Archive for the 'Spiritual Growth' Category

Using Drugs for Your Spiritual Journey and Conscious Awakening

Hi Gary, I have been hearing a lot about LSD lately and the effects of it on the mind and how it can expand consciousness. From what I heard it can give you the same results as years of self mastery work and meditation. It sounds pretty far fetched. I was just wondering what you [...]

Faster Personal and Emotional Change

Faster Personal Changes When a person engages in personal and spiritual growth practices they often begin with reading and gathering knowledge. This is a good place to start for background information. However the knowledge approach has limited potential for change. It can also be relatively slow. Real life changes in emotions and behavior don’t happen [...]

Two Paths to Happiness

There are basically two ways to approach being happy in your life. The first way to be happy is to practice doing all the things that bring you to happiness. This might seem to be a bit of a Pollyanna approach to happiness. I tend to agree. It ignores all the ways we create and [...]

Real Courage

I previously posted about what we typically learn to think of as courage. In that post I shared how my previous understanding of courage fell apart. The awareness and insight that I got from a Marine Corp Staff Sergeant helped me understand that what we often associate with heroic acts could just as easily be [...]

Spiritual Growth Stumbling Blocks

Now I’m going to get to the point I originally wanted to make in my last post about spiritual growth stumbling blocks. In my last post I got on to another in the set up and left it at that. Sometimes less is more. To just get one insight or epiphany in a post is [...]