Growing into Being deals with the journey into consciousness, into yourself, towards remembering who you really are beneath the everyday, surface-level you. It outlines the different possible paths to get there, and discusses the most important issues you’ll face along the way, including inner space, inner energy, ego, enlightenment, love, pain and fear. Deep down…
The ego reacts the same way to all objects in its field of perception: sizing up, analysing, judging everyone and everything, in order to categorise things as either safe or unsafe, friend or foe. Whatever you deem safe becomes attractive and desirable, a potential object of love, something to be possessed. Those objects deemed to…
…For most people, yes, forgiveness is inextricably tied to forgetfulness. Think of the saying: ‘Only time can heal.’ Why? Because over time you have a chance to forget the pain and injustices inflicted upon you. Let’s be fair: this process often does seem to work well enough with day-to-day problems. Some pain, though, is simply…
“…When the chakras begin to manifest, either spontaneously or through concerted spiritual practices, they reveal themselves most commonly through the perception of subtle light, subtle sound and subtle physical sensation, such as tingling, vibration or temperature change. In a sense, all of these phenomena concern vibration in various aspects. Light is simply electromagnetic vibration as…
In Growing into Being, enlightenment is described as a process consisting of four basic stages: separation – believing – knowing – being one. These are referred to in the passage below. “Whether or not you choose to believe or not believe, ultimately either decision is based on a leap of faith. How can it be…
“… In the long run, if you do have the resolve, then happiness and truth will eventually begin to converge. In order to reach this point, though, the only possible way forward is in relentlessly pursuing a path of self-honesty: the Way of the Heart. In contrast, the path of happiness can take you only…
On our inability to remain mindful and present, on why a flood of thoughts constantly pulls our attention away from the present moment, now, and into that all too familiar world of internal dialogues and inner fantasy: “… Why do people love music, films or any old entertainment for that matter? Why are street-side cafés…
Synchronicities are often hailed as ‘signs from the universe’. Loosely speaking they are, but I would also draw a distinction here, describing them more precisely as a sign that you are in a flow with the universe. As much as the surface language of both expressions may sound quite similar, the wording belies fundamentally different…
Tallis Shivantar 