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The single biggest problem in spiritual development is the overabundance of different metaphor systems via different religious and spiritual traditions, different psychological models, different healing processes, different cosmologies, etc. And many, many modern teachers compound
the problem by shoving them all together as if they actually all mean the same thing. Sorry to break it to you, but they don't.

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The single biggest problem in spiritual development is the overabundance of different metaphor systems via different religious and spiritual traditions, different psychological models, different healing processes, different cosmologies, etc. And many, many modern teachers compound
the problem by shoving them all together as if they actually all mean the same thing. Sorry to break it to you, but they don't.

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A very interesting feature of meaning is that you can't give it, tell it to other people or force it on them. They can only experience it by being connected, by the actual act of being part of everything, by removing the veils around themselves and participating...

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are like moldy spaghetti...

Why are we stuck on accessing our source through the antiquated and arcane metaphor systems of yesterday? Just like anything else...

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Learning to become the natural self is at first quite a bit like trying to navigate in a house in which you can't see anything the way you would normally. The light produced by the false self only illuminates objects of its own creation and we mistakenly believe this is the only way to perceive reality...

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Today is a break from the normal posting due to a huge amount of work going into the new site, the upcoming online spiritual development course and two new books in the works. Please stop by the new site and register for our e-mail list to hear an audio version of the first chapter of my book, Finding Fulfillment with Intuisdom, and receive a copy of Intuisdom Guide to Meditation by e-mail...

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Here's the mystery: How are they teaching something so completely simple and calling it a mystery?

Real spiritual development is about as far away from hocus pocus as you could possibly imagine...

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We can make it so difficult!

How we experience it is purely a perceptual matter and everything that can come with it is either tossed aside or lived with simple perceptual differences.

So what is it composed of?...

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In our everyday world we so often feel that we have to take a stand in how we perceive things, that we have to find and apply an orientation that is US to what might otherwise just be something flowing by. This tendency not only colors what we think is coming at us with our own projections, but, more importantly, reinforces the impression that we live in a world that threatens us with a maddening swirl of uncertainty that we have to reach out and control.

The progressive choices that seem obvious to this perception are those that just make things better, happier, prettier. What's harder to see is...

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Actually, nothing could be further from the truth--nothing is really in a word at all. Words are just pointers, and yet we have managed to let them become us, to take the place of what we would otherwise live in, what we would otherwise actually be.

Yes, poetry and even prose can be beautiful, but this beauty is a relative thing. When those forms of language help our minds to relax the grasping and sense and flow with reality,...

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