Inner Life

I used to think I was like a ‘brick shit house’, without feelings. Then, out of desperation because of the misery I was leaving in my choldren, I found the key to an amazing door. The door was opened partly through dreams, and largely by learning to be nothing and letting Life show me the way. What I found, what I have called the Inner Life, was like ‘What happened in Mexico. It picked me up and shook me. It threw me on the ground and made love to me. Then it left me alone and I cried like a child.’ It was everything, always new, always unexpected and wonderful.

Habits

William James said the only difference between a hardened criminal and a socially successful person is habits. Once while on a local small beach with my children and dog, we had fun .........More

Breaking through to the Psychic and Spiritual

In January of 1972, two friends, Mike Tanner, Sheila Johns, and myself formed an experimental group. With ourselves as the subjects we wanted to research into the probability of the dream process breaking .........More

Secret of Time and Satan

By Edward CarpenterIs there one in all the world who does not desire to be divinely beautiful? To have the most perfect body-unerring skill, strength-limpid clearness of mind, as of the sunlight over the hills- To radiate .........More

This Is The Time Of The Quickening

There is no sin you are guilty of that you need grovel to a god who judges and condemns. Mistakes there may be, even a multitude of them. Such mistakes may have been those you made in the way you lived or treated others. Even your ancestors, whose lives helped form your body, may have left you a her...More

Dances With Wolves

Fritjof Capra, writes in The Tao of Physics about this one-in-all, and all-in-one experience. He says, ‘since we have no direct experience of the four-dimensional world of space-time, it is extremely difficult to imagine how a single particle can contain all other particles, and at the same time ...More

Coincidence or Synchronicity

We all take part in creating the world. This creativity or devastation arises out of our attitudes, our emotions, our love or anger. Lynton K. Caldwell, in the book Environmental Science, writes, ‘The environmental crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit. There could be n...More

The Life Plan

The Beginning of a Series Tony CrispConsidering that we are a very young culture, and that in recent years our science has been seen to have been preceded in its understanding by ancient cultures, we can learn a .........More

What is the experience of enlightenment like?

Enlightenment Part 3 Tony Crisp People attempt to describe it in many ways. Ramana Maharshi says that when you realise the Self (enlightenment), the sense of yourself as distinct from the world disappears. Another person describes it by .........More

What part do thoughts and feelings play in enlightenment?

Enlightenment Part 1 Tony Crisp If you think about a friend, ask yourself, ‘Is this thought my friend?’ If you have feelings about the friend, ask yourself, ‘ Are these feelings my friend?” You cannot conjure your friend .........More

Is enlightenment a state of mind I can develop?

Enlightenment Part 2 Tony Crisp R. D. Laing, the psychiatrist, in describing the search for ones fundamental self said, ‘The Life I am trying to grasp is .........More

Why is enlightenment sometimes called liberation?

Enlightenment Part 4 Tony Crisp The state of enlightenment is beyond any sense of good or evil, beyond any opposites, or of oneself and otherness. Because of .........More

Are Heaven and Enlightenment the same?

Enlightenment Part 5 Tony Crisp Many things that Jesus is reported to have said can be recognised as connecting with the state of enlightenment. For instance he .........More

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