Welcome to my blog and Namaste (The divinity in me acknowledges the divinity in you.) This blog will be a place where I will keep my thoughts and observations as I flow with the Tao. I keep a notebook with me and write in it quite often, but being a lefty from the 60's my handwriting is atrocious. I do type quite quickly and I find the process both cathartic and creatively inspiring, so I look forward to this becoming a part of my life.
At the end of 2007 I experienced an intense awakening that left me somewhat disoriented for about six weeks. While I could still go to work, there was no question that I was unclear why my perspective had changed so radically. As I gradually became accustomed to this new way of living, increasingly intensified my search to understand what had happened. After two or three months I finally realized what had happened to me. I had had an awakening of consciousness, from the Ego to Awareness, from Level 1 to Level 2, from being a program in the Matrix to being a part of the crew on the Nebuchadnezzar. I had involuntarily taken the Red pill but now that I had, I realized there was no other way.
You might be familiar with the work of Eckhart Tolle. He is the current King of Consciousness as far a popularity, and I am thankful that he is. While I had read several books that danced around the topic, as soon as I started "A New Earth" I knew that I had finally found the book that would explain what had happened during the end of 2007.
That really launched me into overdrive and I sought information on consciousness voraciously. I have since then devoured as much of Tolle's books, audio programs, and videos that I could get my hands on. As there is very little guidance on the subject, I painstakingly sought out the resources to further my understanding. My hard work has been greatly rewarded and I have been fortunate to be guided by the books of great teachers like Richard Moss, Leonard Jacobson, and David Hawkins. Much of this has been augmented by my devotion to the recorded materials (and a few books) by the late, great Alan Watts, a man I discovered almost a year and a half before my awakening. The greatest thing I have taken from Alan is that reality is nondualism, and that has made my understanding of all of the other teachers much, much easier.
Along the way I have enjoyed reading some of the popular manifestation authors who are teaching "The Law of Attraction" these days. Abraham-Hicks, Wayne Dyer, and Byron Katie are some of my more favorites. While I consider the idea of manifestation as a byproduct, something that is a few levels below deep consciousness, the teachings of these people are providing a gateway through which many are discovering consciousness and spirituality, and that is awesome.
I would be remiss to not mention my discovery of "The Celestine Prophecy" and line of books making up James Redfield's "Celestine Vision." It was the first glimpse of light that I was able to discover after reeling for six weeks, and it was from Redfield's material that I was able to develop some sort of vocabulary to eventually google my way to Eckhart. The Celestine material is much lighter and less focused than the material that I eventually gravitated to, but it was the first spiritual material that I had ever read without scoffing at it. Prior to my awakening, the closest I could come to spirituality was the more traditional Buddhist and Taoist concepts that I mostly took from Alan Watt's material. Anything more touchy-feely than that could not hold my interest. Anyone needing lighter material to work their way into the deep, thick works of Tolle and Moss might benefit from the Celestine material. (It's written in novel format, so it's a very quick read.)
I have been baffled by the lack of organization within the Consciousness and Spirituality world. Certainly, many of the authors will write endorsements for each other, but that is about the only way to connect the dots. Furthermore, few of the consciousness authors endorse each other, so you have to jump from Tolle endorsing Dyer and Dyer endorsing Moss to connect Tolle's work with that of Moss. Way too hard for the average Joe or Josephine, but that's one of my things: compiling. So a part of this blog will be to compile as much of the information that I come across so that others might be able to crawl through the spider web and not have to spin the web like I did.
As I said, I'm looking forward to making this blog part of my journey. I also look forward to comments on my posts. Participation in forums can snowball into too many threads and can become too time consuming to keep up with. It is my intent to keep my primary focus on this blog and go outside of this blog only when I have addressed all of the issues here. Feel free to email me if you have posted something here and I haven't responded in a day or two. I travel for a living and I'm frequently "off of the grid" for a few days at a time, but if you keep on me, I will get to it.
Thanks for visiting and Namaste.
Sean Brown
At the end of 2007 I experienced an intense awakening that left me somewhat disoriented for about six weeks. While I could still go to work, there was no question that I was unclear why my perspective had changed so radically. As I gradually became accustomed to this new way of living, increasingly intensified my search to understand what had happened. After two or three months I finally realized what had happened to me. I had had an awakening of consciousness, from the Ego to Awareness, from Level 1 to Level 2, from being a program in the Matrix to being a part of the crew on the Nebuchadnezzar. I had involuntarily taken the Red pill but now that I had, I realized there was no other way.
You might be familiar with the work of Eckhart Tolle. He is the current King of Consciousness as far a popularity, and I am thankful that he is. While I had read several books that danced around the topic, as soon as I started "A New Earth" I knew that I had finally found the book that would explain what had happened during the end of 2007.
That really launched me into overdrive and I sought information on consciousness voraciously. I have since then devoured as much of Tolle's books, audio programs, and videos that I could get my hands on. As there is very little guidance on the subject, I painstakingly sought out the resources to further my understanding. My hard work has been greatly rewarded and I have been fortunate to be guided by the books of great teachers like Richard Moss, Leonard Jacobson, and David Hawkins. Much of this has been augmented by my devotion to the recorded materials (and a few books) by the late, great Alan Watts, a man I discovered almost a year and a half before my awakening. The greatest thing I have taken from Alan is that reality is nondualism, and that has made my understanding of all of the other teachers much, much easier.
Along the way I have enjoyed reading some of the popular manifestation authors who are teaching "The Law of Attraction" these days. Abraham-Hicks, Wayne Dyer, and Byron Katie are some of my more favorites. While I consider the idea of manifestation as a byproduct, something that is a few levels below deep consciousness, the teachings of these people are providing a gateway through which many are discovering consciousness and spirituality, and that is awesome.
I would be remiss to not mention my discovery of "The Celestine Prophecy" and line of books making up James Redfield's "Celestine Vision." It was the first glimpse of light that I was able to discover after reeling for six weeks, and it was from Redfield's material that I was able to develop some sort of vocabulary to eventually google my way to Eckhart. The Celestine material is much lighter and less focused than the material that I eventually gravitated to, but it was the first spiritual material that I had ever read without scoffing at it. Prior to my awakening, the closest I could come to spirituality was the more traditional Buddhist and Taoist concepts that I mostly took from Alan Watt's material. Anything more touchy-feely than that could not hold my interest. Anyone needing lighter material to work their way into the deep, thick works of Tolle and Moss might benefit from the Celestine material. (It's written in novel format, so it's a very quick read.)
I have been baffled by the lack of organization within the Consciousness and Spirituality world. Certainly, many of the authors will write endorsements for each other, but that is about the only way to connect the dots. Furthermore, few of the consciousness authors endorse each other, so you have to jump from Tolle endorsing Dyer and Dyer endorsing Moss to connect Tolle's work with that of Moss. Way too hard for the average Joe or Josephine, but that's one of my things: compiling. So a part of this blog will be to compile as much of the information that I come across so that others might be able to crawl through the spider web and not have to spin the web like I did.
As I said, I'm looking forward to making this blog part of my journey. I also look forward to comments on my posts. Participation in forums can snowball into too many threads and can become too time consuming to keep up with. It is my intent to keep my primary focus on this blog and go outside of this blog only when I have addressed all of the issues here. Feel free to email me if you have posted something here and I haven't responded in a day or two. I travel for a living and I'm frequently "off of the grid" for a few days at a time, but if you keep on me, I will get to it.
Thanks for visiting and Namaste.
Sean Brown
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