(notes from my Oct 22, 2016 sitting about the ‘Guru Syndrome’ and projection) Teacher’s responsibilities help students see their own wisdom – be careful to no over-identify with being “the source of wisdom”affirm the student’s own authority, and suppor …
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Guru Dynamics – Good vs Bad
As soon as you create a role or set up a hierarchy, projection begins. It begins immediately when we become mentors, and amplifies when we become interning teachers, swells when we become full teachers, and crescendos when we become senior teache …
Intro to Steve
What do we mean by consciousness? audio format
Cielle’s video with the title “What do we mean by Consciousness?” is now available in “audio only” format. Click here to listen. The page that opens gives you an option to download the audio file.
Social Dimensions of Awakening
Embodied awakening is a deeply incarnated and humanizing process that simultaneously anchors our identity in our unbounded nature. As unconscious material arises for integration and healing our awakening deepens, and we begin to realize the paradox of …
Poem: The Lover
By Margit Bantowsky Tear down this house! Run naked toward the Moon and tumble down the mountainside in her arms. Throw away all your straight-jacket dreams of safe worlds and metered days, your heart has already been broken. Jump into th …
Awakening is Mind Blowing
If you’ve been a seeker for a while, then you are probably aware, at least conceptually, of some of the paradoxes of Being. I sometimes like to imagine two of the core paradoxes as a vertical axis intersecting a horizontal one: — Vertical Paradox: I a …
Poem: Home
An Angel fell from the sky one day. You see, the problem was, she thought she was supposed to fly as high as possible. No one gave her a guidebook, or told her the Real Deal About Angels. All she saw was posters in the mall of Angels ascending, smiling …
Awakening for Atheists
Note: this is just one of many ways of looking at things…. For the sake of discussion, let’s divide reality into two domains: the exterior, or objective world, and the interior, or subjective world. The study of the exterior world is considered to be …
The Rot: a Deep Soul-level Reconfiguration
As we each take up our torch of self-awareness to explore and deepen into our multi-dimensionality in the Rot, we free ourselves from our outmoded ways of being from the past. As we investigate our shadow aspects and relinquish self-judgment about how …