Reclaiming our Authority

Reclaiming our Authority

The Bhagavad Gita has a verse which I paraphrase: “reclaim the kingdom ruled by the senses.” This verse states that we have given away our kingdom to our mind’s addiction to the pull of the outer world, the world of the senses. What does this mean? The kingdom is our...
Stand Alone with God and Truth

Stand Alone with God and Truth

This post was originally a New Dharma Conference Call by Sat Shree. Tonight I’m going to talk about building ‘Self’. I was reading an opinion piece in the New York Times, by a well known columnist, and he was describing the environment at university campuses and...
The Soul

The Soul

The earliest surviving  “Western philosophy” western philosophical view believed that the soul was that which gave the body life. The soul was considered the incorporeal or spiritual ‘breath’ which animates the living organism. It is similar in...
Human Maturity & the Spiritual Path

Human Maturity & the Spiritual Path

[NOTE: This post coincides with the Portland Conference Call from September 23, 2014]   You might say that evidence of human maturity is humility. Life is a process if we know how to take advantage of its lessons. It can help us become aware of our limitations as...
Emergence

Emergence

When I look from the broad perspective, it is clear we all are engaged in a process of emergence. In one sense each of us are the sum total of possibilities, some manifested, some not, that are inherent in universal  forces and factors that shape all of us. I am, as...