From a typical person’s point of view, the correlation between one’s emotions and experience may seem obvious.  Most people believe that their emotional temperature (essentially the way they feel about things in general) is a product of the events and conditions they encounter.  However, my argument is that in reality it works the other way around.

Now, when I hear the phrase “As within, so without,” I remember that “without” is simply an idea, part of the description I have adopted to explain what I see, hear, and so on. I understand that there is only “within,” because my perceptions, and their description, lie entirely within myself… and that is all there is. There is no need of a mechanism that connects within and without, because they both have their being inside me, and you, and all of us. That’s why the world is a mirror.

It may be that the hardest thing for us humans to do is to turn the context for our lives on its head. Virtually every human being who has ever lived has considered the world to be the context in which one lives one’s life. Clearly, we believe, we come and go while the world remains. That’s just common sense; it’s completely intuitive. But consider the possibility that we have it backwards.

We have just released a version of Hoodwinked with full color illustrations!

The control the Ego promises us over the circumstances of our lives seems so promising, so enticing.

It is the context we create for our lives, and not the content of our lives, that determines our life experience. Recognize the ego to transform your personal relationships.

When we don’t get what we want, just who is it that wants what we don’t get?

It seems clear to me that to change your life you have to change the story you tell about your life. It’s tricky though. If you tell a story that reflects the life you want, but you don’t believe it, it won’t feel good, and it won’t change your life.

‘Hoodwinked’ is the title of my forthcoming book. The dictionary defines hoodwinked as “To deceive or trick; to blindfold.” Why do I use that word as the title?

In my forthcoming book, Hoodwinked: Uncovering Our Fundamental Superstitions, I start with a simple but completely non-intuitive premise: what we think of as the physical world is in fact a description of the world and not the world itself. What does the Law of Attraction look like from there?

Most people have been taught the methods and practices of rational analysis and problem-solving.  And yet, there doesn’t seem to be a strong correlation between that expertise and one’s quality of life. Why is that?

It’s easy to identify the villains and the victims and to assign blame. Unfortunately, there’s not much power available in that context to improve the quality of our lives.

In my last post, entitled “Here’s the Thing,” I proposed that we think of the Ego in global terms. That idea seems to have a lot of folks scratching their heads.

Normally, we think of “my ego,” or “your ego.” In that personal context, the ego is usually thought of as a character defect, which we somehow have to make up for with apologies and/or resolutions to put the ego aside and thus be more present, truthful, or authentic.

Are you having trouble understanding why other people are acting the way they do? Are you having trouble understanding why you are acting the way you do? Well, you’re not alone.

It seems to me, as I write this during the pandemic of 2020, that we’re standing in a time and place of unparalleled instability. All of the “sure things” I previously took for granted are changing into something else or just disappearing altogether.

Ordinary reality, the world perceived by humans, is sometimes referred to as 3-D reality. The number 3 here refers to the familiar three dimensions of space.

There’s a lot of fear going around these days about the coronavirus. In response, there are actions being taken, and some frantic, knee-jerk reactions taking place. And… there’s a fair bit of acting-out going on as well.

In the previous episode in this series, I suggested a way of looking at the current state of the world – as experienced by many of us – that may help to explain the powerlessness we often feel when we watch the news or read the newspaper.

If you were to take a step back right now, and if you were to look at the whole world of human experience from a normal human perspective, what would things look like?