I’m sure you’ve heard the argument a hundred times before – your spiritually aware, new-age-leaning, gentle hippie friend says “Ah, but it’s all perfect!” And sooner than you can allow yourself to contemplate that, your other friend, a self-proclaimed pragmatist, an undying realist, shouts: “But how can you say that?! With all the war, and…
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When you’re on the spiritual path and faced with the ego and individuality, it’s helpful to differentiate between differentiation and separation. Move beyond the separation, but not beyond individuality.
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While chatting with an old friend the other day, she was expressing how wonderful it is to have so much knowledge so readily available to us these days – especially pertaining to life and the bigger picture. She was quick to add, though, that this often leads to information overload, and leaves her at a…
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There was a time when I turned away from the world of money in favour of following a spiritual path. I spent a few years in India as a contemplative monk, and engaged in deep philosophical enquiry into life. I wanted nothing more… But there was no escaping the world of money! Life in this…
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With value all around us, and most especially within us, the current (manipulated, monopolised, oppressive) monetary system places value on only a small spectrum of our world – just like visible light compared to the entire spectrum of light. Value goes beyond precious metals, fossil fuels and products, and time, and services. There’s value in…
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Each of us is like a relay station in a massive communication network. Humanity speaking to itself! We create thoughts, convey them, change them along the way, or delete them. Every now and then you come across a truth articulated so clearly, that you feel compelled to spread it. That’s how I felt when I…
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I generally steer away from using the word God, as it has become a tarnished and very misunderstood word. But today I find it necessary to use the word to discuss this topic. Some people say that our purpose in life is to serve God. Indeed some religions teach this. This suggests that God is…
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If you’ve been aware of what’s grabbing our collective human interest in the past few years, you’d see that amongst new technology, the climate crisis and political developments, there has been a whole lot of focus on manifesting, and conscious creation. Unless you’ve been a hermit or living under a rock for a while you…
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One of my “Emerging Insights” newsletter articles was entitled: “Ferrari ride into the light” the basic message was that in the pursuit of your desires, you could become more aware of your powers of creation and manifestation, and in the process grow into more self-awareness, which is the same as spiritual development. On the surface…
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Currently, most of us on the planet still hold the idea that God, the creator of all this world, created the world as distinct and separate from ‘the creator himself’, at the beginning of time, and then left it alone. We see ourselves and this whole physical world as the ‘the created’, and quite separate…
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