You didn’t create the individual identity you’re carrying right now. It was installed in you as part of the “package deal” of your human consciousness, and shaped early on by your upbringing and your DNA. Yes, you’ve enhanced and polished this identity as you travel through time and space. But for most people, their individual identity is hardly a creation of their own, but rather, a prison that they are confined by. This ancient irony…
The sense of identification with a localized self– “I”, “me”, “mine”– is a made-up concept created out of thin air (literally), by the powerful universal consciousness that all of us embody. This “pseudo-self”, though having no basis in reality, is nonetheless a genius invention that has served humanity well. Because it gives the species an effective tool to be laser focused on its own survival. The pseudo-self has a simple mandate: to not die. Everything…
Duality is the basic building block of how we humans perceive the world. As you live your day to day life, your mind is constantly running classification algorithms categorizing things into good or evil, black or white, edible or inedible, friendly or threatening… It’s been doing that for 300,000 years. It’s good at it. Even though duality is a flawed way to characterize reality and basically a cognitive energy-saving shortcut because human brains have limited…
Modern physics has discovered that the world works very differently at the sub-atomic level. Up here in the “normal” world, we have space and time, gravity and speed, shapes and colors, right and wrong, good and bad… At the sub-atomic level, none of those apply anymore. Time grinds to a halt. Space is almost non-present. Particles can multi-locate and seem capable of moving faster than the speed of light. In other words, once activities move…
Reality is complex and truth has many layers. When you try to follow your intuition about a situation, feel like you’re getting some genuine insight about the situation, and yet still feel confused or ambiguous about what you need to do, it may be time to ask yourself, which part of truth am I seeing? Take a not-so-uncommon example. Say, you’re in a relationship and it’s difficult. You’re trying to find clarity about the situation.…
A lot of us have had a tumultuous relationship with 2020. Things certainly didn’t go according to plan, did they? Life volunteered you to be the change champion when you simply wanted things to stay where they were. Routines were disrupted, jobs became precarious, and human connections got tested… But no matter how disoriented 2020 may have made you feel, one thing is for certain– the whirlwinds we’re going through this year is only the…
If you’ve ever had the experience of things not going your way despite you trying so hard, you know how it feels. You think you’ve done everything you could and yet the result doesn’t budge. It’s like walking in a dark forest on your own for days with no map. You start wondering if you’ve been simply walking in circles or if you should be where you are at all. Are you on the right…
Most people are wired to believe that the status quo = safety. A corollary to that belief is that if you keep going on the path you’ve already been on (and are familiar with), you incur the least risk. Most of us can’t even help believing that. It’s a deeply programmed script for survival. It’s deeply programmed because it’s so helpful. Because in 99 out of 100 routine scenarios, this programming is probably right. But…
The biological systems of all sentient beings are built to be stable systems that resist change. In normal days this stability works extremely well. It makes sure that we spend the least amount of energy in carrying out repeatable tasks that are governed by ingrained neurological pathways. Things like brushing your teeth, eating, driving… Things you don’t spend any extra seconds to think about. Placing ourselves on such autopilots saves calories and benefits long-term survival…in…
There are perhaps 1,000 people on earth today who firmly believe they were Cleopatra in their past life. There are probably another 1,000 who are convinced that they are Jesus Christ reborn. Are they for real, or totally out of their mind? The answer is actually not binary on this. Because as often happens, the truth, when perceived and narrated from the viewpoint of the ego, becomes misunderstood, and ceases to be the truth. Do…
It’s easy to talk about “listening to your inner voice” on a theoretical level. But in reality, there are a lot of different voices talking in your head at any given moment. Your thoughts are constantly influenced by a great many different people and things. Some you are aware of, others you are not. So which one is the voice of truth? How can you even tell them apart? Illusive as it may sound, there…
From time to time I get emails from strangers asking me to teach them how to become a “psychic”. Unhelpful as it is, that’s a common misunderstanding of what intuition is. Many people think it’s some sort of supernatural power that, if acquired, would be a handy trick in their bargaining with life. Real intuition is anything but. Real intuition, i.e. the capacity to receive direct knowledge from the Source, is useful because it helps…
Your feelings about other people alway say more about you than about them. Your jealousy often shows you what you’ve been programmed to believe that you need to be or need to have, in order to be worthy of love and acceptance. Your negative judgements often tell you which part of your humanness that you’ve shoveled into the shadows because they do not fit in neatly in the programmed self image of the ego. And…
There are certain buzzwords that get thrown around a lot in personal development circles that have no fixed definitions and are totally up for everyone’s interpretation. People would read about or hear these words and think they know what they refer to. Yet upon close examination, you realize that the exact meaning of those words is lost on almost everyone. One of these buzz phrases is “highest potential”. When someone says such and such will…
Pop psychology made self love and self acceptance hip concepts these days. And as usual, the ego spins a concept that was supposedly spiritual truth to advance its own agenda. That’s why, for many people, self acceptance has become simply a tactic to get what they want– “accept” your inner child so that you can get it to behave, or a tactic to appease the suffering of not getting what your ego wants– Feeling terrible…
The distinction between the collective and the individual is an artificial one. The perceived boundary between you and me is, in a sense, an optical illusion created by the ego to make four-dimensional living more manageable for the earth bound segment of your journey. Empathic beings intuitively know this to be true. That’s why, when their gifts are still under-developed, empaths are often accused of having “boundary issues”. Yet, when expressed from the certainty of…
Obstacle and setback are the theme of the world right now. If your work and life have been majorly disrupted in the past couple months, you’re hardly alone. If you’re frustrated and restless, wondering “Why now? Why me? What am I doing with my life?”, you are channeling millions of others as well. But whatever questions you have about the difficult and puzzling circumstances the Universe has put you in, the Monkey King has some…
From the view of your human self, disruptions are terrible events. From the view of your soul, disruptions are some of the greatest blessings life can ever give you. In particular, expansion of consciousness and greater personal freedom rely on two kinds of disruptions: Disruption of personal identity Disruption between action and result The first disruption brings the realization that your real identity is not a small human, but an unbreakable, undestroyable manifestation of the…