Hi All, Just a quick comment about week 1, and Genpo Roshi's riffs on Big Mind. It's a great exercise to point out the simple ''always already'' Aspects of Being that are multiplexed in our awareness. Yes, Roshi's teachings are heavily colored by Buddhist imagery and belief systems, but with the advantage of Western depth psychology's ...

Hi All,    Nardine inspired me to share this with you!  It's a free online introduction to some of Eckhart Tolle's ideas made popular by Oprah. As you know, they are closely related to what we explore here. It's a seven week ''course'' that provides audio files and/or PDF transcripts of each of seven renowned ...

John Hawkins: 6 - Notice the aspects associated with these beliefs One of the principles of Aspect Psychology is that different aspects employ different beliefs and influences as they come and go in our outer ego. So we pay particular attention to what aspects of our personality originally engaged these beliefs and how the payoffs fulfilled ...

Hi Chris, And welcome to the Kosmic Cocktail Lounge! I'm glad that Kris has been addressing to what is a very important area of misunderstanding in our larger conscious creation community. On the one hand, it's a big shift to take on the full responsibility of everything we create in our lives, so in a sense, nothing ''happens to us'' ...

Hi Whitehorse, Yes, the inmates are running this asylum anyway.... but seriously it's a perfectly good question with no final answer. Still, here's one way to look at it: begin with your epistemological assumptions, big word, but philosophers use it as well. What beliefs/assumptions are you using to come to any conclusion, and this one ...

Hi All, I remember rereading The Magical Approach on a Maui vacation with Joanne in 1995 when I was increasingly stressed out with my Science Museum career (I would quit in Feb. 1997 and never look back). It was such a wonderful reminder of the values I held so dear, and yet were so in the closet during that period of my life. I gave that copy of ...

Joanne and I just returned from five wonderful days at the Colorado Seth Conference in Longmont, CO, about 45 miles north of Denver. This was our second visit, and it felt like a family reunion since we saw so many familiar faces. I can’t tell you how incredible the group feeling gets and I hope that many of you will consider going next ...