Heart-centered awareness is the first step in shifting our state of consciousness into the openness of experience and finding acceptance for what is. As discussed in previous posts, when the ego defends, we are still in a fight-or-flight response mode and have locked ourselves into old patterns of thinking and behaving. There are two ways...
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Violence and Transcendence- Part III
In the previous two parts of this article, I discussed the power of the culture to keep the mind in a fight-or-flight response so that we use only the smallest part of our brain in situations that may bring up the insecurities that exist within, in essence creating a “counterfeit transcendence” function. Who would have...
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A Spiritual Life Versus An Easy One
One of the questions I am frequently asked concerns having a spiritual practice, and whether such a practice can help a person live a good life versus operating mostly from an unconscious state and living what appears to be a good life. Diane Sawyer brought this subject up recently in an interview, on the Oprah...
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