Month: March 2025

In some recent writings on this blog I have been attempting to comprehend the relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm through some practical stories of non-dualism. I wrote about situations not so much from the gaze of deep meditation or abstract contemplation but from really mundane encounters in which the infinite light reveals itself […]

Human life is always at balance between inferiority and superiority complexes. We make so many mistakes based on such complexes, dominating others or submitting to the domination of others. However, one day we have to wake up, have true confidence and be more authentic without these games of inferiority or superiority, without harming others and […]

A really evil person sent me a good vibration the other day. I did not realise that he had such a bad vibe when I first saw him smiling at me and nodding his head to say hello. People around here are generally very friendly and strangers often say hello to me. He had a […]

A few years ago a Facebook friend who turned out to not be very friendly made some comments on some photos of me playing the flute in some indigenous community in Chiapas. She said that I played classical music that those people probably could not understand. I told her I played the music that I […]

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd:Petals on a wet, black bough.” After travelling through two international airports in one day I recall Pound´s “In A Station Of The Metro.”  Sleepless, I lie awake at night seeing all of the faces of the day, even the one´s I never remembered even seeing pass by […]

A mystic seeks some higher, absolute and enduring truth and declares the world as something that must be transcended.  Suffering the loss of what is near and dear in the relative, ever-changing world propels more conscious beings to renounce blind attachments and fleeting desires to find something higher, or at least relate to what is […]

I had just gotten off of the train in Berlin.  I was waiting for a friend who had been talking to two German girls and was exchanging addresses with them.  While waiting for him a punk with a blue mohawk approaches me and asks if I had a cigarette.  I did not understand German but […]

Meister Eckhart once wrote that the essence of all creatures is nothingness.  At other times he said that the human soul was at one with the Godhead, that there is no essential separation of the human soul from God.  I believe these are different ways of expressing the unity of all spirits and their essential […]

When I began to practice yoga at the age of 21 all of the spiritual ideas that had attracted me toward some spiritual path began to make sense to me.  I began to see in a more clear light all of the good Christian ideas that I was exposed to with some very noble examples. […]

Trees hold our precious earth together to prevent floods.  They give us fire for wood and building shelters.  Some give us fruits and food from their leaves.  They work ceaselessly to convert all of the carbon we mindlessly dump into the atmosphere only to give us oxygen to live.  Although it is commonly known that […]

I came to learn of the Tantra Maya practices in a very curious manner.  One summer I passed through very deep and intense meditations.   It was during the most intense and horrific times of the so-called “narco war” in Mexico. The terror only pushed our community further into our meditations to try to survive […]

“The harmful internal consequences of over-industrialization not only affect the personal, social and national health of the people, they also precipitate gradual individual and collective psychic degeneration. A type of psychic epidemic may arise which can poison almost all expressions of life and destroy them. This may not happen today, but it will surely happen […]

We have started the work of planting organic coffee. A friend suggested that I should build a cabin for tourists who would like to visit an organic coffee farm. I think tourists would need something more to do in the local area than just visit a farm.  However, El Triunfo natural reserve is nearby, which […]

Stavrogin: …..in the Apocalypse the angel swears that there´ll be no more time. Kirillov: I know. It´s quite true, it´s said very clearly and exactly. When the whole of man has achieved happiness, there won´t be any time, because it won´t be needed. It´s perfectly true. Stavrogin: Where will they put it then? Kirillov: They […]

excerpt from Anahata     In the phase of involution, Shiva, the infinite consciousness, has been transformed by his immortal consort Shakti, the divine creative energy, into all that is in this universe. Shiva is the material cause of the universe, Shakti is the efficient cause.  Shiva is pure light.  Shakti is gravity that apparently bends […]

For countless lives my eyes turn toward you, rolling upward, inward, into that primordial eye,   Peering into these lives and deaths in search of freedom. Lost in the spirits crown, forgetting world and self Your formless bliss and gentle Om release nectar from the spirits crown and flood me with the intoxication of the […]

A friend writes to me the other day and asks how he can leave behind some worldly habits that prevent him from being able to dedicate himself to meditation. They are common habits that many people enjoy but that serious meditators have left behind. So, if many other people have overcome habits of enjoying alcohol, […]

Nothing in this universe is an accident, all is incident. The closer our meditation moves toward the First Cause of OM, the more we see the universe as the dream of the Supreme Consciousness instead of a series of disconnected accidents in alienated minds. What seemed like accidents were but misconceptions of reality from minds […]

