Somebody just pointed out that OUR problem is not being Left or Right, it is EXTREMISM of being either the Left or Right. Boulder is more Left and has more extremist lefties and Colorado Springs is more Right and has more extremist right-wingers. So my question is/was how can we personally, locally, engage extremism in […]
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Why Don’t I “Just Do It?”
Why don’t I just post things on social media? Something, anything? I have a blog that I have not posted to in months if not years. I have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and I just don’t post things. Could it be because I am lazy? Could it be because I am fearful? […]
Loving the Drama…of Death
Yesterday was a death day for me as a friend of mine, a cat friend, died as I was holding him. It was a dad process. After he died the emotions rose up within me and I had to go outside to dwell in the sorrow for a few minutes. This whole experience was very […]
Meditation in Conversation
I accidentally discovered a “spiritual” hack, a way to dramatically improve the effectiveness of my meditations on the quality of my life experience. AND, this hack also dramatically improve the quality of my relationships and experience with other people. I call this discovery Meditation in Conversation. That is because I am basically meditating or practicing […]
Where have all the Seekers gone?
In my town, Boulder, Colorado, there used to be lots of Seekers, spiritual seekers. Today, it seems the town is mostly filled with seekers of money. Oh, there are the Fighters here too, people who want to fight anyone who disagrees with them. These are the those who think of themselves as the Left or Right, […]
Communication Skills
We all have been taught or trained to have emotional reactions to words. And we have been taught to lie to ourselves and blame others for our uncomfortable emotional reactions. For thousands of years, people have tried to encourage and teach others to take responsibility for their own reactions, and to practice not […]
Combining Both Eastern and Western Spiritual Strategies
The eastern spiritual traditions are about finding peace; the western traditions are about passion. By combining BOTH strategies we can expedite our spiritual evolution and increase the quality of our life experience. In this podcast, I talk about how I unintentionally combined the strategies of the east and west and how that profoundly helped me […]
Governments are Inherently Evil
The difference between a governmental type organization and a nongovernmental type organization is that governments have the right to use force and/or violence to accomplish their mission. We look at forced sex as rape. We call forced labor as slavery. It is not that sex or labor are considered bad or evil, but once […]
Hacking Meditation
A new episode from The Enlightened Rebel podcast.
Enlightenment is Open to Anyone Who is Open to It
Who can find Enlightenment now? Anyone open to it.