The difference between feeling love and being it. What have you done today to serve humanity? It's a trick question. The truth is you serve whether you are conscious of service to others or not. This is what I was shown on the other side. You serve everyone, every moment, simply by breathing. That's right. Your next breath is already an act of service. The fact that you exist here at all serves. Service is the baseline condition of being alive. Let that simmer for a moment. T

What’s keeping you from enlightenment. The closer you get to complete spiritual understanding, the less you can stay attached to certain things in your life. For example: who you are, and the roles you play. Even the things that have quietly supported your identity for years. This is the part no one wants to talk about regarding "The Path”. You want the knowledge. You want the access to something divine, something greater than yourself. But almost without exception, you want

The tool of the divine. If you are reading this, you have suffered. You have suffered physically, mentally, and spiritually because to exist here in reality is to suffer. It isn’t a malfunction in the design. It is the design. That sentence is where most people get stuck. It is also where most spiritual teaching gets dishonest. When we see or experience suffering, we want the suffering to be an accident, a glitch in the world or our lives, or something a more evolved and ben

For those ready to see. I recently returned from a trip to Los Angeles, where I gave a talk. And once again, remarkably, they were there. In the hotel room the night before. In the car on the way. And in the room where I spoke. One of them appearing just above a woman's head as she asked me a question about her spiritual path. A basketball sized point of divine bluish-white light that brightened, held, and then was simply gone by the time anyone else could look. I don't ofte

Recognizing you in them. People have been people-ing since the beginning of time itself. People behave, act, move, muse, do, and reach for things and outcomes in life based on categories and motives which drive the action. Good people, bad people, smart people, sad people, happy people. The definitions and categories change, but the human animal generally does not. What does it really mean to be a person in the world, or "one of the people"? The Actions of Others Most people

The dance between selflessness and protection. Most people live in fear. They fear success. Or failure. Or harm, injury, death, etc. These fears are real, but they are not the deepest one. The deepest fear is selflessness. It makes sense. Selflessness is the loss of identity and its protective measures. However, these are the exact things standing in the way of the deepest form of love, consideration, and service. So the fear of it is really a fear of love itself, or more pr

The gift you've been trained to overlook. I recently had an experience in the high desert in Utah and one of the messages I left with is: Joy is not optional for the spiritually activated. It is mandatory. And I see many spiritualists leave behind what they thought was “joy” to live a rather cardboard tasting life in the name of deep connection. But what I was shown runs contrary to that practice. Recognizing Joy When I speak of joy I am not referring to the joy you have bee

Why our definition limits our experience with "It". I've spent the last few days teaching amongst the beauty in Sedona, Arizona. The landscape is unlike anywhere else I've been. Red rock that seems to hold light instead of just reflecting it. And yet what struck me more than the rock was the people. The ones who showed up to sit with me, to ask hard questions, to sit in silence afterward. There was a vastness in them too. A beauty that doesn't reduce to a single word. That's

The implementation of conscious living. The world is being redefined. You can feel it. It is in the instability of institutions, the fracturing of certainties, the sense that the ground beneath ordinary life is shifting in ways that cannot be reversed. Values are changing, degrading. And the world is shifting into a phase of destruction and rebirth. This disruption, although temporary, is a threshold. What you do at the threshold matters, especially now. "The Work" is what al

Unity as Love. There is something in every human being that recognizes incompleteness. Something of a signal. A quiet knowing that what you are carrying was never meant to be carried alone. That the love you are capable of is larger than what you have been able to express. Most people spend their lives explaining that feeling away, or filling it with things that almost work. This post is about what that feeling actually is, and what it is really pointing towards. The Desert O

Recognizing Egoic vs Divine guidance I get asked this question often: "How do I tell the difference between egoic communication and divine guidance?" This post will help to clarify some of what you may experience when I suggest people close their eyes and ask to be guided. There is something that became incredibly obvious on the return from my NDE. The Divine communicates. Constantly. Not metaphorically. Directly. Recognizably, and with a precision the ego cannot manufacture.

What moves through the opening. What I found on the other side of the threshold of death was not separation. It was the opposite. A union so complete it made every boundary I had ever believed in feel like a joke I'd been repeating to myself. When I came back, I came back knowing one thing above all else: we have never been disconnected. Not once. Not from each other, not from the divine intelligence in the room, not from love itself. And yet. Here you are, guarding yourselve

The sticking point between you and freedom. In two days it will be three years since I died. I do not say that to be dramatic. I say it because everything I am about to share comes from that side of the experience. What I know, I know because I have been where doubt cannot follow. And I have spent three years watching doubt keep people from what I know is real and available to them. This post is for those people. The Invisible Stall Something happens at a certain point on t

The question of your lifetime. As old beliefs fall away and the scaffolding of a life built on accumulation and achievement starts to feel less solid than it once did, a question surfaces that no amount of achievement can answer. Why am I here? This question is arriving more and more. I receive it in emails, podcasts, Zoom talks, audience events and it isn't slowing down. Most of the time the question sneaks in with a quiet or even silent desperation. The usually unsaid or wh

Where knowing becomes being. "Know the truth, and it will set you free." That is the promise of the enlightenment process. Study, practice, refine. Move toward unity through knowledge and understanding. It is a worthy path. Noble. But it has many steps. It's incremental, and is driven by insight and the gradual recognition of what is real. But there is a state the enlightenment process cannot take you to by process alone. Embodiment. Christ consciousness. It does not refine t

The love you didn't know you were missing. Self love isn't discussed enough. You could say that it is ignored in a way. It's not typically found to be a part of societal norms. And spiritually, most people are so busy reaching outside of themselves for a solution to their awakening or suffering that they don't give it a second thought. In most circumstances, earthly existence tends to be reduced to an exercise where you are here to grind out a life and love those who cross yo

Why you...were never meant to win. It's the tenth round and you've been fighting for what feels like eternity. You're exhausted. Your head is spinning. Nothing in the world makes sense and you can't understand why it won't. But it won't. Ever. And still you fight. Day in, day out. Challenged, again. Challenged, again. Challenged, again. On one side of this fight is everything you think you know. Your values. Your sense of what is right and what is wrong. Your vision of how th

The one degree of separation between exhaustion and peace. Most people have heard the phrase. It appears religious in its origin, but the teaching it points to is older than any single tradition. It has survived because it points at something a minority of people can recognize in themselves. Even before they can articulate it. You are here, in existence, right now. You operate and move through what you believe to be your life. You take up space in it, and you participate in i

You are not the problem. You are just early. If you are reading this, you are probably awakening. The world is opening for you. You might be sitting in your favorite spot to meditate, feeling that current of something divine move through you. It is palpable. You can feel the light of the heavens. And then - bang! Your significant other walks in and says, "You working on your kooky woo stuff again?" Zap. You fall back to earth, cartwheeling like a squirrel in a tornado. The in

Wake up to a deeper reality. There is a way of moving through existence that feels like living. But it isn't. You can see, but you do not really see. You can hear, but you do not really hear. You respond to what is around you, make decisions, form relationships, build a life, make comparisons and yet something fundamental seems to be absent. You are present in the way that a machine is present: you process, react, calculate, define. But that state is the state of being asleep