The Daemon vs. the Demon Are you listening to your inner demon, or your inner daemon? Your “calling,” or your “daemon,” is the part of your being that you cannot deny. It is a guiding light that demands to be followed. By contrast, the “demon” is that...
Embodying the Sacred Feminine: Leaving Room To Be Awakening is the process of contacting the feminine principle, the sacred feminine, the spaciousness. Most people think ‘I’ve got to work on unfoldment’, ‘I’ve got to meditate more’. Or ‘I’ve got to...
Luminosity and bliss is the natural state of the mind – before it reaches turbulence. In order to keep the mind from being in a state of turbulence, one has to let go of two veils which generate all our machinations. The two veils that generate turbulence are:...
Meditation – Why Don’t You Practice? When it comes to meditation, here is a practical and fundamental question: Why don’t you practice? The bottom line is fundamentally that when you’re practicing it doesn’t seem to be effective. You don’t get the hit. So...
What are ‘you’? What is the ‘self’? The definition of ‘you’ is ‘hurt’. Be very clear about this. ‘You’ is ‘separation’. Separation is, by definition, hurt. You don’t want to know that the...
Spiritual growth leads to the experience of the transcendent state, the most beautiful state available to the human consciousness. In this blog post we’d like to share with you a foundational tool that we believe is fundamental (and universal) to the journey of...
How can your Livelihood and your Spiritual Practice Feed each other? Imagine your livelihood being a dynamic engine of growth, and your inner spiritual work infusing depth and vision to your career. How powerful and beautiful that would be! Awakening through career...
The Purpose of Relationships The purpose of relationships is to increase your “differentiation”, and reach your full human potential. To have a better relationship, and to really love consciously, you need to learn to be different. Your ability to have deeper passion,...
The Transcendental State: The most beautiful state available to us How does one live a complete, full and beautiful life? Dharma Teachers Qapel Doug Duncan & Catherine Sensei share about ‘Complete Livelihood’ and the wisdom and vision it offers for...
We live in an amazing world of mystery. A life lived in the awareness and wonder of this is the Mystical Life. In a sense it is occult, since “occult” means “hidden.” Right view is the perspective and understanding that we live in a divine mystery. It is learning to...
