From the viewpoint of Basic Sanity, our shadow self isn't inherently negative. It is simply raw, vibrant energy that has become stuck or tightly constricted into conceptual knots. As awakening dissolves our psychological defenses, we encounter contracted energy and stored trauma through heightened somatic experiencing, making interactions with the world feel more raw and immediate. While this process is essentially about inherent freedom and ease, transformation can feel hars

I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I consume concepts of duality as my diet. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times. (Padmasambhava) This article examines spontaneity as a fundamental component of the awakening process. It further explores the interplay between intuition, ego, and discernment in teacher-student dynamics, and introduces the concept of crazy wisdom. We often encounter the terms spontaneity, naturalness  and effortlessness  early on the p

If you have experiential glimpses of unbound consciousness, if you see there are no actual boundaries to be found in the sense data, if...

One of the paradoxes of kundalini awakening is that it is simultaneously an expansion process that brings greater perspective and the...

When my big awakening shift occurred in 2022, after a decade of unraveling, it culminated in something that felt like the great death....

The paradox of the natural state lies in the tension between the utter completeness that already exists within us and the total...

There is something mysterious in fully embracing our humanness Redemptive love bleeds from deep heart break Your most human flaw is the...

Awakening is a solitary journey. Only someone who has gone to the root of suffering can relate to how excruciating this process feels...

What is the impulse to know Truth directly? I would say this force is the true guru. It’s raw instinctual push for non conceptual Reality...

I have slowly begun to teach during the past few of years (almost as if against my will!) Loving it, by the way. It’s not always ease and...

There are six fundamental realms, and each is a magnificent unit of its own In this lucid creative madness called human experience And...

I've been feeling into this for awhile So here it is That is the thing with meaning In these nondual circles It is not exactly true that...

While absorbed in the contemplation of Emptiness, the superb shunyata I emitted the following words When I try to locate anything it just...

We often hear in nondual teachings about the groundless nature of Reality. We may have instinctual glimpses into this ‘non graspable’,...

Integrating the awakening shift, I have become aware how much the context of the lineage I was connected to at the time of the “event”...

No self is a rather challenging aspect of awakening to describe because it’s not really an aspect of awakening. It’s not even awakening....

There comes a point in our life when all strategies to avoid, repress and medicate our deepest existential fear come to fail. In whatever...

I began writing this essay just before I had the big shift, but most of it was written during the couple of years that followed.

The stages of realization described here are just a dream. They may or may not resonate with you. I do not claim this is the only or the...