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, […]
Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them. At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned […]
For those of you who don’t know of, Shunryu Suzuki-Roshi was a rare jewel. I’ll quote Wikipedia here: “Shunryu Suzuki was a Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, and is renowned for founding the first Buddhist monastery outside Asia.” That doesn’t come close to doing him […]
One of the things that happens to us in the wake of realization is that ego secretly rebuilds in the guise of a wise person. As you might imagine, it happened to me. Wherever there is a pitfall for arrogance, you can bet I’ve found it–and may yet find it again! In this […]
Can we confess that many of us are waiting for the Enlightenment Fairy? She’s the one who’s going to set us free with a mere touch of her magic wand, known in mystic circles as the Grace Wand. We are sure she’s coming, and she’s probably coming soon. After all, as special as we […]
Welcome! Thanks for visiting Awakening Clarity Now, whether you’re a newbie or an old hand. If you are new, let me say by way of introduction that this is a discovery website. We are not seeking here so much as we are finding, and then together we’re exploring that which we find—Our True Nature. Most […]