What a ridiculous title – who came up with that?! From waking to deep sleep, and in dream, being is all there is. There is no ‘how to be’ because there is only the knowing of being, the sense of presence – the present moment – with the play of life, the universe and everything…
Here in the UK, we had two days of ridiculous heat. The weather maps were blood red and the news reports said we’d all die in horribly hot ways if we stepped outside. It was media fearmongering – the action of deliberately arousing public fear. It can get good folk thinking in negative ways, and…
Nine months after a sperm manages to beat two million others and break into an egg, a body-mind is born, and its brain wires up to perceive and act and be in the world. Sensory receptors send messages to the brain and this ridiculous amount of information is then collected, sifted and pattern matched. It’s…
Magician’s were once massive misogynists and sawing a woman in half was an act I remember seeing a few times in my childhood. It goes back a couple of hundred years. You know the illusion. A beautiful woman gets inside a box, which is then closed and locked, and her feet pop out the bottom….
Effortlessness – it’s my favourite word. There is reality and there is illusion. Reality is that which is real and an illusion is a misinterpretation of reality; and however huge the misinterpretation, reality never ceases to be what is. Reality, the state of things as they actually exist, is the underlying essence of life, the…
You have grown to know yourself to be a thing – the body and the mind, the person – and to know that you are not that passing insect, the screen in front of you or the sun shining above. Thanks to your big brain wiring up in your infancy, you know yourself to be…
However hard the wind blows, it’s truly wonderful to know there’s only the effortless knowing of experience – the knowing and the known, the awareness of being present – and both are beyond one and the same. Relax and look at your present moment experience. Simply notice everything that’s appearing in awareness right now. What…
What is a human? What am I?! When I was a kid, that question would pop into my head again and again and cause a mild panic. I needed to know what I was. School taught me that I was a mammal, a big-brained primate that walks upright and uses advanced tools and complex language….