I’ve been getting lots of questions lately about dealing with sickness, in relation to the message I share on this site. Some of the questions seem to be coming from confusion over the distinction I make between “what you are”, and “how to be.” (I draw that distinction strongly in this video.) I’d like to ...…
As I’ve brought up before, it seems to me that we live in two realms simultaneously. The “how to be” realm and the “what you are” realm. It also seems to me that it’s possible to see the world through both of those lenses. Of course, when we first are born, the “how to be” ...…
I’ve gotten some cool questions over the past few weeks though replies to my email updates from the site, the little question box near the bottom of the sidebar, and from social media sites. I made this short film to answer one of the frequent ones that seems central to the matter at hand. I ...…
Time for another awesome interview! Today’s interview is with Christine Wushke, of innerlightyoga.blogspot.com. We had a lot of fun with this interview, not least because it took us about 3 weeks to line up! (It’s taken me a few weeks to actually get it up on the site too. Life is funny that way, isn’t ...…
Shot a brief video, off the cuff, to explain why I do the interviews with people who have woken up. As I explain in the video I talk about this reasoning with the people I interview, but it’s usually in the pre-interview banter and it ends up on the cutting room floor. I realized it’s ...…
Today I have another interview with people who have woken up. This one is with Paul Hedderman, of zenbitchslap.com. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did doing it. I have had the chance to go to a few meetings with Paul since he is in the Bay Area. He gives talks ...…
Ramana said, “Anything that is not present in the deep sleep state, is not real.” That has sat as a koan for me, for a long time. I was stuck on the Vedanta conception of the three (or, four, or five, depending on what Vedanta tradition you want to look from) states of being – ...…
Very excited today to kick off the interviews portion of this site! Today’s interview (originally recorded on October 24th, 2011) is with Richard Lang, from headless.org. Please give a listen and then check out Richard’s site. You won’t be disappointed! You can also check out the fabulous community at the Facebook No-Facebook Group. Cheers! You ...…
One of the biggest issues (it seems to me) that gums up the work for people’s pursuing awakening to what they really are is a confusion that stems, in my opinion, from the “what you are” vs the “how to be” distinction. It’s a combination of thinking that working on “how to be” will make ...…
Let me just say at the get-go that I am very much anti-reductionsim of any sort. I do not believe that reality is simply a matter of interacting and inter-reacting “things.” I do believe that is what happens on the gross physical level, but I also believe that lot of what is going on is ...…
