In May of 2019 I wrote an article for ThriveGlobal, an online publication founded by Arianna Huffington in 2016 to support people who were struggling with stress and burnout. The title of the article is “Pain Versus Suffering” and I pointed out that while physical and emotional pain is inevitable, suffering is caused by the […]
Continue Reading →When Tom Eddington and I started Futureshapers several years ago, we built into all our gatherings (conference calls, retreats and meetings) a context-setting ritual we called creating “sacred space.” The incentive was to set a tone for a different kind of interaction, one that sanctified the time we had together distinguishing it from conventional meetings […]
Continue Reading →Studying the philosophy of unity conscious, what the ancient Hindus called Adavita* or what many modern sages call “nondual,” I have noticed a shortage of graphical depictions that might be helpful for people who are visual learners. As a result, I created a graphic in an attempt to describe and distinguish the two realms – […]
Continue Reading →In private conversations, many people admit to having some source of inner guidance, some trusted reliance on something that might be best described as a power greater than themselves. This is not a conversation most people are comfortable having, especially with someone they don’t know very well. In less intimate company they may refer to […]
Continue Reading →When Tom Eddington and I first published our “Four States of Consciousness” article, we mentioned that people would transition from state-to-state, often visiting each state several times a day. These states don’t offer any guarantee of permanent citizenship. As a reminder, here’s the model: The focus of this writing is the “give-ups” that one must […]
Continue Reading →I recently read Michael Pollan’s 2018 book How to Change Your Mind* since it was highly recommended by a neighbor of mine. I didn’t realize it was a bestseller since popular books rarely find their way onto my stack of books to be read. I took a break from my pile of nondual books and […]
Continue Reading →All of the leaders who I consider conscious have some sort of personal practice, sometimes called a “spiritual practice,” which keeps them fit, more conscious and aware as well as on their toes so-to-speak, when it comes to managing their ego and staying awake most of the time. Naturally they meander from one state of […]
Continue Reading →Over the past few years a ton of articles, blogs and numerous books on conscious leadership have been published, adding to the hockey stick uptick on the subject. When I first started working in this field I would describe the players in the field as a set international community, with ebbs and flows, but essentially […]
Continue Reading →Something has been bothering me, for a couple of years now, and I finally started getting what it was the other day. It has been a widespread acceptance of a behavior I’ll call the “inner victim.” This often unconscious phenomenon allows the individual to complain about many things, incessantly, yet not thinking they are acting […]
Continue Reading →Most of us think of ourselves as separate from one another – separate bodies, separate professions, separate living quarters, separate ideologies, separate everything. Here I am, over here. There you are, over there. Pretty simple, eh? But is this the truth? So what is this centuries-old Hindu philosophy of Advaita, or more exactly Advaita Vedānta, […]
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