You could say that creative illumination is a kind of spiritual magic, a word that still carries the blemish given to it during the Middle Ages when the Christian church in Europe discredited it as …
The Gifts of a More Highly Developed Soul
In order to practice creative illumination we must liberate ourselves from the limitations of our materialistic conditioning. We’ve been taught that we live in an infinite expanse of three dimensional space. This vast ocean of …
The Individual and Collective Soul
In the first essay in this series I introduced the process of creative illumination and as I see it, this can best be understood as the soul’s journey to wholeness. I outlined the contours of …
Inner Freedom and Creative Illumination
When I teach I always emphasize that there are two equally essential aspects of spiritual work – the attainment of inner freedom, and the art of creative illumination. On the spiritual path we must first …
The Paradox of Power and Surrender
In my last essay, I explained that a powerful and positive sense of self is crucial on the path to awakening and it is equally important for the continued journey of conscious evolution after awakening. …
Personal Development, Spiritual Awakening and Conscious Evolution
The path of awakening is often talked about as a path of self transcendence, so what roll could work on the self play in that process? What is a self?
The Mythology We Live In
“Nothing is more practical than a good theory.” — Ludwig Boltzman, physicist and pioneer of thermodynamics. When we look at ancient cultures it’s easy for us to recognize the mythical nature of the stories they …
You Don’t Need a Spiritual Experience to Wake Up
How many people are chasing after spiritual experiences? How many meditators are sitting hour after hour hoping to have their minds’ blown? How many people go to see gurus and teachers in the hopes of …
How the Self Evolves
The core of what I teach is the conviction that the shift in paradigm that so many of us recognize is needed, requires a transformation in the human sense of self. The practice of wormhole …
Being an Artist of Possibility
I’ve devoted my life single pointedly to spiritual awakening for twenty five years. Twenty of those years were spent living in a focused and intense practice community. And over the last ten years I have …
From Non-Conceptual Awareness to the Freedom of Spontaneous Being
I just got back from a week-long retreat working again with Jody Mountain to deepen my grasp of the practice and principles of the Hawaiian massage tradition of Ancient Lomi Lomi. Looking back on the …
How Consciousness Became Identified with Being You: A Wormhole Inquiry
Now let’s take what we have been discussing so far and put it all this together into a model of identification that will help us visualize what spiritual awakening means in relationship to the possibility …
Catching Up to Quantum Physics: A Wormhole Inquiry
We live in an extremely materialistic age and we are all much more materialistic than we might imagine. And when I say materialistic I don’t mean in the sense that we like to buy nice …
Beyond Our Materialistic Assumptions: A Wormhole Inquiry
My work is rooted in the conviction that reality can change. And I don’t just mean that aspects of reality can change. We all already know that. I mean that reality itself can change. This …
The Sun Is Always Shining: A New Model for Awakening…
A version of this article was first published on the Opening to the Infinite Blog Those of us who sincerely seek for spiritual liberation and awakening are most likely hoping to have a spiritual experience …
Awakening Beyond Time: An Essay About the Magic of Meditation
Do you believe in magic? I do. There is a magic to the practice of meditation that many practitioners never discover because we only find it when we eliminate time from the equation. My teaching …
Transitional Beings and the Space of Betweenness
Our perception is filtered by the current paradigm so we don’t see reality as it is, we see reality as the paradigm we live inside of allows us to see it. Our perceptions are filtered, …
The Delicate Art of Doing Absolutely Nothing
The first time I was engulfed by the realization of Radical Inclusivity was during a sixty-day meditation retreat under the guidance of my spiritual teacher. As I sat from morning until evening following the simple …
Does Reality Exist Before You Perceive It? A Wormhole Inquiry
A paradigm is a set of assumptions that shape how we experience reality. We live inside these assumptions and experience reality only in the way they allow. One of the most foundational assumptions that we …
Transcending Existential Limitation: A Wormhole Inquiry
As a meditation practitioner and teacher I have experienced myself and witnessed others experience the miracle of radical liberation countless times. There are many forms of meditation designed for a variety of purposes. The form …