Eliminating Suffering from Our Lives

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 […]

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Creating Sacred Space

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 […]

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The Nondual and Dualistic Jitterbug

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 – […]

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What is the Source of Your Guidance?

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 […]

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How “Give-Ups” Help You Shift States of Consciousness

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 […]

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The Art & Practice of Conscious Leadership: Architecture for a Learning Experience

 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 […]

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Unmasking the Inner Victim

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 […]

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Are We Inter-Connected or All One? A Look at What We Think We Know

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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