• William James on throwing the burden down

    .“The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of the personal center of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by…

  • Confronting yourself

    You die to the 3D world and your world is now your own mental world, your subjectivity, in a way you did not experience previously, perhaps, except in dreams. Your previous communication with the parts of yourself you were not conscious of may have taken place entirely without your conscious knowledge; or you may have…

  • An iterative process

    So, we are dead to the world and we first turn our attention to who we are and were, as opposed to who we liked to think we were. We judge, and then judgment becomes acceptance. And then? And then you are moving again, and what you are experiencing changes as it changes you. As…

  • Greater than you thought, and less

    You – the nominal person who just died to the 3D world – have gone through a couple of difficult stages, of which judgment of your failings was probably the most painful. But as acceptance replaces condemnation, you are ready to move again. You’ve stopped holding on to the sides of the sliding board. That’s…