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.

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

Enlightenment

The Next Step in Evolution Enlightenment is a process of personal growth that is possible for many today. Just as humans started their journey as an animal with no speech and no rational mind, and moved .........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

How Can I Know Enlightenment?

Enlightenment Part 6 Tony Crisp You need to be clear that you already have enlightenment, but perhaps you haven’t realised it. Maybe that is why some people .........More

Is enlightenment the same as awareness of God?

Enlightenment Part 7 Tony Crisp This depends upon what is meant by awareness of God. What many people call an awareness of God is really exalted emotional .........More

Toward the Light that is Myself?

Enlightenment Part 8 Tony Crisp After his initial years of meditation, Gopi Krishna came to see that ‘Contrary to the belief which attributes spiritual growth to purely .........More

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