Welcome Home! I want to tell you about Attention Practice. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, then you know I’ve been talking about something I was calling The Attention Narrative. The more that I worked with that, the more it morphed from being a means of investigation to be used and discarded into […]
Self-realization is the most amazing thing that can happen. When it happened here, I was totally, electrically excited, and anxious to share my good fortune with you. Of course one of the reasons I was anxious to share it was so that you could bear witness to my good fortune. What’s the use of being […]
Photoshopped Photo by Roland Jackman, my friend and web guru. He had surgery this past week. They could find his gall bladder, but no one spotted a “Roland.” Hello, everybody. I’ve gotten several emails asking for client feedback on the Asheville Clarity Weekend, and this is in response to that. It also serves another […]
NEWS ITEMS Before we get to our post, let me run a few announcements up the flagpole. We’ve gotten good response from the announcement on the next meetings in May. If this is something you want to participate in, don’t wait until the last minute. We had a number of people who couldn’t get into […]
Hello, everybody! We had quite an exciting weekend in Asheville NC, and I want to share the news. Our venue was in the incredible mountain home of my friend and client, Barbara Hearne. She and an architect friend designed it together, and it is to die for. A wide, steel and wood stairwell takes you […]
NEWS NOTES Many of you know Eleonora Gilbert from Conscious TV. Well, strictly for the dreaded and outlawed purpose of self-promotion in Nonduality, I’d like to mention that she and I had a very successful Awakening Session together about two weeks ago. A week later we had a quite pleasant and helpful Clarity Session. Just […]
I have a confession to make. I was a lousy seeker. I was such a sub-par seeker. Oh, the shame of it! For much of my seeking career I was a chain smoking, hard drinking, heavy gambling, sexually distorted plain old every day guy. I knew I should be […]
Walking through the Gateless Gate is the most important shift that we will ever undergo in our lives. However, that’s not the same thing as saying it’s the most important movement. That status belongs to the process of clearing. Granted, we can’t completely clear up until we consciously wake up, so everything has its place […]
Anyone who’s spent any session time with me knows how I love to use a yin-yang symbol as a prop. In my opinion it’s the greatest teacher on the planet, and it’s never said a word. And any of you who’ve been in my home know that I’m a fool for cats. So when I […]
Let me quickly say to those of you who are Jonesing for another video, I’m going to take care of that just as soon as I can. I’ve been busy with meditation, jogging with Willy in the cemetery, and even working out with my dumbbells for the first time in a l-o-n-g time. I’m going […]
Once in a while I get a particularly great thank-you letter from a client, and I’ll ask if I can run it as a testimonial. Robert Sandman sent me one a little while back, and I wrote to see if I could use it. He said he’d write a formal testimonial instead. This is it. […]
“Our body is our temple. We should therefore respect it, understanding its importance and always return to it; it is our refuge.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh Hello, everyone, and welcome back! Today I’m going to tell you about a conversation I had with a client of mine during a Clarity Session that ended just minutes […]
Friedrich Roelli is a friend and client of mine who lives in Colombia, South America. Friedrich first contacted me last October. He wanted to have an Awakening Session followed by a series of Clarity Sessions, which we have now completed. Friedrich is an interesting guy. He’s very smart and very funny–he used to be a […]
Hello, everybody! Before we get into the new post, let me say a word about the site’s new look. Many of you doubtlessly noticed in the past week that we were having difficulties with the old theme. I’m pretty sure that the problem at the bottom of that was me! I’m not a coder, but […]
ASHEVILLE, NC Awakening Now Workshop Saturday, March 29 2:00-4:30 Approximately 2.5 hours – $75 Prepaid only. THERE ARE STILL OPENINGS FOR THE SUNDAY CLARITY GATHERING, BUT THE SATURDAY WORKSHOP SOLD OUT A MONTH AHEAD OF TIME. ASSUMING THIS EVENT IS AS SUCCESSFUL FOR ATTENDEES AS WE THINK IT WILL BE, WE’LL BE HOLDING […]
If you’ve already watch the sister video to this one, ‘On Non-Doership’, then you’ve got things pretty well figured out. Which is precisely why I’m now knocking the smithereens out of those very concepts! If you have not watched the other video, I strongly recommend that you do so when you get through with this […]
Non-doership. We hear this term a lot in Nondual circles. What do people really mean by it? It is true? Is it true at all levels? What’s really going on here? There are few things more confusing–or debilitating–than having wrong-headed ideas about non-doership. This is simply some straight talk on it. There’s no one doing […]
It’s not particularly unusual for me to stop a session and have a have a heart-to-heart talk with my client. People who have been around spirituality a long time often think they know a lot about enlightenment: what it really is, how it should show up for them, what that experience will be like, and […]
Hello, everybody! This is an open letter more than a post. I had an amazing Awakening Session on Saturday that has potentially changed the whole trajectory of this teaching. Two women, close friends with each other, came down to see me from Asheville, NC. They wanted to try an Awakening Session where I attempted […]
One of the most confusing parts of post-awakening is coming to terms with these two concepts. It’s bad enough prior to awakening when we’re simply reading, and pondering about these things. After an “experience” of the Absolute, however, it gets much worse! Now we have seen for ourselves that there is nobody home. Even so, […]