The Great Work of Immortality: Astral Travel, Dreams, and Alchemy
Judging from the number of books and YouTube videos now available on the subject, out-of-body experiences (OOBEs) seem to be enjoying a contemporary revival, and there is surely no hobby more ontologically controversial.
Light Is Not a Metaphor
When we are aligned with Light, with what is real, we are less likely to be fooled by pretty words covering empty promises.
The Biology of Enlightenment
I am aware of the points of contact of the body with something else; I am aware if there is a tension in a muscle; I am aware if I feel pain somewhere; I am aware of the heart beating or of the breathing. But all these are like dots. If I say that I am aware of the shape of the body, I am putting a line across all these dots and saying that is the shape. But it is not me. It is an assumption, an image.
The Gabriel D. Roberts Podcast with David Metcalfe
Gabriel D. Roberts in conversation with David B. Metcalfe on the ‘Blood Soaked Road to Enlightenment.’
Yoga, Ayahuasca & A Course in Miracles: Long Reads & Short Roads Home
Ayahuasca hasn’t made me enlightened, if there truly is such a thing, though it has done the work of a traditional guru and illuminated the darkness within, which has allowed me to be more aware of and correct/prevent self-serving, fear-based thoughts, words and actions.
Enlightenment and Ascension
Enlightenment and Ascension – Understanding the Illusion of Matter
My Meeting with God, or Enlightenment Porn
Enlightenment porn comes mainly in the form of books whose centerpieces are stories of the authors’ enlightenment experiences. In hushed and reverent tones, the author tells you how he became one with the universe. The story is intended to make you lust after an experience just like the one you’re reading about.
The Gold Standard, Chemical Weddings, & the Journey of Zero Distance
The heroic journey usually entails a quest for an object of
highest value. In spiritual language, the object is
enlightenment. In alchemical terms, enlightenment is the recovery of our
true "stellar" nature, the real gold, an "undivided mind." It is more than just a poetic metaphor that the unearthed gold which completes this transformation is sourced primordially in the cataclysmic union of
stars.
The Disillusionist: New Spirituality — Stranger Than Science Fiction
The ego has dethroned the soul, and enlightenment is only possible when
the slimy usurper has been outed and slain, and the soul can re-animate
the body again. A spiritual teacher is not a philosopher, prophet, healer, or sage. He
is a hitman, an assassin.
Is Life But a Dream?
If you're still hoping for nonduality
to cohere, to make your life better, to make you happier, you're still clinging
to spiritual materialism. Better for it all to be for
nought. Surrender even the hope of
progress, and progress will happen on its own.
