Welcome! In this section, you’ll find blog posts related to Inner Knowing and finding your Inner Teacher. Topics include learning how to pay attention in order to make perception shifts to become more awake, deepening our spirituality and connection to nature, as well as developing a strong connection and conversation with our Inner Teacher or Inner Knowing. These terms may be used interchangeably.
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One is instinctive and its purpose is to warn you of danger or something that’s to right. Pay attention to and respect this fear.
The other is cultural and its purpose is to keep you in line with the norm. It prevents you from moving on, changing, exploring, and growing. Kill this fear as fast as you can.… Read More
Q: In addition to meditation and spending time in nature, what are the most beneficial things to do with our time?
Take care of what is around you. Mend what needs mending. Tend what needs tending. Love what needs loving. Appreciate and enjoy your talents. Express your creativity. Be gentle and take comfort from simple living.
There is nothing mysterious about any of this. It is all very straightforward. When you meditate and spend time in nature, it quickly becomes … Read More
The mistake that people make with all spiritual practices is they walk into this room full of tools, and all these tools can help you to break through the illusion of duality, into that spiritual awareness connection, into the All-That-Is.
But what most people do is they try a tool for a brief period. They don’t get the quick results they’re looking for. They drop the tool. They go back and pick up another tool. “Let me try this one.” … Read More
This meditation includes breathing and a guided visualization to encourage complete relaxation
Q: How is, or is recent sunspot and solar flare activity affecting humans?
Recent solar activity (the earth is experiencing an intense solar storm this week) has been blasting the atmosphere with ionized particles. The equivalent of throwing pebbles into the pond causing concentric waves to radiate out. And because so many pebbles are thrown in at once, the concentric circles cause interference with each other, resulting in disruptive patterns. The point is, it’s hard now for us to hold … Read More
Q: What is it that we are afraid of? Is it just fear of the unknown?
You can’t be afraid of the unknown, because it’s unknown. In this case, you’re afraid of what your imagination conjures.
What people are really afraid of is losing the known.… Read More
A few thousand years ago, back when the Buddha was alive—that was a very different world. There weren’t the distractions that there are today. Living back in that time, you were already much closer to being able to be in the now, because there was very little to distract from the now.
There are different challenges now. The principles are what they are, and they still work. But the effort that’s required now is much greater. So it requires a … Read More
