Another day, another massacre. An explosion of innocence, as fear spreads to the collective, and darkness falls—there is little escape from the maelstrom. Whether gay, Jewish, Hindu, Western, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or secular, there is always a new target and justification for unjustifiable violence. How can we dance when the sky is burning? Why do…

The mind projects the universe onto the screen of awareness that is consciousness. The mind is a filter of this consciousness, allowing us access to our soul knowledge and higher knowledge of the realms beyond. The sequencing mechanism is the brain and central nervous system.The brain is a physical component of the body whereas the…

Dharma is like karma…it’s unavoidable. The moment you’re born, you’re given an identity—a sex and a gender, a race, a name, a nationality, a religion. You’re even given a surname and status based on the family you’re born into. In the birthing process preceding this moment, you may have been exposed to brutality via well-meaning…

Billions of individual stories have brought us here. There must surely be a pattern, a common thread that ties all of humanity together. If we could unlock an implicate order or system for living, it would show us a method to understand our lives better. Was Kierkegaard mistaken when he posited, “Life must be lived forwards but…

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