Blue Mountains, Australia, 2010, I was enrolled in the most dreaded thing on my bucket list—my first Vipassana. Vipassana is a 10-day retreat in which participants take a vow of silence and are strongly encouraged to follow the program’s strict laws which include meditating for at least 10 hours per day, abandoning all communication devices…

  Rumi teaches that we don’t need to look on the outside – we can take ownership of our world – we can decide to create a fertile soil and to plant beautiful seeds so that they may grow –“This Universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already…

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…

“We all exist in multiple universes and create our own bubble of reality.” ~ Gerald O’Donnell It came to me recently that we are so stuck within our little BOX of reality…our little paradigm that says we have a past, present and future and X identity, culture, family (etc). Sound familiar? This is a mistake, an…

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