Strategies for Spiritual Awakening by Bart Marshall
Strategies by Bart Marshall Photo by the author As I turned over all those rocks on my spiritual search, I was always trying out recommendations about what I could do to hurry [...]
Living on Borrowed Time by Art Ticknor
Living on Borrowed Time There’s the big problem of life and the small problem of life. No one knows if they’ll live to see another day. Is there a penalty for dying ignorant of what you really are? That’s the big problem of life. Then there’s the relatively small problem of the [...]
Gauging Realization in Oneself and Others by Bob Cergol
Gauging Realization in Oneself and Others by Bob Cergol http://tatfoundation.org/forum2003-11.htm#3 Most of us have observed in some fashion the capacity for self-delusion in others, and any serious practitioner of self-inquiry has also observed—often with surprise and distress—examples of self-delusion in their own life. So it is understandable that the question arises of how [...]
A Change of Heart by Art Ticknor
“A Change of Heart” There’s a whisper in the wind… Can you hear it calling? Can you make out what it’s saying? There’s a scent on the wind…. Wafting as from another time and place, Stirring faint memory of something long ago. There’s a feeling in the air… Of a lost Eden, Of our original [...]
A Direct Path? by Art Ticknor
A Direct Path? “When the man is ripe for receiving the instruction and his mind is about to sink into the Heart, the instruction imparted works in a flash and he realises the Self all right.” ~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, 5 November 1936, Talk 275 The final act in the play of life [...]
Friendship by Paul Constant
Friendship by Paul Constant Friendship. A word with as much connotation as God, Love, or Enlightenment. What does friendship mean to you, the spiritual seeker? These days, we see many trite statements in books, web sites, and videos that postulate the impossibility of someone helping in your search for Truth because we as seekers and helpers are an illusion. Conversely, some argue [...]
Joseph Campbell
From Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss – Personal Myth. You can think of the world in two ways: one, in the way of separate (light) bulbs and the other, in the way of a general light that shows itself through bulbs. Now, if I look down at the people in the [...]
John Moriarty – Dreamtime
From John Moriarty. Dreamtime. Tridiuum Sacrum Metamorphosis in insects. Tridiuum Sacrum in human beings. In insects, metamorphosis is of two kinds: it is complete or incomplete. In human beings, the Tridiuum Sacrum is of two kinds: it is complete or incomplete. Metamorphosis in insects is a change of form: a catterpillar becomes [...]
