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September Retreat in Southern France

February 13, 2015 No Comments

Meditation on Conscious Communion

January 12, 2015 2 Comments

Everything is Alive – everything is Conscious. All the stars, planets, all of the minerals, plants and animals: All are creative life forms within the One sea of consciousness. All are expressions of the single conscious breath, behind which, Life is Still, Silent,

The Birth of Spiritual Consciousness

December 14, 2014 No Comments

Spiritual Consciousness begins as a seed within the heart of every Woman and Man. This is the Birth of creative potentiality within, which takes place when you become Conscious of Being Conscious. This is spiritual awakening. It means you are

The Essence of Life

November 16, 2014 No Comments

This blog post is inspired by a walking meditation in forested mountains on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Meditation in the Forest. Through the conscious breath I felt a deepening connection with the underlying Spirit of Life. On the surface of

One Breath Meditation

October 14, 2014 No Comments

Corsican Sunset On Sun warmed rock, a gentle wind caressing my skin, the deepening rhythmic pulse of the sea fills my senses, opening out into the fathomless deep of creative potential. Sun enraptured rock, the earth rising up blood-red into

The Kingdom of Heaven

September 23, 2014 No Comments

The Kingdom of Heaven is Present within you here, now. The spiritual teachings contained in the Bible can be summed up by this simple phrase. When you are Present with all your attention, and all thinking subsides, you begin to

Awakening

September 5, 2014 No Comments

Sunrise from the Cave of the Revelation, former Temple to the Goddess Artemis, Grikos beach, Patmos, Greece. Spiritual awakening is not personal; it is freedom from all ego identity and its resultant suffering. Spiritual awakening is part of the collective awakening

Be Still and Know

July 29, 2014 No Comments

Be still, become silent within (no mind), and know, as revelation, the “I” that is Elohim: The presence of Absolute Life; Total Consciousness. This “I” is the arising (spiritual awakening) out of all that is unconscious in humanity. This “I” is the arising consciousness

Meditation

June 9, 2014 No Comments

Presence is the essence of all sentient life that surrounds you, and is within you at all times and in all places. To enter the deeper dimension that is present within you, here, now, requires no mind, no thoughts, just

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