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Week 12 – Reconnect with Who I Was to Inspire from Where I Am

“Speaking in front of people” is on my “love to do” list, yet these couple of weeks I’d been quite stressed out as I prepared my speech material. I began to wonder: “Am I stressing out about this because I care tremendously about the people listening, or because I care tremendously about what the people [...]

Week 11 – Projecting

I projected ego onto Jaden. “Oh no! What else can I do with baby now? I’ve done the same things a dozen times this week! He must be bored.” Jaden finds your face fascinating and giggles at the same games. He is not bored with the same things done a dozen times. Your ego pathology [...]

A Matter of Changing or Serving

I have been thinking about the idea of “changing the world”. “Changing the world” is a concept I had raging hormones about, as a manifestation of a “type-A-overachieving-never-feeling-quite-self-secure” personality as well as a true desire to “make a difference before I’m dead”. Part of a new direction I’m moving toward is a notion of “changing [...]

Is Self Awareness Only in Humans

Is self-awareness and the capacity to be “consciousness of consciousness itself” only in humans? At least one spiritual lecturer believes, and states thus. My question is, “how do we know this appears ONLY in humans?” Where or what is the evidence? I’m not saying that a dog, for example, may be conscious of its own [...]

A Sprinkle of Integral on Everything

I’m writing this article to demonstrate the level of my ignorance: you are thus warned. I’ve been writing about the “integral”, but I have only a vague idea of what “integral” is supposed to mean. At least, as defined by proponents and contributors to the “integral movement”. Like all things “new”, people can, and do, [...]