Welcome. In this section, you’ll find posts on spiritual principles that work in real life. These articles range from fundamental truths to advanced concepts that deepen spiritual mastery and intuitive clarity.
I share practical methods for expanding awareness, making meaningful perception shifts, and developing your connection with your Inner Teacher, your own source of spiritual wisdom. You’ll find ways to deepen your spiritual practice, strengthen your connection to nature, and access intuitive guidance rather than relying on others.
Some posts in this section begin with an image rather than an explanation. This is intentional. The image is not meant to persuade or instruct, but to create a pause before ideas take shape. If you find yourself wondering where it’s going, that’s often part of the process.
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Q: You hear a lot about thoughts and what we should and shouldn’t do with them in meditation. Should we try to resolve thoughts in meditation?
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 … Read More
The current world energy could be summed up as a “Do Not Enter” sign with its red outer circle and horizontal bar. But if you look with a shifted perspective, you can also see that the bar can also be viewed as a handle that can be used to push the door open.
Presently, many people are experiencing a kind of holding, where they don’t know how to proceed or believe they cannot proceed because they take at face value … Read More
Can it work that there are certain numbers of people in a community or around the world, who if they think good thoughts, they can overcome the destructive thoughts?
On one plane, yes. But on the physical plane, destructive energy is a very dense energy that overtakes most things in its path.
An angry person has a much greater chance of making other people around them angry than a happy person has of making people around them happy. Negative energy … Read More
Q: How should people go about achieving their dreams?
Most people are inclined to put the cart before the horse. It’s valuable to have dreams, but most people don’t know why they have the dreams they have. Many have them because they’ve fallen into them and don’t know what other dreams to have. Yes, through dreaming, people create their own reality and lives. But so many of these dreams get shaped at times in our … Read More
There are three key components to finding the inner teacher. It is truly this simple. Stop. Look. Listen.
The stopping is stopping the craziness of modern life. Stopping habits that keep you trapped in behaviors that you know are nothing but time wasters. Stop using your phones as a pacifier. Stop running around looking externally for the outer world to fulfill you in any lasting way. Stop hectic lifestyles.
Part of the stopping includes beginning the process of meditation, which … Read More
This conversation emerged from a class where students wanted to discuss The Inner Life of Trees and Finding the Mother Tree.
Q: I’ve been thinking about trees and their ability to communicate with each other and to help each other, and I was wondering if their consciousness is greater than ours?
What they have kept in their evolutionary process is a groupthink, a oneness that humans have lost. We used to have it; there used to be telepathic communication … 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
Q: You talk about “responsibility without drama.” What does that actually mean in the context of our everyday reactions?
It means owning our reactions without adding extra spin.
Most of us have been conditioned to have knee-jerk reactions when we’re upset. In the heat of a disagreement, a comment hits us the wrong way, and before we know it, we’re off to the races, piling on default emotions and old memories. We start replaying conversations, assigning meanings, comparing what happened … Read More
