From the category archives:

Consciousness

Enlightenment

October 18, 2010

We have heard it said that “to live is to suffer”.  Is that your experience?  We all live in a world that tries to understand life and fulfill our needs and desires with the intellect, and when we fail, and we inevitably will fail, we suffer in one way or another.  So we have all [...]

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Self-Actualization/Enlightment

June 14, 2010

I use the words self-actualization and enlightenment interchangeably.  We usually hear self-actualization referred to in psychological terms and enlightenment referred to in spiritual terms, but they are the same state of consciousness or level of awareness.  And these advanced states of consciousness are the results of evolution or personal growth. As we grow into these [...]

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Expanding Our Consciousness

August 20, 2009

In 517 BC, Plato created a story to depict the human condition, and it still applies today.  He asks the people he was talking with to imagine a group of people held captive in a cave all of their lives.  Their experiences consists of watching shadows on a wall produced by what was going on [...]

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What does it mean to move to a higher level of consciousness?

August 13, 2009

Consciousness is our ability to be aware.  As we evolve, our consciousness expands, and we have now evolved to a point where more and more people will be experiencing a huge leap in  consciousness.  In the past most of us have only been conscious of our left brain abilities, such as reason and logic, analytical [...]

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