Relatives do not have to be malicious to be toxic. And we can accept the mood of the moment without clinging to it; for they are fleeting...

Meditation is great, but it’s NOT a panacea. If you sincerely feel that panic attacks are making your life unmanageable then google “PCRM...

What if there were two distinct dimensions to rendering Judgment? What could they be? Metaphoric judgement could consist of lavishing...

“Ego-death” is a popular term in the literature extoling the benefits of DMT, but what does it mean? Like many compound metaphors it is...

I’ve seen Olympic divers plummet in a controlled and graceful manner from ridiculously high platforms and then emerging from the...

Ever met a perfectionist? How joyful were they? How peaceful? It is almost as if perfectionism was an ANTIDOTE to peace and joy. Bring...

Neither IBS nor IBD are psychosomatic. They are real disorders that can wreak havoc on our emotional well-being, so much so that one’s...

Overthinking is exhausting. But ya know what’s also exhausting? Trying to decipher (no less apply) the cryptic advice of many meditation...

Breaking up sucks! Interpersonally it is excruciating, not to mention the exhausting process of apartment hunting, packing, and moving....

For a good many millennia human culture (and the spiritual systems that drive it) have been belief oriented. Perhaps you’ve heard the...

The three most popular meditation manuals attributed to the Buddha are the: 1 A-na-pa-na-sa-ti, 2 ...

Brainstorms: a treasure from the muses – subtle or coarse, gentle or turbulent, they could function as our golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s...

Leave it to the Germans to grotesquely describe that Sugar Ray song, left on auto-repeat, in the CD player of your mind as an “Earworm.”...

There is a myth (popular and destructive) that in order to become a suitable vessel for contemplation one most first master the technique...

As I child I watched so many episodes of “Casper the Friendly Ghost,” that now, as doddering fifty-seven year-old I can still recall some...

There we are, just minding our own business, sitting cross-legged upon our meditation cushion, when all of a sudden, out of the blue, we...

The mere philosophy of NON-duality could strike one as being: flaccid, worthless, and weak. For its power to transform us lays in neither...

He told me of the more than nine years he spent on meditative retreat, and of his frustrated search to receive the teachings for a very...

If you are new to meditation you may have been erroneously taught that it is all about forging peace THROUGH the subjugation of our...

One of the many fringe benefits of a healthy meditation practice is finding ourselves resting in the midpoint between the two toxic...