We would not exist without our stories, but our true essence is more than that. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. “Preferences, attachments, and stories happen. If you identify with them, truth becomes as divided as heaven and earth. Truth is not in the attachments, opinions, and stories of the mind. The essential truth lies eternally undisturbed by beliefs of the mind.”

It happens when you and your attachments to your story end. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. “Pure witnessing, without a witnesser, is effortless when there is no self, no you with preferences and a story. It happens when you and your attachments to the story end. That is how truth reveals itself. Anything other than pure awareness is…

When everything is connected to everything else, then anything is a potential omen. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this article paywall free here. The most basic definition of omenology is the “study of omens”. Omens are traditionally defined as… Something which portends, or is perceived to portend, either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future. A thing of prophetic significance. (Wiktionary)

Unconditional Love is all there is. But we, as a separate ego-self, can never know it unconditionally. — Non-Medium members can access this full article paywall-free here. Love “Love” is one of the most powerful words one can write and speak. Love is something we all want. But even when we have it, we never have enough of it. We have written innumerable stories, songs, dramas, and comedies about…

[Updated Jan 15, 2023] Either Everything is Real or Nothing is Real, and we are stuck in between. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. Contents What is Real? — [1.1] Western Philosophy — [1.2] Physics — [1.3] Hinduism Two Opposite Extremes of Real & Unreal — [2.1] Nothing Is Real — [2.2] Everything is Real — [2.3] Two Spiritual Paths In Between…

[Updated March 19, 2022] Over 100 nonduality teachers and speakers are on YouTube these days, with more coming online all the time. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. Nonduality is Not New Emptiness (sunyata) has been a core teaching in Mahayana Buddhism since at least Nagarjuna (~300 CE). The similar Advaita (nondual) Vedanta school of Hinduism has been around since at least Gaudapada’s time (6th c CE). The earliest Zen/Chan Buddhism writings also date…

We live in an ongoing explosion of energy that is always fully encompassing everything in our experience. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. “ — Nikola Tesla Contents [1] The Big Bang Theory of the Universe [2] Four Sources — [2.1] Peter Brown — [2.2] Cryptonaturalist — [2.3]…

[Updated Aug 16, 2022] It’s easy — all we can only know is only what we perceive. — I am all I know. I am a container, a box, a dish holding all I know, embracing all I sense, containing my universe. There is nothing beyond all I know, all I imagine, all I contain. Each new discovery, idea, realization, recognition, enters my container, is held by me, becomes more of all I know. I create all I know,

Recent scientific papers point to the power of unconscious ‘Pure Awareness’ that lies beyond our conscious ego-self. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. I HAVE mixed feelings about the relationship between science and spirituality. I think that science can never grasp the deepest reality of who we are because that level is beyond the material existence that is the domain of science. …

[Updated Oct 4, 2022] Duality and Nonduality are opposites of one thing, with shades of beliefs between them. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. The more nonduality speakers and teachings I listened to, the more I wondered about the different version of nondualism. After mulling this over, I came up with the following Duality-Nonduality Spectrum. (Click on the table to see a larger version.)

The unity of all existence is in the here witnessing what is there. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. My table is out there My pen is out there My paper is out there Everything I see, hear, and touch is out there My body is out there, and it is in there My thoughts and ideas are in there My feelings…

Your “True Self” and sense of “I Am” is surprisingly always present and easily seen just by pointing at it. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. I have heard not everyone gets this (what I describe below). But it is very simple, and if you do get it, it can be a valuable addition to your spiritual toolbox. STEP 1 — Point with your finger to an object across the room from you.

[Updated 10/16/22] We know nothing beyond our direct sensory perception, everything else is faith and fantasy. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article by clicking here. Contents [1] We Know Nothing Beyond Our Direct Sensory Perceptions — [1.1] Reality — [1.2] Fantasy — [1.3] Faith — [1.4] Direct Experience & Presence [2] Peter Brown — A Modern Nondualist — [2.1] What is Reality? — [2.2] …

How to be happy in your ‘ego-self’, ‘soul-self’, and ‘nondual-self’. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. I write a lot about our ego-self and soul-self. That is how I define my experience of our human existence. It has been my story of spiritual reality. I write about those 2 aspects because we can experience and talk about them…

[Updated April 3, 2022] How to know your ego, self, higher self, soul, spirit, and God/Source. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. I POSTED this meme (“You are always only talking to yourself” ⬇️) on my Facebook page. The simple reason I believe this is true is because, despite how diverse our experiences are, we are all “One”. …

[Updated Jan 25, 2022] Our physical reality is a dream waiting for us to awaken — but so is every other dimension of reality. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. Hello Alan Lew! Have you heard the comment “This world is like a lucid dream”? If so, may I know if you have information about this? For example: If superior dimensions are like a lucid dream too? Thank you! Dreams & Realities

[Updated 11/11/22] In Modern Nonduality, the end of spiritual seeking is the discovery of your True Self. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. Introduction In the article below (⬇️), I describe 4 types of nondualism: Radical Nondualism — Just This Modern Nondualism — Letting Go of the Ego Traditional Nondualism — Advaita, Buddhism, & Taoism Qualified Nondualism — Spiritual Dimensions

We travel to experience the magic of “effortless awareness” in the world around us. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this article for free by clicking here. This story started about a month ago. It is about how a self-realized state of consciousness can create a more meaningful travel experience. Around June 20, 2021, I was listening to an interview on ConsciousTV (YouTube) with David Bingham…

Zen Master Dogen on the difference between the world as the “illusion” we create & the world as the “awakening” inside us. — “To carry the self forward and illuminate myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and illuminate the self is awakening.“ — Dogen, in ‘Genjokoan’ I LOVE this saying from Zen Master Dogen (1200–1253 CE). I interpret these two lines as … To experience and act in the world…

Each perspective has a sliver of the truth. The whole, complete, or absolute truth contains all of those slivers. — Non-Medium subscribers can access this full article here. The Law of Attraction and Radical Nonduality are an example of two common New Age (or New Thought) spiritual beliefs that are the opposite of one another. The major differences are: Law of Attraction — assumes there is a doer (an ego)…