On our new podcast series, Ray and I will be making our way through my 2011 book “The Three Illusions” – a guide to using a basic understanding of science and some common sense to rid yourself of anger, guilt, anxiety, fear and emotional pain. In this episode, we begin a journey to investigate whether […]
Maharaj: You came here today because you are searching for something. What is it that you are searching for? Fred: Peace. Maharaj: What kind of peace do you seek? Peace in the Middle East? Peace in your marriage? Fred: Peace in my mind. Maharaj: Can you explain in more detail the nature of your problem? […]
What the old timers used to call “enlightenment” or “realisation” or “awakening” is really just the direct realisation that you are not some kind of being that is separate from the universe but that you are, in fact, the entire universe. Not a part of it; not connected to it; but actually it in its […]
Hawkeye Pierce gets it. In this interview with Robert Sapolsky from Stanford, they talk about the illusion of free will. This interview is pretty good too.
I often hear people say they have seen that the self / ego is an illusion and that they are “the one” – but then they lost it. They often say things like “the ego came back” or “life got in the way”. I’m hear to tell you that the realisation that can be lost […]
The fundamental need that every single person has is to “fill the hole”. We struggle to name “the hole”, but it exists inside all of us. It manifests itself in different ways for different people, depending on their genetics and conditioning and environment, but it’s the same hole. It’s that feeling that you are irrevocably […]
Once we have seen our true nature, there is no going back. It is a permanent transformation. It’s like a blind person being given the gift of sight. You’ll never again think of yourself in the old way. Enlightenment (aka realization) happens suddenly although it may take years of work to be ready for the […]
If you haven’t seen the American sitcom “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”, then you are missing out. It’s one of my favourite comedies of all time. Seriously funny and wrong. Of course YMMV. This morning over coffee, Chrissy and I were watching this collection of bloopers from the show, and it struck me that if […]
I just finished reading Daniel C Dennett’s latest book “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools For Thinking” and, while it’s overall an engaging book, his final section is just plain disappointing. In the final chapters, Dennett attempts to demonstrate some of his “intuition pumps” (tools for improving our thinking about difficult problems) by tackling three very hard […]