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Nothing “Really” Matters
Notice the word in parenthesis (it wouldn’t let me italicize it) “Really”. That word, generally, adds nothing to a sentence. For example, instead of saying, “He is a really good person, we should…
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Ken Wilber’s Pre/Trans Fallacy
One of Integral philosopher, Ken Wilber’s, most important contributions to philosophy is his concept of the Pre/Trans Fallacy. Before this fallacy, mystical states of oneness were dismissed by modern rational people as a…
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The Wise Universe
When I refer to a “Wise Universe” I mean there is an intelligence that underlies the whole shebang. Our Modern Conditioning In our modern world, we are trained to see the universe has…
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What Living in the Now Means
There are a lot of misconceptions about what “Being or Living in the Now” means. For one thing, a lot of people think Being in the Now means just acting on any whim…
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The Bardo of Becoming
We have now just about come full circle. We started out with the bardo of this life, and now we are at the final bardo of the six bardo series, the bardo of…
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The Parable of the Blue Sky and the Clouds
It’s amazing to think that our real fear of death is really a fear of life. It is a fear of who we really are. Our fear of death is at bottom a…
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The Bardo of Dharmata (After-Death)
After we have officially died, meaning the journey of our physical body and the appearances of this life have ended, the journey of the mind continues into the Bardo of Dharmata. This is…
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Distracted from Distraction by Distraction
The title is taken from the first of T. S. Eliot’s” Four Quartets,” Burnt Norton. It describes the plight of modern humans. We spend all of our time running away from ourselves by…
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The Bardo of Dying
The Bardo of Dying is what the previous three bardos of life have been preparing us for. It is where the pedal hits the medal so to say. It is here we take…
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Why We Won’t Deal Seriously with Climate Change
Lately I have been writing a lot of articles on death. I was inspired by reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead and taking a course on it by Andrew Holocek. He recommended…
