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Those who see themselves as whole make no demands. ~A Course in Miracles

Here’s a quick, funny story. One evening this week Betsy told me about a guy she’d heard on NPR talking about ISIS. He’d “written an article somewhere.” I told her I’d seen something about it in the news, and that his article was in this month’s The Atlantic magazine. I told her I wanted to […]

I have a couple of local people who come see me once a month for a not-satsang. We don’t know what it is; we just talk. Yesterday one of them brought up this comedian/writer/YouTube personality named Russell Brand. I know a bunch of you already know about him, particularly the younger set. I am A) […]

“Ultimate reality is thought thinking itself.”   “All men by nature desire to know.”   “The only way to avoid criticism is to say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”   ~Aristotle Greek Philosopher, 384-322 B.C.E.

    “As our soul, being air, holds us together, so do breath and air surround the whole universe.” ~Anaxagoras Greek philosopher, 500-428 B.C.E.

1. “As seekers, we want to experience Oneness objectively.” [Quote from an ACN post, and used here by the questioner as a set-up to their query.] Q: Since the mind is an object, and the concept of knowing is an object, the idea that we can “know in this moment” that we are awake might […]

 One of the questions I get regularly, and which I consistently ask of myself is “What’s really going on here? Who’s doing this or that–little me or Big I? This question seems to make sense, and on one level it does. I try to watch out for egoic action on the part of Fredness that […]

Fred, Wanted to send you an update.  After our meeting, there sure seemed to be a bit of an explosion of the John unit.  What was so interesting though after such a vast awakening experience was the direct and at times hilarious discovery that the unit is not the one waking up here.  As you put beautifully – John never woke […]

More and more people are coming to me who have had an “awakening experience” at some time in the past, whether a month ago or forty years ago, but who now know—or strongly suspect—that they are not presently awake. No individual is ever awake, including this one, but in recall it may feel like he […]

  Site News Brief Please excuse my tardiness in putting up a new article on Awakening Clarity Now. I’ve been busy with physical therapy following my surgery, and my teaching practice continues to be rather demanding as well. Today, for instance, is the only “day off” I’m taking this week, and I notice I’m writing […]

[Update 2.7.15] I’m betting that I’m going to be talking more about this client in the future. We’ve finished our third session now, and there is great clarity and humor. ~ Dearest Fred, Thank You, a million Thank You’s! Thank You for your presence, I feel truly blessed  It’s been an honour to talk to […]

  I had a session with a young man outside of Chicago today. He’s been involved in Buddhism and Nonduality for the last three years. He became one of those desperate seekers, someone like I was, who had to have it or bust. In our pre-session talk he told me that he’d talked to a […]

The greatest pleasure in my experienced life is watching that experience being taken over by Awakeness. This is the process of embodiment, and it comes when it comes, as it comes, and Fredness’ opinions hold absolutely no sway whatsoever. The best I can do, all I can do, is be willing for it to happen. […]

A direct transmission outside of scriptures, apart from tradition Without dependence upon words or letters. A direct pointing to mind. Seeing into one’s nature and awakening. ~Bodhidharma  

Suffering is the most common denominator in spiritual circles. It’s not that we suffer more than ordinary people, it’s simply that we’ve noticed our suffering, and are thus drawn into the search for a solution. This is a nearly universal pull all around the world, regardless of culture, background, or physical circumstances. People find solace […]

Hey, everybody! Just a note that two or three weeks ago I accidentally unlisted my last 30 videos. One of my viewers, Blake Salem, had to notify me TWICE before I got it. They were still showing as existing, so when he wrote the first time I thought the error was his. Ain’t that ever […]

Hello, everybody. I’m pleased to tell you that my surgery went very well. They went into my right elbow on a Wednesday, and I held my first post-surgery session on Saturday afternoon, so it’s clear that my recovery is going really well. As part of that recovery, I have to do a few weeks of […]

Hello, everybody. I was trying to write a post on an entirely different topic, when the opening line to this post popped into my head. It wouldn’t leave me alone, so I went ahead and wrote it down to look at it later, but it wouldn’t let me walk away. It beckoned to the point […]

  Here’s an opportunity for you to see and hear about the scientific side of consciousness research that I want to share with you.  After an email exchange with Nick Day at the University of Arizona Center Consciousness Studies, I received a large packet of DVDs aptly named The Consciousness Chronicles.  I’ve been watching them […]

Sometimes we can get so caught up in the “big picture” of our spiritual journey that we overlook living what we already know in the relative “little picture” of our day to day lives. So let’s back up a little bit. Putting the ultimate reality of relativity aside for a moment, we can notice that […]