If you are a feminine soul type (and most of my readers are, in both male and female bodies), emotions play a big role on your journey. I know, emotions play a big role in everyone’s life, but in our case they pave the path toward spiritual freedom. The soul evolves toward the Masculine—to individuate and experience Creation—and then must…
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Best Wishes For The New Year!
As 2016 comes to an end, it’s good to pause and reflect on what this year meant for you in terms of emotional and spiritual growth, as well as worldly accomplishments. This year was a year of closing circles, tying up loose ends, and cleaning house (and/or life) in preparation for something new. It was also a year of healing…
Are You Developing a Spiritualized Ego?
There’s an ancient Hindu board game known as Moksha Patan (“ladder of liberation”) or Gyan Chauper (“game of knowledge”) that reflects the Leela, or divine game of hide-and-seek Consciousness plays with itself through the experiences of individual souls like you and me—that is, through our desire and karma. In a nutshell, it consists in moving through the different levels of…
A Most Auspicious Time To Start Something New
This is a month of high energy and many celebrations. In the West, it’s the 10th month of the year, so it’s a month when main aspects of the year to come start showing (since 1 + 0 = 1, the number of new beginnings). But many cultures following the Lunar Calendar see it as a spiritual period. For instance,…
How To Unravel Your Emotional Knots
Did you know that your habits of thought, perception, and action create “energetic knots” that keep you stuck at a certain level of awareness? The Hindu yogic scriptures explain how these energy knots (or granthis) affect the chakra system and prevent the Kundalini energy to flow upwards toward the crown chakra to help you grow spiritually and eventually reach enlightenment.…
How Well Do You Know Yourself?
A Zen student comes to see master Bankei with the hope to get some advice to manage his anger. He tells him, “Master, I have an ungovernable temper. How can I cure it?” The master thinks it sounds fascinating and asks the student to show him this temper he is talking about. “I don’t have it right now,” says the…
How To Find Your Truth In The Age of Darkness
We are so attached to the physical senses and the ‘tangible’ material reality they allow us to experience that it may be difficult to wrap our head around the idea that we’re moving toward new cosmic and planetary cycles and a higher reality (see Self-Ascension Into 5th Dimension) when we witness so much ignorance and suffering in the world. The…