In a footnote in Up from Eden, Ken Wilber observes that one element of his reservations about Hegel – who he otherwise considers a “towering genius” combining “transcendent insight with mental genius” – is that Hegel had no yoga, no “reproducible technique of transcendence” (638, 641). To me, that is an interesting criticism. It suggestsContinue reading “On Loving the Intellect”
Author Archives: Sean
On Ken Wapnick
So Kenneth Wapnick has died. I’ve tried to write about Ken many times since I started this blog and it never works out (UPDATE: this post and this post both go into my experience of Ken and Tara Singh as “teachers”). My feelings about Ken were always complicated, even as they increasingly leaned towards gratitudeContinue reading “On Ken Wapnick”
Learning in Bodies
We have the structure of human beings living in the world with other human beings, and other forms of life with their own unique structures. That is the physical context in which we encounter A Course in Miracles. Thus, our learning takes place in bodies and has as part of its subject those very bodies.Continue reading “Learning in Bodies”
On Guilt and Time and Inner Peace
A Course in Miracles teaches that the separation from God occurred over “millions of years” (T-2.VIII.2:5). Yet the separation lives in and acts through us with our consent now. As we become aware of the through process known as separation, we naturally orient towards dissolving it, which is simultaneously a movement towards inner peace. SpeedingContinue reading “On Guilt and Time and Inner Peace”
Learning Love Through Service
There is value in thinking about kindness – general, simple ordinary kindness. Helping shovel the walk, listening carefully to other people’s stories and questions, paying for lunch, offering up compliments, sharing experience. Doing this is a form of service to our brothers and sisters and to our own self. We learn love through service. “Thinking” inContinue reading “Learning Love Through Service”
Giving Attention to Kindness and Starlight
And yet kindness matters – continues to matter. Those actions taken through the body for another – thoughtful letters, hugs, fresh-baked bread, attentive listening and so forth. I can’t forget this. Won’t forget it. I stood for a few minutes this morning beneath the dogwood tree out back. Each twig and branch is encased inContinue reading “Giving Attention to Kindness and Starlight”