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Tag Archives: awareness
Cognitive Science Leads the Way
Cognitive science is leading the way and and paving the road to a viable understanding of consciousness, perception and reality. At the fore of a potential breakthrough that could totally revolutionize our understanding of existence, life and the world around … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mind
Tagged awareness, brain, cognitive science, consciousness, evolution, experience, mind, neuroscience, perception, reality
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The Making of the Human Self
How do children develop a sense of self? From the moment they are born, babies are exposed to information that can teach them about who they are. By touching their own face and body, or by kicking and grabbing things, … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mind
Tagged awareness, child, child psychology, childhood, consciousness, ego, emotions, human condition, human self, infant, mind, neuroscience, psychology, self, self-awareness, toddler, world
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A Satsang Invocation
The San Jose BMCM Satsang Invocation Leader’s CALL: “Krishna said: …you shall come to me; this I promise; for you are dear to me.” Group RESPONSE: “We come to your presence, Krishna. Bring us now into your light and wisdom.” … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mysticism, Transformation
Tagged adhan, awareness, Bhagavad Gita, chronos, consciousness, divine promise, enlightenment, experience, human condition, illumination, invocation, kairos, Krishna, light, mysticism, promise, sacred space, sacred time, sacred time and space, satsang, spiritual practice, spirituality
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The Joy of Knowing… Who You Are
To a foundling orphan, growing up without finding out answers to questions of who and why can be hurtful. That hurt can stay hidden for years, swept under the rug of having to live out a current lifetime, despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mysticism
Tagged answer, awareness, being human, closure, emotions, enlightenment, foundling, healing, human condition, humanhood, hurt, knowing, orphan, question, who
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The Moment of Awakened Awareness
The ineffable, unmanifest, undifferentiated Consciousness, that journeys to the universe of its manifestations through its mirror-mind, individuates infinitely as the Self. Is is this Self as the subject knower that becomes increasingly aware in the manifest dimension of object forms … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mysticism, The Mystical Life, Transformation
Tagged awakened awareness, awakening, awareness, consciousness, Dzogchen, emptiness, enlightenment, experience, human condition, illumination, Khandro Rinpoche, liberation, mysticism, nirvana, nothingness, release, samsara, self, self-awareness, spiritual journey, sunyata, transformation, Void
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“Freely Resting” in Nondual Awareness
Here is a piece of beautiful Dzogchen teaching, that I would like to share with you. Use it for meditation by contemplating the instruction provided and the teaching’s meaning. Nondual awareness completely lets go of attaching any importance to the … Continue reading
Develop Your Awareness of God-Presence
Whether for the purpose of a contemplation sitting or at any other time, remember to acknowledge, invoke and invite the Spirit of God within you to come forth from within to fill your awareness and life with the experience of … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Contemplation/Meditation, Mysticism, The Mystical Life, Transformation
Tagged awareness, consciousness, contemplation, contemplative meditation, emptiness, experience, Fr. Keating, Fr. Thomas Keating, God, God-presence, Infinite Way, Joel Goldsmith, life, meditation, mysticism, presence, presence of God, selfhood, soul, Spirit, spiritual journey, spiritual practice, spirituality, The Infinite Way, The Mystical Life, transformation
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Why Bother with Self-Realization?
Responding to a recently posted blog, Stephen messaged us the following three wonderful questions. QUESTION NO. 1 Since God has always been and will always be the Perfect Absolute Infinite Consciousness and this has never been and will never be … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness & Spirituality, Mysticism, Oneness
Tagged Atman, awareness, Becoming, being, bhakti, blind, blind men, Brahman, chronos, consciousness, cosmic, cross-culture, Doubting Thomas, eating, enlightenment, God, God the Father, God the Son, illumination, immanent, individual, individual nature, Individuation, Infinite Way, Joel Goldsmith, journey, kairos, love, mystical experience, mystical path, mysticism, nondualism, nondualist, Oneness, Oprah Winfrey, perception, Prodigal Son, proof, pudding, pure subjectivity, self-awareness, self-realization, selfhood, space, spiritual journey, subject-object, subjectivity, Thomas, time, transcendent, Truth, unconditional love, Uroborus
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Remembering Truth
The life you and I live is God-Life. God-Life is the only life there is because God is the only being and existence there is. So, the life we are living is God-Life. This life of God is our life … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, belief, beliefs, conscious awareness, consciousness, experience, God, God-Life, human, human experience, life, now, power, Truth
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Bring Him Home
God literally brings you home to Itself in consciousness, in your inner realization of oneness with God, in God — the realization of the Christ-Truth of your Being and Self. May the New Year be a fulfillment of this realization. … Continue reading
