WELCOME! We have another original article for you, a really fine piece by David Lang, who was a friend of Douglas Harding’s, the founder of the Headless Way. David is a longtime, avid proponent of this remarkably effective and freeing method of coming to see truth for ourselves. His presentation here is unique and incredibly […]
A FLOWER IN THE DESERT by DAVID LANG In 1970, when I was 17, my life was turned upside down by a very simple thing: a pointing finger—my pointing finger. I was in an ordinary room with ordinary-looking people, but my finger was pointing at what was extraordinary—indeed (it seemed) impossible: a place where […]
WELCOME! We have a Kenny Johnson double-header today that I know you’re going to enjoy. The story behind this post is pretty funny, so I’ll share it. Some months ago I was emailing back and forth with Chris Hebard of Stillness Speaks, and I mentioned I’d like to get Kenny to be a guest for Awakening […]
THE LAST HUSTLE A True Story By Kenny Johnson As told to Shanti Einolander This book is dedicated to all those incarcerated, whether in prisons of brick and stone or prisons of the mind. If you are earnestly looking inward for the key to eternal freedom, you will be […]
WELCOME. One of my clients is a graphic artist, Rupert Peene, who lives in San Francisco. Rupert has graciously allowed me to use his wonderful frogs as text separators on AC. I’d been looking for something like this, but had no idea what it would be–until I got an email from Rupert with a frog in […]
ORDINARY FREEDOM By Jon Bernie Foreword We do not usually think of ordinariness and spirituality as existing together, and in one sense they do not belong together. If we think that spiritual freedom is something that can fit nicely into our ordinary […]
You Are No Thing by Randall Friend Part 1 – The Search Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something. – Ashtavakra Gita A Summary of a Spiritual Search How did Randall ‘get’ this? How did he […]
WELCOME. Thanks for dropping by. It’s been a busy two weeks, so I want to just jump right in, but let me make one note of appreciation first. Thanks! to the good folks at Non-Duality Press for making me their featured author this month. It’s a real treat, and a high honor. This unit now has my permission […]
Part I AWAKENING TO DEEP ACCEPTANCE The Wholeness of Life The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. MARCEL PROUST The wrinkles on your elderly father’s hands. The cry of a newborn baby. A sculpture in an art gallery. A certain combination of notes in a piece […]
WELCOME. You’ll notice that I’ve changed out the main post on Monday night instead of Thursday night. I’ve done that because today, December 4, is the official announcement day for my new book, Beyond Recovery: Nonduality and the Twelve Steps. My publishers, Julian and Catherine Noyce of Non-Duality Press–bless their daring souls–will be sending out a […]
There is just one thing going on Everything — you, me, the earth and the sky, the flowers and trees, mountains and seas, and all that walks, swims, or flies — constitute just a single, integrally connected, flowing oneness. It is always moving, always morphing, always reshaping itself through endless changes. And the greatest change in history is happening […]
Welcome! We’re glad to have you join us for the 31st edition of our Guest Teacher Series. Richard Bates is a full time locksmith and part time writer who’s written a terrific main post for us, and whose book, The World Is My Mirror, is our First Chapter Preview. Do forgive the pun, but I […]
The World Is My Mirror by Richard Bates The Game Furrowed brow To furrowed frown I’ll choose my move I’ll usurp your crown All is set Let the games commence Check the rules And make it tense The appearance of heat The first glimpse of fire Look at me now Let our faces retire Touch […]
FULL STOP! The Gateway to Present Perfection by John Wheeler Resonance All pointers converge on a central theme. This is the simple truth of what we are, the essential and inescapable reality that shines behind the doubtless sense of being present and aware. No one can say ‘I am not’, as the very statement presupposes […]
WELCOME TO THE TWENTY-NINTH EDITION of the Awakening Clarity Guest Teaching Series. There’s another opportunity 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 HOPE YOU DIE SOON Word on Non-Duality by Richard Sylvester Introduction The most common misconception about liberation is that it is something an individual can gain. But liberation is a loss—the loss of the sense that there ever was a separate individual who could choose to do something to bring about liberation. When it […]
WELCOME to the twenty-eight edition of our Guest Teaching Series.The GTS has propelled Awakening Clarity into becoming one of the web’s leading sites of contemporary Nonduality. Readership has exploded in the last year, and we now reach over 100 countries–we added three more just this week. Our recently implemented makeover has met with tremendous approval, and […]
THE HEAVENLY BACKFLIP Seeing and Being the Unfigureoutable by J. C. Amberchele LOOK! Sometimes I want to stop the first person I see and shout, LOOK! LOOK! Isn’t this MIRACULOUS? But of course they’d think I was crazy and step around me and hurry on their way. But no matter, no matter, I say, for […]
WELCOME TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH EDITION OF OUR GUEST TEACHING SERIES. First off, let me say how pleased I am that you’ve shown so much interest in our two newest features, the First Chapter Preview, and the new Beyond Recovery blog. Both did very well over the last couple of weeks. We’re introducing something fresh for this fortnight that […]
NOTHING TO GRASP by Joan Tollifson No matter what state dawns at this moment, can there be just that? Not a movement away, an escape into something that will provide what this state does not provide, or doesn’t seem to provide: energy, zest, inspiration, joy, happiness, whatever. Just completely, unconditionally listening to what’s here now, […]