Joan Tollifson, Aug. 20, 2023 Right Now, Just As It Is It’s been hot and dry here in southern Oregon where I live, with dry lightning strikes and raging wildfires above and below the town where I live and often toxic air quality as a result. Last night the air quality improved for a while,…
Last week, we talked about the default setting of the mind, as opposed to deliberate choosing. It was pointed out, that the default setting would pretty much be a function of past conditioning, hence reflecting all the identifications with the belief systems, concepts, and qualities of character that make up the sense of identity (me,…
One on One’s The teacher, the medium, the channel and the guru, typically viewed as the one in the know. The student, the seeker, the one exploring and looking for guidance, or simply connection to vibrational levels. These are some of the roles played by the participants of the game. Script, director, score, set and…
Joan Tollifson- Quoted from her Facebook page I used to imagine that someday I would arrive. I’d be fully enlightened. I’d never again bite my fingers, lose my temper, feel insulted, get upset, or experience dark moods. I’d be a wonderful, generous, kind, compassionate, loving person—all the time. I’d always be “present” and “aware,” never…
Quoted from Jeff Carreira’s writing When we experience cosmic consciousness, we recognize that our awareness is the awareness of the universe itself. We are taught to think of our awareness as something that emerges from our own minds and bodies. In awakening to cosmic consciousness, we see that awareness is flowing through us like wind…
There is being without central hub of a personal identityThere is simply the experience of wholeness – which includes all There is experience – and no one to experience itThere is the full spectrum of appearances – yet no one that claims ownership of it There is life as an energetic, vibrational process – streaming…
Theme triggered by quote from a website about “Awakening”
Pedronimo Creations Personal reality is an imagination – sourced by the conditioned mind As it drains out of its vessel, the human body, the vessel opens to stream the Divine The apparent form dilutes into the formless expression of the Tao Brahman, God, Source – whatever label it is carrying – it is Wholeness that…
In the-hum meetings attendees have been frequently exploring the role of thoughts in our lives, and how thoughts are being handled in mediation practice. What are thoughts? For most people, they seem to occur in uttering of language, coming through as the proverbial “voice inside our heads”. Ephemeral by nature, they seem to emerge out…