Practicing Is

Young Lion Kelly was traveling East with his friend Alan Marlow. When he told Swami   Gauribala he was practicing  Buddhism, Swami laughed and told him to practice what is. Kelly had had enough manic subtle experiences to know that there was more to enlightenment than these.... Read More

Long Live Ram Dass

In reference to:   http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/soul-land/?#bottom  ...   I understand that  Neem Karoli Baba did not teach meditation. He believed that devotion and service were better practices. Immediately upon regaining his consciousness Ram Dass... Read More

Holy Spirit Visits L.A.!

 Frank Bartleman was right there when the Holy Spirit was visiting 312 Azusa Street. He said that She had previously visited in Wales and India. When Frank first visited Azusa Street in 1906 there were about twelve people, black and white together, who had cleared out a small... Read More

Transmission (Part 3)

Ken and Mariana agree that our chances of making real Spiritual progress without surrendering to an authentic guru are about as good as our chances of being the president of the United States. They acknowledged that one of the most important functions of such a guru is the transmission... Read More

And Include

Sally reminds us that it is good to include both Freedom (Chit, empty awareness) and Fullness (Ananda, love-bliss). Ken tends to focus mostly on the emptiness. It will be interesting to see if he begins to balance this out with more of the ananda as he spends more time with Sally....... Read More

What is Integral?

In this conversation Ken talked about four meanings of integral consciousness:... ·         A relative term with each level being more integral than the previous one.... ·         Horizontal integration;... Read More

Purpose of Integral

What is the purpose of integral? My hypothesis is that an extremely worthy purpose of integral is to learn to extend love, concern, and care to all sentient beings. If this is the case I would love to see integral touch not just thousands but billions of people. Ken spoke about how early... Read More

Psychological Health

In the third talk Ken explains that the work of Spiral Dynamics and Claire Graves is based on the answer to one question; “ Describe the behavior of  a   psychologically healthy human being ”. You might want to answer this to yourself before reading... Read More