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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

Feeling your way through existence. Most people spend their lives at war with themselves and have no idea there's another way. You are the complete package. And with that package comes two very different, very important feelings. One is the feeling of being human. The other is the feeling of embodied love. Most will only recognize the human. It's the complicated part of you that you've known since birth. It has a name, a sex, an age, schooling, and an occupation. It has needs

You are the beauty you recognize. Your existence is a single conscious breath. Birth to death. One breath. What we experience as years is, in truth, a fleeting spark. Here and then gone. I was shown this while on the other side during my NDE. Life appeared as nothing more than a spark, a flash of light, hot and red, vanishing almost before it appeared. And yet within that spark, something extraordinary is available. Something that points directly to what you really are. The G

The face of desire. There is a part of you that wants things. It wants to be right. It wants to be loved. It wants the performance of being loved. It wants to be seen, validated, coddled, admired, and protected. It wants the next thing, and when it gets the next thing, it wants the thing after that. It is desire, personified. It is the mechanism through which you experience this life as a “separate” self, moving through a world of other “separate” selves. This is the ego . I

Acknowledging the unseen There is something missing from most modern spiritual teaching. Not out of negligence. For the most part, the teachers seem sincere. It is difficult to point someone toward something you have not yet encountered yourself. I see it often in the people I give guidance to. They have done the work. They have developed the observational state, and carry the ability to witness their thoughts, their reactions, their patterns without being controlled by them.

The superpower hidden within observation How do you see the world? Through the lens of good and bad? Through the horrors you've heard about or witnessed? Most people never stop to ask this question, and that is precisely the problem. Unless you are aware, the way you look at something is not neutral. Your gaze is generative. It doesn't just observe, it participates in creation. This is the spiritual gaze, and it may be the most underestimated superpower available to you. The

Her Presence Beyond Name There is a presence that has been known across all cultures and belief systems. From all times, by countless names, none of which can capture her fully. The Divine Mother. The Divine Feminine. The source from which all life emerges. She is the living, breathing reality of unconditional love that holds all of existence. She is the ground of being itself. Is she female…yes and no. Is she a form… yes and no. Humanity has tried, across millennia, to give

Linear beliefs about a non-linear existence All paths, you could say, have one thing in common: a distance to travel. As we walk through our incarnation we believe we are headed somewhere. A place where there is more. And in order to get there, we must "walk." So "who" created the spiritual path that you are "walking"? Who blazed the trail? On your spiritual path, is there a part of the path to help you understand the beauty experienced in a sunset on a beach? How about under

Experiencing the Unknown... Awakening. It's about peace and light and transcendence. Meditation. Bliss. Finally understanding the nature of reality. A new perspective and a return to the truth of what you really are. Right? Partially true. But it's also about much much more. It can sometimes be about experiencing things that don't make sense. Things that were always there but couldn't be perceived until your eyes were open. And I don't mean metaphorically there. I mean always

Choice D: None of the Above Yes, we have free will. Sort of. But it isn't about the association it has with the values of the A, B, C, D multiple choice options we believe ourselves to have. It's more along the lines of choice "D", none of the above. We walk through existence with the ability to make at least one choice. That much is true. But not all choices are created equal. And the freedom we think we're exercising? It's mostly an illusion carefully designed to keep us ex

The Triangle For those of you who are reading this, there is a good chance you and I are living in different realities. The realities overlap, but are also comparably different. It's the equivalent of looking at spilled gasoline in a puddle. Depending on your angle of sight you will see a different color. Same gasoline, same puddle, but different experience. You could call Reality the manifestation of Consciousness . It presents itself in a way that guides our experience base

The magic between the lines Since my return from death, I've noticed two distinct ways people receive what I share. Some feel the message that lives between the words I speak, a recognition that happens beneath language. In doing so, they experience and recognize truth, sometimes physically. This shift happens not because of the words themselves, but because of what they recognize within, through the heart. Others process the information through the intellect, comparing what

What Death Taught Me About Time In death, I experienced the disappearance of time. It was just...gone. Things happened instantaneously and simultaneously, while also seemingly drawn out for what we could consider to be eons. Ultimately, there was a revelation in what I was shown that may help you more easily navigate your existence and its association with time. When Time Stopped During my near-death experience, time ceased to function in any recognizable way. Events occurred

Why Your Definition Is Keeping You From It Consciousness. It's probably the most overused term in spiritual circles today. We talk about it like it is a defined and measurable aspect of our reality. We speak about it like we can study it, control it, and understand it through an intellectual lens. However, the truth is far deeper and far more complicated than what your favorite guru or scientist might be telling you. What I Learned About Consciousness During my near-death exp