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 […]
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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.
Heaven, Nirvana & Enlightenment
Ancient words that point at an experience that anyone can have who is open to it. Modern understanding has given us new insights into ancient methods that help a person open up to these experiences or states of consciousness. It is also important to recognize that a large segment of society does not want anyone […]
Ben Vizy’s Podcast ‘Free Association’ with me
I met this guy, Ben Vizy, at a Community Cycles gathering and after talking with me for a few minutes he asked me to come to do a podcast with him. Since I thoroughly enough talking to people about deep topics I accepted and here is the podcast that resulted. Ben Vizy’s Podcast with Jim […]
An Enlightened Asshole Starts Speaking Again
I did my first YouTube video in 11 years and I hope to start producing more videos soon. You can watch it here and follow my channel: An Enlightened Asshole Starts Speaking Again I love feedback, particularly constructive criticism, but any judgments and criticism are useful.
Getting on the right track to long-term recovery
by Adam Cook (www.addicationhub.org) Rebuilding a life after addiction isn’t easy. Addressing the physical and psychological issues that caused your substance abuse in the first place is an around-the-clock battle in many cases. Combined with the pressure of providing for your needs and those of your family, it can feel like too much to bear. To […]
Mindful Relating
Last night I went to the Trident Philosophy Group where the topic of discussion was about “What is Love?” We had a great discussion and I had forgotten what it was like to be around people who have the capacity to talk about things that might be deep or challenging. Most of the groups I […]
Heaven is a Choice
I wonder how many people are aware that life can be experienced as Perfect, Heavenly or Nirvana right NOW. It does not seem to be that a lot of people are aware that they can have a perfect life, live in a perfect world and have all the peace, happiness, joy and love that they […]