Since we’re spending a week talking about history, I’d like to run through some things that are being proven, scientifically, as simply not true. Things that we believe, have been believing for quite some time. One is survival of the fittest. Dog eat dog. This is proven as simply not true. If you look deeply …
A Week of History
Published: Sat, 12/09/23
A Week of History
Our knowledge doesn’t make us smart. The more things a person knows... doesn’t make them a genius. Even people like Einstein were very specific about that. There is a vast reservoir of human perception, of our brain itself, that is able to see things that have nothing to do with knowledge or facts. Could it be possible that our knowledge shuts off a good proportion of our brain so that we’re then not using the full thing? How do we calm that baby down so that we can let our full perception bloom forth? This is what the techniques of Nonduality are trying to show us: that you are not your thoughts, you are not the things you see, you are the vast seeing itself.
– We are Hypnotized by Our Perceptions –
We are hypnotized by our perceptions, mostly because we’re unwilling to see how shallow they are. What our understanding of deep history does, and what all the other spiritual masters have said, is useful and interesting, but it’s not the full story. It’s never the full story. This is what Nonduality is trying to tell us: that there is a bigger story and there is also the person who is absorbing this story. What Native spirituality tells us is that it’s possible to live within a story of inner connection that is so vast that from the beginning of your life and through the whole life, you know who you are. This is how the two things intersect.
Some Things That Just Aren’t True
Using the Full Brain Capacity
So, imagine the level of intelligence that it would take for a human being to live in a tribal society. You would have to know how to get along with everyone around you. You would have to know how to stand up and, with the people around you, walk out and find something to eat, …
Geniuses in Prehistory
We’re spending a week challenging the history that we’ve been taught and exploring how that informs our worldview, how it informs our sense of who we are, and how it can spur our experience of nonduality. Think way, way back in history. People have been here on Earth for a very long time but the …
Inside Abundance
We don’t need to manifest if we’re already living in total full abundance. All we really need to learn is to how to operate beautifully within that abundance. – Harmonious with each other – Human beings have every tool available to us to create a sustainable, harmonious life. One that works with human beings and …
The History of Manifestation
What we’re talking about this week is history and how it informs our worldview. A worldview is our deepest views of who we are, including how we fit in the world. We’re talking about the history we have been told, the history of who human beings are, and how it comes from a place of …
Rewriting the Human Story
If we want to rewrite the human story to give ourselves a more realistic view of who we are as human beings, we need to rethink the way that we see, uh, pre-civilized people. We are constantly told that they were miserable and dirty and hungry, and only lived to 30 years old, and it …
The Stories We’ve Been Told
The stories that we’ve been told about who we are are so deep in our consciousness that it takes a lot of work to get them out. One thing that you’ll notice about me is that I’m kind of snarky about, and critical of, the stories that come to us about Nonduality. That’s because those …
Our Bad History
The history that we’ve been taught in our Western culture shows human beings to be basically bad. We do really lots of bad things, and our history is about all the bad things that we’ve done. What if, instead, from day one of our lives, every single one of us was taught that human beings …
History is Written by the Conquerors
History is written by the conquerors. We all know this. How in the world does this apply to any kind of spirituality, or Nonduality, or native wisdom? Well… it’s because you and I, and all the people on this planet, are the result of the history that’s happened. Everything that our ancestors have done has …
Thoughts are Language
If we can start seeing our thoughts as language itself, it becomes a lot easier to start managing our internal landscape, because we know that language can be relearned. – Talking about History – This week we are talking about history and how the history that we have learned has created our world view… and …
Let’s talk about history
So let’s talk about history. They say that history is written by the conquerors… but have we looked deeply into what that means? First it helps to stretch the human story into a longer timeline. When we look at the full length of history there is something like 100,000 years of human beings on the …
Untraining Ourselves
What if our unenlightened state, where we find ourselves right now, is really just the result of training… and we could untrain ourselves. – Language and Thoughts – We’ve been talking this week about language and thoughts, and how that relates to non-duality and to Native spirituality. What we know about Native languages is that …
