This video asks you to question why you are seeking for spiritual fulfillment in the first place? Do you really know why you feel so compelled to seek. I describe my own discovery of the …
Your Gift To Give
In this video I describe spiritual abundance as the state in which we perpetually recognize the inherent fullness of life. When we cultivate spiritual abundance we develop an inner tendency to notice all that is …
Deep Meditation and The Passion of an Artist of Possibility
When your meditation becomes deep and steady what you find is that you flicker in and out of remembering that you are meditating. You will be meditating for a while, deliberately following the instructions, and then you will remember that you are meditating and realize that you had forgotten what you were doing for a few minutes.
Not the Dancer but the Dance You Are: A Wormhole Inquiry
In the current paradigm we are compelled by things. We look at things, work with things, accumulate things, and love things. Things are material, i.e. they matter. Things are the stuff of life. We have …
Freedom of Imagination
In 1817 the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described “the willing suspension of disbelief” as an act of “poetic faith” through which a reader accepts fanciful aspects of a fictional work. Without this willingness the …
Are you a Romantic? You are if…
In the late eighteenth century a literary and philosophical movement called Romanticism began. This movement was the emergence of a new consciousness in part spurred by the failings of the European Enlightenment. It lived in …
The Source of Creativity in the Universe
The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce believed that the universe was evolving – the whole universe, not just the things in it. He believed that the universe itself, including the seemingly immutable laws of time, …
Contact, Concept and Art
We live in a reality constructed of contact and concept. The world reveals itself to us in a stream of sensation. We see colors, shapes, lines, shades of light and dark. We hear sounds shrill …
Art, Culture and Alfred North Whitehead
The art scene in New York in the fifties was a living hotbed for a new way of thinking and new conceptions about reality. Avant-garde painters, writers, musicians and more, were infused with a new …
Art and the Evolution of Consciousness
Did you know that American Avant-Garde painters, writers and musicians in the 1950’s were inspired by evolutionary philosophy? I just completed a weekend program with a group that I co-teach called The Evolutionary Collective and …
From the Enlightenment to the Romantic Revolution
For a time the rationality of the Enlightenment seemed to hail the final triumph of human reason. Soon the laws that operated behind the universe would all be known and humakind would be able to …