I’ve noticed an interesting trend in recent times which people are calling ‘Awakening from the awakening.” The viewpoint is that people are using transcendental practices and seeking of spiritual experiences to avoid the grounded everyday experience. It happens a lot because there’s a grasping onto those transcendent, magical experiences, like an addiction to a drug. Yes, even healing from trauma can become an addiction if it’s used as a way of attaining certain states or fee

There is a state of being where every moment seems like a magical 'clicking into place' of the universe. It's as if you dissolve into a macrocosmic wider 'flow', the sole purpose of which is to illuminate to us how to be our highest self. Maybe you've experienced it too. Moments when 'coincidences' stack up to a point where they just can't be coincidences any more. You have the feeling of being in the right place at the right time, even if you can't know what the outcome will

I've just finished reading the biography of Milerepa, a Tibetan Yogi who lived 1000 years ago. It has been an extremely interesting read - especially to see the methods of attaining enlightenment back in times gone by when things were 'simpler' yet physically harder, along with the cultural Tibetan influences at the time. It has been an inspiring read, yet many things are not translatable to those living in modern times who also wish to attain similar states. Complete detachm