The Occult World

The Occult world can really be a problem.  It would be great if astrology, numerology, psychic phenomena, magick, and similar occult practices were as completely a fantasy as the hard core ’science’ skeptics would have people believe.

The more nuanced truth is there is some validity to those worlds; not nearly as much as the fans of practitoners of the occult believe, but still some.  That slight validity creates a tension in the individual mind between fantasy and reality, raising questions of what is real and what aspect of the occult does what it does.

It’s all too easy to fall between the cracks of imagination and reality; we live in mind, after all.  Everyone does that, it’s human nature, and almost everyone believes they are more clever and less deceived than others.

Ah, the ego…

Just be careful out there.  Tread carefully and never think that making decisions in these realms is to be taken lightly or rushed.

It’s true, it is the nature of some to always push the boundaries, and that is good.

The purpose of this blog is to save years of pointless wandering among those few who are driven to push the boundaries; and to find out and share what is real in a world where the truth is hard to determine.

Real Truth about Meditation

Meditation is too often a crutch, and it is too often something people use as a semi-religious practice.

One of the useful things to recognize is all types of meditation are tools. And like all tools they can and will get old.

They are not ends in themselves. They are not where your focus should be after a certain point of working with them. They are at best stepping stones to a larger reality.

What is the purpose of meditation practice?  To train and control attention.  To control where the mind focuses.  To know the nature of mind.  To still it so a larger reality can come into your awareness.

Eventually meditation practice should be discarded or modified to be replaced by the practice of awareness throughout the experiences of life. Gardening, playing music, playing hacky sack, martial arts, contemplating numerology, are just a few of the infinity of examples of activities that will meditate you.

Let go of the meditation practice after awhile, once you get the idea.  Bring awareness into life.

You Are In Consciousness

Mind is what you inhabit at all times.  Everything else is an inference (such as the existence of the ‘material’ world).  Our language is still badly embedded with preconceptions that do not reflect or help create an accurate picture of reality.

But we know this: we are all in mind, all the time.  All our experience is in mind.  You cannot escape being in consciousness all the time.

You may bang your foot on a rock… and it is in your mind (which does not mean it is fake, or a fantasy, or any other unjustified conclusion… but it is in your mind).

You may feel love, or hate, or pain, or pleasure… and it is in your mind.  You may think electrons exist, or atoms, or molecules, or scientific models and think that this is ‘real’… but it is all in your mind.

What is in your mind may be in the minds of others, or reflected in reality, or dreams, or shared by no other.  Regardless it is ALL in your mind.

You, we, are in consciousness first and always.

The Energy Body Way (the blog’s name) is my term for this reality that we are always in mind, experiencing through it, experiencing as it.  First and foremost in mind-consciousness-awareness; thoughts and feelings!

The Way is the way of waking up to this true, obvious reality and recognizing it for what it is, of letting the preconceptions, models, beliefs, language traps, and all else fall away to the greatest extent possible and claiming your awareness.