Truth Is All That Matters

It has been some time now …

2009-09-04T14:44:01-07:00

It has been some time now since I've posted to this blog, mostly because there is so much to do in the way of practical maintenance of the material foundation of our work that little time is left for the work itself beyond the in-person and online meetings. Financial management, website maintenance and development, equipment maintenance, IRS filings, editing and publishing audio files, video files, editing and typesetting transcripts and so forth are all extremely time-consuming, but inescapable necessities with no one but Carla and I to do them. And this is to say nothing of the thousands of wonderful emails I receive from people who express their gratitude, their progress in vichara, their problems, and their solutions. I read every single email, but I've only been able to reply to maybe ten percent of them. There are many, many more that I would love to answer, but just cannot...

Our Work

2009-06-20T19:11:25-07:00

We have been in this work for ten years now, and over that time much has changed in the way in which I speak about what I see. From the beginning, when we started, I could see very clearly what I wanted to say, but I had no vocabulary apart from ideas from philosophy and mystical spirituality to use in communicating this that I see so clearly, and this vocabulary turns out to be too limited for the task of speaking of so simple a thing — strangely enough, I think this may actually be because of its obsession with limitlessness. But over time, much of the spiritual and metaphysical idiom has fallen away from me, and I have come to see that there is no better way to speak of these matters than in plain English (or plain whatever language is your own). Because of this, much of what...

Look At Yourself

2009-05-17T10:23:50-07:00

I want to invite you to enter into an ongoing conversation with us about the human predicament, its cause and its cure. By human predicament I mean the fact that a creature with such promise as humanity should, in such a short time, bring itself to the actual brink of extinction as a result of the efforts of each and every one of us to follow the fear of individual extinction into an endless project of survival at any cost, to protect ourself, to save ourself, from life itself. This conversation has actually been going on for quite a long time — for thousands of years in one form or another — and until now its product for the most part has been a wondrous collection of understandings, insights, trance states and practices that focus on efforts to purify in one way or another the states of mind and the...