Master Spiral Dynamics: How Learning This Theory Can Trap You

Perhaps 1% or fewer practitioners reach late-stage meditation, where awakening has permanently altered one’s perception.Late stage says: “There is no centre for awakening to happen to.”This is a snipp...

10 Maalis 9min

Mid-stage practitioners constitute perhaps 5–10% of meditators. This is the stage where awakening begins to stabilise.A core feature of this stage is that thoughts lose their unquestioned authority. T...

8 Maalis 10min

At the early stage, meditation is something you do. It is an activity during the day, set apart from life, distinct from the rest.Awakening is imagined as a future event: a breakthrough, a shift, a pe...

5 Maalis 6min

We tend to see meditation as a single spiritual practice experienced equally by all. It seems meditators sit, practice their technique, attend retreats and accumulate hours.What’s missing is the devel...

4 Maalis 39min

Meaning, meaningnless and ameaningful are three different words. Meaning and meaninglessness imply one another.Questioning the meaning of life is not a symptom of meaninglessness. We are obsessed with...

3 Maalis 6min

The question "What Is The Meaning of Life?" is fraught with difficulties and blindspots. It's so tempting to overcomplicate it, to oversimplify it, or to blindly rely on others to tell you the answer....

1 Maalis 12min

Why are you here? How does personal meaning work? What questions can we ask to get to the core of our personal meaning structure?This is a snippet from my episode "What Is The Meaning Of Life?" from 2...

27 Helmi 10min

What is the meaning of life? When we get down to it, why are we here as individuals? Why does life itself exist? What is all this for?I round off this month's theme of deep questions with the mother o...

25 Helmi 1h 5min