Intelligent Spirituality + Human Optimization

Peerless Series

Are you at the mercy of your thoughts, emotions and programming?

 

The Peerless Series covers getting centered, grounded and cultivating personal agency. Take a 15 week journey with me…I’ll give you practical guidance and effective techniques to master your mind & emotions, one lesson at a time.

This is the fundamental beginners series that underpins all intermediate and advanced series.

 

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Mastery Series

I’ll give you the tools, perspectives and techniques to stop being a passenger and get in the driver’s seat.

 

Weekly audio lessons cover a range of topics, from mood management, attitude adjustment, getting the upper hand with thought loops, meditations to remove deep programming, busting out of cherished ruts and more.

If you haven’t taken the Peerless Series, I recommend you do because you’ll have a solid foundation for this course, but it’s not required.

 

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Being Human: Are you Pro or Amateur?

Are you still operating from your mind’s default mode? Your mind isn’t the enemy. It’s just a tool you haven’t learned to use. Being human isn’t a hobby, it’s a vocation.

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The Covid Pandemic is an Opportunity for Massive Personal and Spiritual Growth

I’m in lockdown. Coronavirus has completely unwoven the fabric of my life. So why am I so damn excited? Grinning from ear to ear. Of course, you couldn’t tell because I’m all masked up. The pandemic chaos is creating the most powerful energetic ground to make deep, fundamental changes in our lives. To move the immovable. To change the immutable. In a sense, to establish a new incarnation in the same body.  READ >>

Confusing Spiritual Awakening with Getting Rid of Unwanted Mental Programs

Have you ever wondered if getting rid of all your mental programming would result in the ability to see reality directly, and unfiltered? Would it lead to spiritual enlightenment? READ >>

Managing Emotional Intensity in a Crisis

The unfolding covid-19 crisis, racial tensions and financial uncertainty is flooding us with personal and ambient emotional intensity. You can go where those rushing emotions take you, or you can practice mastery. READ >>

The Truth About Parenting (and about growing up)

Whether you’re a parent or not, this is important for everyone. A lot of the issues that come up in parenting are really not even about our kids, but about ourselves — how we process our own childhood experience, our unconscious beliefs about our childhoods.  READ >>

Sudden spiritual enlightenment — are you kidding?

How to cope with sudden spiritual awakening. Because it’s not all rainbows and samadhi pie.

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Can Enlightened People Act Immorally?

Enlightenment has naught to do with morality or ethical concerns. Nothing. Moreover, unless you are already an extremely grounded and wise person, enlightenment can make… READ >>

Relationships After Enlightenment

I was alone in the woods on a summer night, when suddenly, I woke up. Instantly, spectacularly, and completely out of the blue. On the… READ >>

The New Powerful You: Mastering Your Upgrade

“You call this an upgrade?” Yeah, I feel you. Sometimes it can feel like a handicap. Like you’ve been debilitated in some way. But think… READ >>

What Would the World be Like if Everyone Was Enlightened?

With so many people striving toward enlightenment, what would happen if one morning we all woke up enlightened? It’s such a funny thing to contemplate.… READ >>

Still Asleep?

Spiritual Seekers Series: Deep Dream Diving with Beautiful Sleepwalkers. 

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The Door That Death Opens

A reader asks a poignant question about life, love and death after losing his father. Life and death are bound together. You can easily grasp… READ >>

Inner Dialogue vs Outer Diaologue

Normal is not the same as sane. What makes you different from the crazy homeless lady, dressed in rags, talking nonsense day after day? She’s… READ >>

Will enlightenment make you happy?

Enlightenment does not happen to improve life. To an unenlightened person who is inclined toward happiness, life can be glorious. To people who tend toward… READ >>

Seeking Enlightenment in Lieu of Getting Yourself in Hand

Are you using spirituality and the search for enlightenment as an excuse not to fix your mental, emotional, relational and financial problems? The experience of… READ >>

Ultra Sensory Chronicles

Psycho or Psychic? Is there any way to have a sane, sensible convo about being Ultra Sensory? Some of us are born this way and sometimes spiritual awakening kicks everything into high gear. Always interesting, but not always a good time.

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Reader Q&A: Sex After Kundalini Awakening

Will having sex after Kundalini awakening cause further activation? While I’m interested in having sex with my husband, I’m terrified that it will get things… READ >>

Ultra Sensory: How My Body Perceives and Reacts to Lightning

I can’t really describe what it feels like to have your energy sphere collapse. I tried to bring it up again, fortify my boundary, but… READ >>

Ultra Sensory Q&A: “I’m suddenly seeing light and patterns I never saw before”

A reader writes: “Lately I have been seeing things that I didn’t see before. Vibrating/moving/cascading light in surfaces and atmosphere. It all started about a… READ >>

Siddhis: Psychic Telepathic Communication Through Touch

Life after sudden spiritual awakening: So, you’re already dealing with sudden spiritual awakening…that’s weird enough, right? But some of you will also gain psychic abilities… READ >>

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