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How Does The Law of Attraction Work?

How Does The Law of Attraction Work?

The so-called “Law of Attraction” (as seen in movies like “The Secret” and “What the bleep do we know”) maintains that our thoughts create our reality. This idea ranges from thoughts forming our interpretations or perceptions of reality, to thoughts causing our...

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What is The Purpose of Life?

What is The Purpose of Life?

How we approach to answer this existential question first depends on our belief in nihilism, creationism, evolutionary theory, intelligent design, or a co-creative impulse. Out of our answer typically arise different viewpoints about our biological purpose/imperative...

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Developing a Meditation Habit

Developing a Meditation Habit

You may have heard of people talking about the radical transformations they have undergone through meditation. Join us to share your experiences if you are trying to continue meditating, have trouble developing habits, and even start to doubt the reality of the...

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What is The Pain Body?

What is The Pain Body?

In his book, The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle talks a lot about the pain body. To him, it represents old emotional pain that we all carry around inside of us and, when triggered, controls our thinking and behavior in negative aggressive or defensive ways. In our...

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Is There Karma?

Is There Karma?

Karma originated in Indian religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, but is also used in the West to mean that good deeds will be rewarded with good results, and bad deeds with bad results. This idea is captured in the popular saying “What goes around comes around” and...

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How Can We Attain a Still Mind?

How Can We Attain a Still Mind?

We will first explore that “still mind” is a paradox, because the mind can never be still. Like a river, it needs the flow of time to exist. As a consequence, it also can’t understand how to make itself still. You will then learn why we can only point to stillness as...

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Who Are We If We Are Not Ourselves?

Who Are We If We Are Not Ourselves?

Eckhart Tolle says “you are not your mind”. But who are we if we are not our thoughts and sense of self? If all the layers of mind or ego (the “I”) drop away, like in deep dreamless sleep, then we cease to exist. So this seems to be an unanswerable question, at least...

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What is Spiritual Materialism?

What is Spiritual Materialism?

Simply put, it is creating a new Ego identity out of spiritual experiences. Many spiritual seekers, practitioners, healers, and even teachers fall into this trap. They incessantly talk about their transpersonal experiences, self-perceived realizations, spiritual...

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What is The Pre-Trans Fallacy?

What is The Pre-Trans Fallacy?

A common problem, and actually the definition of New-Age thought and spirituality, is that its adherents commit the pre-trans or pre-post fallacy. They confuse pre-rational childish or magical beliefs with transrational experiences, because they are both irrational....

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Is Our Mind Creating Our Reality?

Is Our Mind Creating Our Reality?

There are three dimensions to what we call “reality”. (1) The Real or essence, which exists independent of human knowledge or an observer, representing the underlying generative (causal) mechanisms or structures or fields (or powers) that co-create the flux of...

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Evolutionary Enlightenment

Evolutionary Enlightenment

Living in “The NOW” or “Present Moment” is a huge step forward in our spiritual development and has been considered for eons to be the ultimate spiritual attainment. But resent history also teaches us about the evolution of consciousness and cultures. Non-Dual...

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Are There Past Lives and Reincarnation?

Are There Past Lives and Reincarnation?

The notion of reincarnation and the concept of past lives has existed for thousands of years, spanning back to the ancient Celtic, Greek, Asian and Indian traditions. Goethe wrote: “I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to...

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How to Find Peace and Happiness?

How to Find Peace and Happiness?

We find inner peace when we fully surrender to what is. When this inner peace is projected outward, we help to create a more peaceful world. We learn to surrender through integral mindfulness practices. It is important to understand the difference between surrender...

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What is The Soul and Spirit?

What is The Soul and Spirit?

Most people can differentiate between their body, mind, feelings, and emotions. And some people have a sense about their personality types and personal preferences. The exploration of ourselves becomes a little bit more obscure when we look at the unconscious...

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Is There Unconditional Love?

Is There Unconditional Love?

The answer depends on our definition of love. As long as the definition includes the mind, feelings or actions in time and space, which is absolutely reasonable, love is always conditional or local. Otherwise, we would fall for what is called “The Myth of the...

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Do We Have Free Will?

Do We Have Free Will?

From a materialistic/deterministic perspective, our bodies and brains respond to internal and external impulses before we even become aware of them. This is essential for our survival, as it would be impossible for us humans to exist without these instinctual and...

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What is the Ego?

What is the Ego?

In spiritual teachings, the Ego means a false, separate, or fearful sense of self that cuts us off from ourselves, others and our surroundings. By transcending the ego, we awaken from this false sense of ourselves to our true nature. In psychology, we often talk about...

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Why is Your Cat Not Enlightened?

Why is Your Cat Not Enlightened?

Many people and spiritual teachers have a sense that their animals, and especially cats, are Enlightened. They feel that way, because animals don’t seem to have painful memories of the past and fears (or hopes) for the future. In addition, they have what we call an...

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Waking Up and Growing Up

Waking Up and Growing Up

Most spiritual seekers and teachers don’t understand the important difference between “waking up” or Ego Transcendence, and “growing up” or Ego (healthy self) development. This is one of the most important insights of Integral theory that is encapsulated in the...

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What is Idiot Compassion?

What is Idiot Compassion?

In this week’s group, we will explore “idiot compassion”. You will learn the difference between authentic compassion, which means “to suffer with”, and leads to actions to support others in reducing their suffering by “getting their act together”. In contrast, idiot...

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