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There’s a part of awakening no one warns you about—the silence after the storm, the space where even your own breath sounds foreign. I call it divine isolation. When the veil lifts, and you begin to ...

Christmas is celebrated across the world as the birth of Jesus Christ, the light that entered a dark and divided world. Yet, when seen through the combined lenses of astronomy, astrology, and ...

This seems like a big deal. I cannot believe that this evidence is now up on a government site, and yet quality media is not featuring it yet. Guess they’re too busy censoring CBS: “FCC Commissioner ...

Jim Carrey talks about his battle with depression. He explains just how tough suffering from depression can be, and how finding freedom from depression is tied to separating from the ego. When I think ...

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, ...

Everyone and their mom knows, at least intellectually, that the whole of creation is in a state of endless revolution. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “No same man could walk through ...

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And I know for certain that when I look into another human being, whether they have eyes to see or not, I can behold them.

In one of the stamens of the flower of the world is Pemako in the shape of Vajra Yogini lying down. Outer, inner and secret levels correspond to the levels of the mind. In the secret chakra of Vajra ...

Can we all agree on that much? Also: we can all be mean people sometimes. We have a bad night’s sleep, everything goes wrong before we even leave the house, the traffic is atrocious, we are stressed, ...

I am quite familiar with the story about Buddha’s enlightenment under that fateful banyan tree in Bodh Gaya. But until recently, I was much less familiar with his wandering ways before he became ...