manitou

@manitou and Barb I'm impressed that you got through the book so quickly 🙂  Thanks...It really means a lot to me that you enjoyed it. 

@manitou I had no idea he wrote a book but as far as I am concerned you can wrap them both with twin, yarn or whatever is at hand soak them in gas and save your brain from the toxin.  Dwai's book...

Some of my spiritual friends and I have been meeting almost every night for about an hour, to meditate. It is very interesting that we are able to easily connect with each other irrespective of the ph...

@manitou That's nice. I find that no matter who we talk to (physical appearance of clean or dirty) we tend to attract what we're looking for. In my case, I was really burned out from the physical worl...

@dwai Lol!  I actually liked the prancing and the waterfalls with the beautiful young people and the mind blowing scenery. Oh well must have had many lifetimes in India it always seems so familia...

@manitou I found it to be a very entertaining and captivating story. It takes place in the United States and India. It also takes place in different dimensions as well. Here in this story Dwai does a ...

This idea of a war with the mind and overcoming the mind presents “it” as some sort of “other”. It sets us against what we struggle to understand within. “Mind” - “The Intellect” are such big words fo...

Most of us here have a practical background, having spent many years in the practice of a meditative method or art (e.g., qigong, yoga, taijiquan, etc). It is true that having a practice is essential ...

Really like your point @dwai: "Effort is needed until it is no longer needed". I'm more of a person who chases after freedom. First I thought it came from the external, then I thought it came from the...

Another tendency I've observed (including in myself) is that we tend to gravitate towards a binary logic filter. I attribute it to our modern propensity for things digital. In a binary logic filter,...

I'll share here my reply to the same post on "the other forum." I think it's important to keep in mind when we may discussing the "absolute view" or "our true nature" with those who may have not yet d...

Been going into this a bit more with some friends of mine (who I'm meditating with every day). As is expected, most of us have preconceived notions about our "true nature" and how complex or how ...

Sounds like you long to go Viking. The term Viking is misused today. It was never a name for a people, the people were Norse. Viking is a verb for what Norse people did. They went out Viking... it...

@manitou I'd appreciate some help in the future, and I'll send you a message when I'm ready to approach these things; which may be a week or two. Suprisingly, I'm mostly past issues of a bad childhood...

@mithras Well said.  Certain processes in life have great inertia.  For me, I experience it as a pull.  A subtle, or obvious compulsive draw toward an event, item, person, place, activi...