Dispatches from Beyond the Dream
This morning, while thumbing through my brand new copy of Buddha on a Bull (one of the most startlingly honest books on enlightenment out there) I landed on this: “Our minds have a lot of ideas of what an awakened human being looks like. But what if your teacher is not ….a vegetarian? … doesn’t […]
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Some of you know that I am an astrologer, not only a writer about awakening. Lately I have been noticing how the transits of outer planets impact our awareness of truth, particularly the planet Neptune. To be clear, I am not saying any planet is a causal agent. What planets seem to be in relationship […]
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I’m sitting in an airy room in Costa Rica, bird song wafting through the open windows along with a warm breeze. The sound of a spiritual teacher answering questions from his seat up front is just a part of the mandala of beauty that is this moment. The day wears on. I am without questions. […]
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Let’s face it. Everyone wants to jump aboard the magic carpet ride of manifestation, prophecy, telepathy, miracle healing and mind-bending synchronicity. These are wonder hits, the unicorns of life that—when encountered—fire up a burst of gratitude, delight and joy. What these amazing phenomena also do is slam dunk you back home, to the you that […]
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It’s that moment where you realize you just might have not only woken up in the dream, but from it. Symptoms: 1. Nothing on the menu of self development and spiritual growth matters. Cause you know the self that is tinkering with self improvement is not real. 2. Everything you do matters because you are […]
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Have you ever had one of those nocturnal dreams where you are convinced you just got out of bed and made a cup of coffee but for some reason the coffee tastes like nothing and the clock on the wall is unreadable? And then your lucid dreamer mind kicks in and you go, “oh shit, […]
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In the seven years since an overnight spiritual awakening catapulted me into a surreal peace with a months-long afterglow—followed by years of increasing hyper-synchronicity, mini-miracles and rare but intense episodes of suffering—I have learned two true things: Nothing is static, especially enlightenment. And awakening to true nature does not mean liberation from the personality (and […]
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Lately time seems to be acting strangely. For one, time compression seems to be increasing — you know that thing where time flies, even when you are not having fun. I can’t count the occasions in recent weeks where I have been stunned to find my perception of passing time completely out of touch with […]
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Billy Graham died yesterday which is remarkable —not because the man lived to the ancient age of 99, but because in the memory of some people, this is his third death or more already. To them, this famous American evangelical pastor died in the fall of 2017, 2012, or 2009 and even earlier This situation […]
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