Robert Augustus Masters: Spiritual Bypassing
Feb 05
Spiritual bypassing, a term first coined by psychologist John Welwood in 1984, is the use of spiritual practices and beliefs to avoid dealing with our painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs. It is much more common than we might think and, in fact, is so pervasive as to go largely unnoticed, except in its more obvious extremes. Spiritual bypassing is a very persistent shadow of spirituality, manifesting in many forms, often without being acknowledged as such. Aspects of spiritual bypassing include exaggerated detachment, emotional numbing and repression, overemphasis on the positive, anger-phobia, blind or overly tolerant compassion, weak or too porous boundaries, lopsided development (cognitive intelligence often being far ahead of emotional and moral intelligence), debilitating judgment about one's negativity or shadow side, devaluation of the personal relative to the spiritual, and delusions of having arrived at a higher level of being...
Quote: Steven Pinker
Nov 27
"It's been shown that people (both at the level of individuals and of entire societies) who have higher levels of education and measured intelligence commit fewer violent crimes, cooperate more in experimental games, have more classically-liberal attitudes, are less likely to be racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, and are more receptive to democracy." -- Steven Pinker
The Hopping Stone Vision
Nov 16
Deep in the southwest deserts, an old medicine man and young brave stand atop a great plateau. Together they silently survey all the Earth. After what seems like ages of absorbing all that can be seen, the old man taps his medicine stick on the ground. From twelve different directions great streaks of lightning strike the Earth, and from each place the lightning strikes, twelve great stones begin to form. As the stones form, the old man begins to sing an ancient song...
Marc Gafni’s Sexual Impropriety Re-Emerges
Sep 18
"In the past several weeks, new and incontrovertible information came to light that made me aware that Marc was involved in a sexual relationship with a student and that the relationship was shrouded in secrecy. There was an obvious lack of alignment between Marc's words to me and his actions. I learned about Marc's sexual relationship with a student from another woman who was having a sexual relationship with Marc. This woman was also asked by Marc to keep her relationship with him a secret. In talking with this woman, I learned how emotionally damaging this secrecy was for her, how it cut her off from emotional support and connection. I also learned quite a bit about how she felt manipulated by Marc, about how often she witnessed Marc telling lies to cover his tracks, and how upset she was to find herself caught in such a web of lies..." -- Tami Simon, Sounds True
Nassim Haramein: Black Whole
Sep 06
They are some of the biggest questions that baffle humans: how was the universe created? Are we and everything around us somehow connected as one? Why do we have a consciousness and what is its effect on reality? Physicists have spent their careers trying to crack the codes. Albert Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity to explain creation, gravity, and space-time -- but a theory of how everything is unified eluded even him. Building on Einstein's work, Nassim Haramein developed a Unified Field Theory that unveils a specific geometric array to explain creation and the vacuum that connects all things. Is Haramein the first to make this revelation? Remarkably, Haramein found evidence all across the globe in ancient text and tradition -- in Egypt, China and Mexico. He turned to Hebrew scrolls and secret codes to uncover the pattern. Simply put, the evidence has been there for us to recognize for thousands of years...if only we knew what to look for...
Andrew Cohen’s New Book: ‘Evolutionary Enlightenment’
Aug 20
Andrew Cohen’s new book, Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening (SelectBooks, September 2011) is now available to pre-order online...
In Defense of Promiscuity; In Defense Of Chastity
Feb 23
Is sexual attraction driven primarily by the need to wield or submit to power? Or is it primarily a force of nature, hormones, and genetics? Or past life connections and karma? Or a subconscious effort to recreate and heal childhood wounds? Or projection -- we are physically, sexually, emotionally, mentally attracted to others according to how much we have disowned our own light and darkness and projected it onto them? Or...? In yet another attempt to understand the dynamics of this primal force, I have included three articles. The first two are written by Jun Po Denis Kelly who founded the Buddhist Hollow Bones Order. The third article is by Emily Ann Baratta, who is a former Peace Corps volunteer, a practicing Roman Catholic, and a teaching assistant at OneTaste San Francisco. While all three articles are addressed to an integrally-informed audience, I'm sure all of you will catch their drift -- and find them interesting...
Genpo Roshi Admits Affair, Disrobes As Buddhist Priest
Feb 11
Famous Zen Master Genpo Roshi has announced that he is disrobing. For those not acquainted with obscure Buddhist twists on familiar phraseology, to “disrobe” as a Buddhist monk means that you formally quit the Buddhist order and give up your status as a priest and/or monk. Ironically, it was disrobing that got him into trouble in the first place. It seems that Genpo, who is married, had an affair with the woman he was grooming to be his successor...
Net ‘Chatter’ Predicts Packers Will Win Super Bowl
Feb 06
KANSAS CITY, MO - Infegy, the preeminent source for sentiment-driven web and deep social analytics, today released findings that show Packers fans are inching toward a lead, at least in terms of sheer volume of conversation occurring online. That could foretell a victory for Green Bay, if history serves as a guide...
UFO: Stuart Davis Interviews Leslie Kean
Feb 02
Leslie Kean talks with Stuart Davis about her book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record, the result of a ten-year investigation into one of the world's most mysterious (and most marginalized) phemonena. Whether you "want to believe" or you want to roll your eyes at the mere mention of UFOs, we invite you to open your mind, open your heart, and allow yourself to sit in the radical, unknowable Mystery for just a little while. The universe is so much bigger and darker than we can ever imagine...
New TV Series With Peter Russell & Duane Elgin
Jan 23
Duane Elgin and I have created a TV series for Marin TV, entitled "Pete And Duane's WIndow". The first six programs aired at the end of 2010, and the series is now up on the web...
Book: The Integral Vision
Jul 23
The Integral Vision By Ken Wilber Philosopher, psychologist and mystic Wilber (A Brief History of Everything) delivers on the subtitle’s far-reaching promise. In a scant 200+ pages chock-full of handsome illustrations and spare, Zen-like diagrams and tables, he forges ahead on his established path, posing, What if we attempted to find the critically essential keys to human growth, based on...
Book: Integral Life Practice Book
Jul 21
Integral Life Practice Book By Ken Wilber, Terry Patten, Adam Leonard, and Marco Morelli Integral Life Practice (ILP) is not just a new approach to self-development and higher awareness, but a way of making sense of — and making the best use of — the full spectrum of insights, methods, and teachings for cultivating a more open, balanced, and integrated life. ILP condenses East and...
Book: Grace & Grit
Jul 20
Grace & Grit By Ken Wilber Ten days after transpersonal psychologist Wilber married Terry Killam in 1983, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. This harrowing account of her losing battle against disease is unusual in several respects. Killam (who changed her first name to Treya) shared her husband’s belief in the “perennial philosophy” of the world’s wisdom...
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