Bones

Our defenses work by blocking access to our emotions, so they choke off our ability to get to our feelings. We’re going to need to lower our weapons… Every tear not shed is a block. Every protest not spoken sits like a lump in our throat, causing us to lash out inappropriately. These feelings feel like bottomless pits…

Feelings, which are moving energy currents, will change and transf...

One of the subtle bodies that every living being has is called the Higher Self, or divine spark… The higher one’s spiritual development, the faster these vibrations will be… Ever since the Fall of the Angels, our Higher Self has gradually wrapped itself in various invisible layers of more dense matter, Their frequency is somewhere in between the density of the physical body and the Highe...

If we are the Reason Type, we govern our lives primarily using the reasoning process, making us prone to neglecting our emotions. Frankly, we’re afraid of our feelings so we thwart them. In doing so, though, we cripple one of our most important faculties: intuition…

The Emotion Type is equally one-sided. We pride ourselves in being capable of truly feeling. So while we may find it eas...

An important difference between our superficial intellect and our Real Self is that we can direct, manipulate and govern the intellect using our will. We can’t do this with the Real Self. Of the two, the Real Self is the more intelligent one… We are so conditioned to focus on the use of our thinking ability and willpower that we believe we can become ourselves through an act of sheer wil...

There’s just no escaping our knowledge that unpleasantness is possible. It really happens. Our fear of this is ever-present, and that creates a problem for us… So we devise a countermeasure that we falsely believe will circumvent unhappiness, unpleasantness and death: we create an idealized self-image. In short, this is a pseudo-protection that doesn’t work…

There’s a direct correlati...

There are three major divine attributes—love, power and serenity—that in the healthy person work as a team. They maintain flexibility amongst themselves so one never drowns another out… But when they are in distortion, they step all over each other. Then love, power and serenity get distorted into their malevolent counterparts: submission, aggression and withdrawal…

In our efforts to ...

without any limits. In other words, every child’s desire for love is unrealistic… Since they seldom receive an adequate amount of warmth and mature love, children remain hungry for it throughout their whole life… Essentially everyone—even the most diligent spiritual seekers—overlooks just how strong the link is between the unfulfillment of our childhood longings and our present-day probl...

about this thing we call life… Something unfortunate happens—one of the many unavoidable hardships of life—and we make a generalization based on it. Roll things forward a while, and now we have a rock-solid, preconceived idea about the way things are. The only problem is, most of the time our conclusions are wrong…

They are really just our emotional reactions to life’s events. They ar...

Let’s talk about pain. And more importantly, let’s discuss how to dissolve pain… The climate we grew up in affected us—it was like perpetually receiving a minor shock… We suffered and believed our suffering was unchangeable. And this conditioned us to create defenses—highly destructive defenses…

We repressed the original frustration and pain we couldn’t deal with, and we put it out of...

We’re here because this planet is a perfect match for the negativity remaining in us. It offers conditions compatible with our inner landscape… We’re confused about reality, and our mind is full of incorrect concepts…

And wherever confusion prevails, there’s always conflict. Conflicts are split concepts that divide the psyche. They arise when some aspect, inside us, is not in truth. …...

This path is based on the simple law of cause and effect… If we apply these teachings to our lives, they will work for us. There is nothing we must believe… If we want to become capable of experiencing genuine happiness, we must learn how to course-correct back into alignment with spiritual laws…  None of this can happen by merely concentrating on our outer problems. We must look deeper ...

There is one fundamental quality that is the core element of who we are… This means that each one of us have kept a kernel of perfection—our original nature—basically intact in our core essence. Although it’s now covered by the Lower Self and layer upon layer of imperfections…

So we have two missions. One is to sense what our basic light is. The other is to realize how these three fau...

As children, we learned that the highest authority—even higher than our parents—is God. So it’s not a surprise that we bundle up all our painful subjective experiences with the people who say no to us, and put them on God. This is how our God-image gets created…

As children, authority figures were cropping up everywhere. And when they stopped us from doing whatever it was we enjoyed m...

The universe is made up of two main currents: a yes-current and a no-current. The yes-current contains all the good stuff. It aligns with truth and it breeds love and unity. The no-current deviates from truth and is destructive. It breeds hate and disunity… Of the two currents, we tend to spot the yes-current more readily because it is mostly conscious. But then we stumble across some di...

Pain is what results from the conflict created when two creative forces go in opposing directions inside us… Naturally, everyone’s favorite direction is toward the light… But in reality, this is a world in which there are forces that oppose the light…

Take, for instance, the physical level. The entire physical being is striving for health and wholeness. When there’s a disturbance that...

As we gradually make progress on our path, we become more alive and more honest in our feelings and ability to relate. We “sacrifice” old reactive patterns and discover that nothing good has been given up and plenty has been gained. It’s hard to remain skeptical… At some point in our journey, we are going to run into a wall. It’s made up of our previously concealed but now quite consciou...

More whole means more happy. Our goal, then, is to unify our whole selves. We do this by folding in the split-off aspects of the Lower Self that remain in separation… Consider the truth that whatever is inside, no matter how painful it might be, cannot be avoided. Rather, it must be expressed and released… And that is what meaningful meditation is all about…  

Whenever a creative act ...

We’ve become so afraid, though, of taking self-responsibility, our fear of it has become a large part of our abyss. We fear that if we assume self-responsibility, we will fall right in and be swallowed up whole… It seems like a huge danger to let go of our demand to always have our way… We literally fear we’ll be miserable if we have to give up our demand for Utopia…

We can never be h...