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,…
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”
Meditation offers an opportunity to allow the contracted energy of the “me” with all its drama, stories, memories of a past and assumptions about a future of a fictitious character to soften and expand. Formless energy expresses through form, and as boundaries turn permeable, distinctions turn fuzzy – allowing subjects and objects to collapse into…
Already there is that place which is, already, trouble-less… It has no trouble at all… When it is noticed that there wasn’t any thought in the first place… it was just This space appearing as those thoughts… -Nkosi It is obvious and effortless, without purpose and meaningless – it is “as it is” – and…
The voice inside your head … “The voice in the head isn’t talking to anyone – and there’s no one there to hear it” Michael Jeffreys by way of Alan Jaeger Skipping stones on the water Beliefs While this wasn’t addressed directly in yesterday’s the-hum – it feels like backdrop cover that underlies much of…