In the 90‘s I lived in a spiritual community in rural Missouri where many members were from India. The locals would come and shoot their rifles at us, try to burn down our buildings and shout “Sand Niggers!” (which is actually a racist term for Arabs, but what does a hick know?) We would call […]

  An Excerpt from A Name To The Nameless  There has never been nor will there ever be a more exalted inspiration than the realization of the oneness of the human soul with the Infinite Being. This is an ever-renewing germ of thought in the perennial philosophy that will sprout wherever there are noble hearts […]

Anybody who has looked into the abyss of his or her consciousness knows that the abyss looks back at you, as Nietzsche said. The unconscious mind is a very live and active zoo of escaped animals raging about in pure chaos and savagery. Does their years of pent-up frustration make them even more crazy when […]

It was a Sunday with my friends on the ranch. A man from the local village arrived on a 4-wheeled motorcycle. He was a person that did some occasional work for us. He was very drunk and came to ask me for money. I denied him but he implored. I just told him that he […]

To see the world as a frameless photoand wander through the night,or submit to sweet affections for earthly formcaressed in the light of the known. Can we endure Your darknessand pass by the light from these wanderer’s innsensconsed from this dark forest? Into many such places have we wandered,been visitors in tidy rooms with polished, […]

I came to Mexico when I was 30. I was very healthy and my mind was very light. After the initial intensity of my meditation experiences in my early 20’s, I was finally able to come down a little and kind of sort of adapt to the world. I had a job managing a community […]

I was an admirer of the Zapatistas since the first videos that I saw early in 1994 when Commander Ramona, an ex-nun Zapatista rebel commander, led the attack to take San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas. Even though they had machine guns and were fighting I could see that they were very dignified people […]

Personally, I fared very well growing up in the United States. My grandparents were farmers yet they sent all their children to college and they all progressed into the middle class. My mother was the only daughter who, due to my surprise arrival, did not finish college immediately after high school and only later did […]

These yoga postures are called “asanas,” which means “a posture held with coordinated breathing.”  Ancient forest dwelling yogis named the asanas after animals in their natural postures.  The purpose of yoga asanas are to help one advance in meditation.  Their practice brings health, longevity and strength to the body but their primary purpose is to […]

an excerpt from Light And Dark Tantra Before the tragedy of The Purulia Arms Drop I spent my time meditating and reading Anandamurti´s books, among some other books on yoga while at Ananda Nagar in India. I was the first student in the tantric research project at Ananda Nagar and I was living near my […]

This evening my soul poured out and into all things,leaving this empty, lonely vessel, and was filledwith an infinite, ever-flowing stream.My soul poured out,reeling and roaring into everything.Ceased of breath, I am;empty of form in a diaphanous blue immensity,in the gentle frolic of the evening wind,in the warm smile of the setting sun,condensed into flowing […]

Anandamurti reintroduced the old tantric concept of “Taraka Brahma.” Taraka means “bridge,” and Brahma is “infinite consciousness” and so Taraka Brahma is the bridge to the infinite entity of Brahma. Taraka Brahma is the point just between the unmanifested infinite ocean of Brahma (Nirguna Brahma) and the manifested creation, or Macrocosm, of Brahma (Saguna Brahma). […]

Writing Light And Dark Tantra was always a balancing act.   It felt very good to write about my experiences with people like Chandranath  (at the far right of the photo) and other early disciples of Anandamurti.  One can even feel a sense of pride about being associated with a spiritual society directed by such […]

6 months before the Purulia Arms Drop I participated in an Ananda Marga debate about whether terrorism could ever be justified. Ananda Marga was a pacific revolutionary organization that denounced both the materialistic philosophies of capitalism as well as communism. The focus of the ideology was primarily on yoga and meditation but there was a […]

“Brahma alone is the guru.” This saying from the Upanishads represents a very universal conception of the deity. Brahma literally means that which is great and makes others great. In other words, Brahma is the Consciousness of the Macrocosm, of the entire universe. The guru is none other than the Supreme Consciousness and cannot be […]

Sexuality is one of the least understood aspects of human life.  All have this desire, but few people seem to find a healthy solution to sexual conflicts.  There is so much suffering caused by blind sexuality.  So many women are abandoned with children by men whose animal instincts soon pull them elsewhere after a little […]