Essays in Consciousness

You will find here all the posts from the category: ‘Essays in Consciousness’. They are longer essay-like texts on a particular subject. They are presented to you either in a blog list or individually for an easy browsing…

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Essays in Consciousness (in a blog list)

– God’s Flower Bed (an enquiry on our ability to choose our thoughts or not…)

– Anatomy of a Desire (an exploration of desire in matters of truth…)

– The Intimacy of Experience (on not being shaped by experience…)

– The End of Self-Improvement (on the impossibility of self-improvement…)

– God Unveiled (an explanation of the nature and reality of God’s being…)

– An Explanation of Reality (on how the reality of everything is only being…)

– Fear and Trembling (an inquiry into the notion of the fear of god…)

– Cleansing the Temple (on how truth is not to be bought in the marketplace…)

– Christ (noun) (an exploration of the meanings behind the word ‘Christ’…)

– peace (noun) (an exploration of the meanings behind the word ‘peace’…)

– The Ultimate Absolution (an exploration into the true nature of forgiveness…)

– The Impossibility of Knowing (some reflections about knowing and not knowing…)

– Awareness is All (an exploration into the nature of experience…)

– An Invitation from Silence (an exploration linking silence to pure being…)

– Humanity’s Healers (an essay exploring humanity’s place in our being…)

– Defining Enlightenment (an essay enquiring into the words for enlightenment…)

– The Riddle of Ignorance (some reflections about the ignorance of man…)

– The Names of God (an exploration of the names given to god…)

– The Guard and the Prison Breaker (an inquiry into the question of freedom…)

– The Surreptitious Thief (a study of the ego…)

– A Frame for Life (an exploration into the nature of time and space)

– The Price of Immortality (on the nature and meaning of death)

– The Everlasting Arms (on the subject of surrender)

– The Poor Man (Meister Eckhart describes what is true poverty)

– The Chariot and the Charioteer (on the nature and reality of free will)

– The Inconceivable Actuality Here-Now (a text by Joan Tollifson)

– Karma or the Monastic Life (exploring Karma and right action)

– Tantra, the Song of Life (an exploration of the Tantric path)

– The Mystique of Freedom (an essay by Bob O’Hearn)

– Bhakti, the Song of Love (a description of the path of devotion)

– Jñāna, the Song of the Self (a description of the path of knowledge)

– The Distant Lord (a reflection on our relationship with wilderness)

– The Churches of Rome (delving into the meaning behind the churches of Rome)

– Speaking of Shiva (to explore the meaning behind Shiva’s many forms)

– The Path (a playful exploration into the nature of the spiritual path)

– Destroyer of Darkness (on the nature and function of the spiritual teacher)

– Blown Out (to delve into the nature of Awakening)

– Bhāratā Mā (on the discovery of India’s spiritual heart)

– On Labyrinths, Grace and the Via Creativa (an essay by Miriam Louisa Simons)

– Suffering Leads to Joy (a text on the subject of suffering)

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Photo by Alain Joly 

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