I felt the same way about the inipi. My ability to explain what had happened didn’t obscure my absolute joy and wonder in the imminent arrival of two children. Dr. Dossey’s words ran through my mind. The nonlocality of consciousness. Paired with what we understood about quantum entanglement, nonlocal consciousness suggested that just as tiny …
I also thought of a continuing education symposium I’d attend at Harvard Medical School a year or two before Isaiah came. Dr. Larry Dossey, a longtime medical doctor in Dallas – a strapping, commanding man in his sixties who looked like he’d once played quarterback on his high school football team – had given a …
When I think of awakened awareness, I think of the iconic painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of God giving life to Adam. So are we given life, by consciousness. Through awakened attention, we’re available for surprise, for new information that turns our head. When new awareness comes, it’s like the hand of …
The twentieth-century views of the mind describe imagination as something we construct. Imagination is invention. Make-believe. But in awakened awareness, imagination is not an act of creation so much as an act of perception – a way of detecting information. Just as we detect heat from a burner when our hand gets too close to …
To engage our innate capacity for awakened attention, we first quiet the “little me,” turning down our achieving awareness so that our awakened awareness can emerge. There are many conscious ways to do this – through chanting, prayer, creative expression, meditation, and more. One way into awakened attention is to start through mindfulness practice, and …
Even obstacles often appear at just the right time to teach us something important. I created this exercise called Three Doors to help show that when we’re using the lens of achieving awareness alone, we see boulders blocking our path, but when we engage our awakened attention, the boulders are actually stepping-stones that show us …
