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Coming Home to the Infinite Within You

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Life is change for the human being. It's always growing, declining, dying, and being born. It is an inevitable aspect of life for us. Yet many people attempt to use spirituality to avoid this undeniable human truth. They hope to find some form of safe comfort in the external world, and thus, many spiritual seekers are essentially refugees from this truth. This happens for innumerable reasons, but mainly, it happens because people fear pain and death.But pain and death are here. And no "home" can be …

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Fundraising: Donate to Help Cover my Costs

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I want to send a heartfelt “thank you” to all the people who have donated to me this year. Because of you, I have been able to dedicate my full time to working as a spiritual teacher for most of the year.Woohoo!All of your donations for meditation recordings, sessions, ebooks, weekend intensives, webinars, and goodwill donations have added up. You’ve given me the gift to be able…

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A Short Spiritual Thought: Spiritual Redemption

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Spiritual awakening and spiritual growth remind us that no matter where someone has been or how difficult the path, they can grow and change to be happier, healthier, and kinder people. There is no depth of darkness to which people can sink from which they cannot arise again, and this is very good news. It is the nature of the Divine to never reject any one of us, and ultimately, we are all in this together.However, sometimes society pigeon-holes people, and people can feel trapped by all their past transgressions. Even after they’ve done a lot of personal growth or even awakened, past mistakes or gross errors (murder, rape, etc.) can haunt a person. To …

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Sessions for January, Coming Home, and Thank You’s!

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I'll start this spirituality post with my sincerest "thank you's" to everyone who has offered support to me in some way since the apartment complex fire that took me into a new major life transition. It has truly warmed my heart to have support from so many. That includes the friend who has taken me in to his home…

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Spirituality Snacks: Ego Stories

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I occasionally receive extremely long emails from people telling me their whole life stories. While I am honored that people can be so open with me, it can be disappointing for some of them that I am uninterested in those tall tales. Because it is a tall tale. Our ego stories are conglomerations of very few events while we have forgotten numerous other events and situations that have not fit into our overall idea of ourselves. For instance, trauma survivors sometimes forget or…

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Webinar: Holiday Giving and Receiving

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As the holidays roll around once again in the Western world, the practice of giving and receiving comes to the forefront of everyone’s minds. Why we need one season in a year to focus on reciprocity is a little silly though. The entire year is an opportunity to give and receive selflessly and deeply. But cultural practices being what they are, people remember that giving and receiving is something that they should put time and focus into in November and December in Western Culture. So I’ll discuss this practice in this next free webinar to help shed some light on ways we can mindfully give and receive as well as offer tips on dealing with feeling obligated to give, not liking what we receive, and so…

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2015 Fundraising Update

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I want to start this post by thanking all of you who have donated to me so far for my 2015 fundraiser. At the time of writing this post, 31 people have donated a total of a little over $2,100 to help me cover this year’s financial shortfall. Thank you so much! It really warms my heart to have such amazing supporters.For those who don’t know, I’m working on raising $6,500 to cover a financial deficit that I’ll have this year. With the current donations being where they are, I still need about $4,400 more in donations.This money…

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Out of Touch Due to an Apt Complex Fire

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I’m posting this quick blog post to let you know that I’ve lost my home due to an apartment complex fire. You can see part of what happened to my apartment.Most importantly, I am unhurt, and a good friend is letting me stay in his guest house. But a lot of my possessions have been smoke-damaged or contaminated by whatever may have been burned during the fire. So I’ll need to replace them after finding a new home.Please expect a delay in my communications and responses to your emails. If you want to help

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Webinar: Spiritual Awakening and New Sensitivities

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As people awaken or generally shift on their spiritual paths, they often have new sensitivities to life. In truth, this is part of the un-numbing and re-sensitization process. People have been so numb and out of touch with themselves that they can barely feel. If this is your general state of living, then that lack of sensitivity becomes "normal….

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A Spiritual Appetizer: The Trap of Spiritual Ideas

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Words and ideas are tools tell help us express ourselves on the spiritual path. They should not be our masters and constrict our ability to understand life or ourselves. The spiritual path shows us that words and ideas simply point to things. They are not the things that they point to. I can write about “oneness,” but that word is not the totality of oneness. It is an idea.Too often people get stuck hanging onto ideas or searching for the best ones. This is particularly problematic on the spiritual path. Many religions and spiritual traditions tell people what to believe and what to do. In…

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Spiritual Small Bites: Doubt

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Doubt is one of the great absurdities of the ego. I’m not talking about doubting ideas and conjecture. There are lots of ways that questioning the words of another are important with so many people speaking falsities and half-truths.No, I’m talking about when doubt arises in the face of what you are actually experiencing. I’m talking about how people doubt their own truth and their own pain.For instance, a powerful memory re-emerges, and the person doesn’t want to believe it. When someone remembers repressed childhood trauma, it often upsets their ideas of their family life, who their parents and siblings are, …

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Webinar: Natural Spiritual Growth and the Calming of Awakening

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The intensities of the initial spiritual awakening can be many and destabilizing, and that's to be expected when people have been living lives so cut off from their truth, kindness, and love. The rush of your own divine energy in the space created by awakening takes many off guard, shaking up their whole world. Most just want to get this whole thing over with. Very few embrace it, but to those who do, a great gift …

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A Spiritual Awakening Morsel: The Awakened Turning Point

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The awakened turning point is a sacred moment when someone moves from being in resistance to their inner growth to embracing it. It often comes as someone finally has enough perspective on who they were to see the depth of unhappiness or out-right misery that they’d been living in. This is vital because most …

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Spiritual Sound Bites: Alive and Natural Relationships

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For the next couple of months, I’ll be scaling back the length of my posts into these short spiritual sound bites. I’m focusing most of my writing energy on writing a second book, so for the time being, I hope you enjoy the plethora of spiritual awakening posts that are already on this site as well as these quick spiritual thoughts.Alive …