complete. Life is never ever complete. Life is a never ending process or sequence of random happenings, events, conflicts, puzzles, things which don't fit neatly together and contradictions. The tools we have to understand life are insufficient, memory, language and intellect. So how do we navigate this experience we call life?

The rape of Mother Nature Essay

I am a staunch conservative. To those who know me this might come as a surprise, but in terms of ecology and environmental issues, and on account of being a shaman, I am a conservative. If plants and trees had human rights I would be speaking out in defence of them, which is what I'm doing here. So let's start by assuming that plants and trees have human rights.

The mystical experience

A few people have asked me to write about the mystical experience. This I am willing to do of course, but to understand the mystical experience for what it is we need to understand what reality is. This is what I want to get into in this post so if you read this you should get an insight into both reality and also the mystical experience.

Complexity in obesity

This is a post about obesity and the complexity of obesity as a health issue. Forget about the simplistic platitude 'eat less, exercise more' because that's not going to help you lose weight. Obesity is a complex medical issue and there's a hard truth about obesity which doesn't get said often enough. If you're looking to lose weight you're going to have to investigate and you're going to have to pay attention to relationships. Let's get into some of the variables you need to be thinking about.

War

Sleep is generally regarded as a good thing. We all need to sleep. But it is also extremely important in life not to be so asleep that your life is a failure. But what has this got to do with war?

Fields and dimensions

Someone asked me to write about mind over matter. Okay. But in order to understand mind over matter we need to understand fields and dimensions, or rather, dimensions and fields. Once you understand what dimensions and fields are then you should be able to understand something about mind over matter.

My way or the highway?

This is another post about free will and personal agency or responsibility. Just to make it interesting and yet clear I'm going to start with an old Frank Sinatra song sung by Elvis Presley... the song is of course titled 'My way'.

The Texas Example

Today we're going to be looking at capital punishment in Texas as an example of how believing in free will completely skews your perception and your understanding of reality. Much of what I'm about to write applies equally to the Western WASP cultural concept of criminal justice, but Texas makes a good example because we can see how murder perpetuates murder leaving behind nothing but victims.

Capitalism and democracy

As this is a year of elections for many people reading this I feel it's worth getting into the dilemma of voting in an election, which brings most people face to face with an conflict between the natural and the ideological. Many people seem to have this idea that voting in an election is preferable to not voting and that if you do not vote then you have no 'right' to complain about the system. Okay then, so what is the benefit of voting?

Just how much is everything predetermined?

Today we're going to look at determinism and think about the question about how much everything is pre-determined. I'm going to start with the example of football, as it's March, close to the end of the football season in May. There's a lot of discussion about which teams are going to win the title, which teams are going to be relegated from their divisions, and - from those divisions lower than the Premier League - which teams are going to get promoted.

The mystical transaction

For weeks I've been wanting to write about mind over matter, which a few people have asked me to. But it's difficult to write about mind over matter without also writing about neural plasticity and what neural plasticity is all about. Therefore I'm going to write about the mystical transaction which involves both mind over matter and also neural plasticity.

Your life is code

I've previously stated that there is no such thing as either free will or determinism. Okay so if there is no free will and no such thing as determinism, then what is there? This is quite simple. You are a highly complex but programmable individual experiencing life as an experience of an environment, biology and relationship. So what is it that determines the exact nature and outcome of your life? Quite simply, it's code.

An example of being messed up in the head

I rarely write about news and current affairs, but today I make an exception. Following on from my previous post 'Things which mess you up in the head' a news story broke which provides a very clear example of what it means to be messed up in the head. I'm referring to the story involving Tory donor Frank Hester's comments about Labour MP Diane Abbott, Britain's first black female politician. So we're going to take an opportunity to examine what it means to be messed up in the head within the context of racism.

Things which mess with your head

Let's start with some basic premises. There is no such thing as free will or the power of choice. Determinism is an illusion. Life is nothing more than an experience of biology and an environment. There are certain beliefs which you are convinced through social conditioning to be reality when they're not. Therefore there are beliefs which mess with your head. This is what we're going to be thinking about in this post.

One in five

This is another post inspired by one of my social media posts on Reddit. This was in response to the question "What is a ticking time bomb that very few people are aware of?'. I gave another simple answer 'societal collapse', but qualified this response by what I'm going to write about today in this post.

The monkey on your back

What I'm going to write about today was originally intended to be a post on the social media platform Reddit in response to the question "What do people do the hard way because they don't know the easy way?" I came up with a one word answer - relationships.

Thought and consciousness

Today I want to get into something which is probably a great deal simpler than we make it out to be - the differences between thought, thinking and consciousness. All these three things are different from one another.

Love and reincarnation

Energy and consciousness are equal to one another in the same way as karma is always equal to reincarnation. This means that karma is always equal to love, truth, beauty, and courage. At the top of the pyramid of human living existence all these things become one.

The paradox of greed and selfishness

In this post we're going to look at the paradox of greed and selfishness. Hopefully by the end of this post you will see how when distorted by separateness greed and selfishness can be powerfully destructive to both society and the environment. But hopefully also you will see how both greed and selfishness can be transformed into a basis for both spiritual and social liberation.

The tower of 10,000 things

So moving on from Kabbalah numerology and Jewish mysticism of my previous post what I want to write about today is an important aspect of mysticism, mystical awareness and the journey back to mindfulness. What I want to write about is essentially the limitations of the process of individuation, individual human experience, human knowledge so that we understand the significance of sharing our humanity and our stories, but in a way which connects us to other people.

Where there is Ego, there is fear

It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter what your background is, your social status or 'position' in life, your Ego, identity, personality or self-image is a compromise in a long standing conflict between self and other...

Karma and death

In the above image you see someone holding a candle in their hands. This post is directly relative to the five dimensions of living existence (please see What are the five dimensions of life? in the FAQs) and how they go together.

Heaven and hell

Many of us are afraid of death. There's a lot of speculation, much of which comes from the culture developed by religious authority, about what happens to us when we die. But dying can be as natural as living and as I'm back on my home territory I will write about what death is really all about and also what lies behind the concepts of heaven and hell.

Abuse of energy

Let's start with something that concerns me. When I leave someone after having done some shamanistic work with them, having centred someone and helped them find a perspective of relative equilibrium, I often wonder how they're going to use their new found energy. I try to make meetings and such pleasant simply because being pleasant promotes open-mindedness and a certain mental and emotional flexibility.

The between space

Let me start this blog post with a situation you might be familiar with. You know two people but these two people for some reason don't get along with one another. They're not speaking. They hate each other. Whatever. But either way you're caught up in the middle of their conflict or spat so that they can only interact with each other through you. Have you ever been in this situation?

The Dao of Nature

Ego is the impediment of Dao. If you care what other people think, if you care about how something is going to impact on your reputation, if you have concerns about any lesser issues, then you are inaccessible to the Dao. Being inaccessible to the Dao separates you from Nature.

Within you, without you

Is life an experience you're participating in? Is life something that you do? Or is life simply an ability you possess? How would you personally define life?

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