‘Why does it feel worse again?’. This is something people often say as they continue their deepening into awakening and enlightenment. Here I share what I think is going on with it. Does it resonate for you? — When we first wake up out of the illusion of being a separate person, and into the recognition of our essential nature of awareness, there can be a period (to differing degrees) of ease and flow and lightness.

Back in 2018, I had a profound awakening experience, my mind went quiet and I thought that was it. I thought I was done – fully awakened. Here’s what I’ve learnt since. — I wrote about my big awakening in this post here. It was a beautiful, joy-filled experience thanks to a Jenga-style collapse of a whole load of thought, and it was followed by an amazing few months of a quiet mind. It was so easy and effortless in that state!

What’s August like for you? Here’s how it used to be for me, and the journey through to the perfect August for you. — Here’s How Mine Used to Be I used to spit chips at summer holiday times — teachers, friends who were teachers, non-working parents — all of them in this seeming little bubble of teacher-land, finishing for the summer holidays and saying ‘have a great summer!’ While in my mind I would grit my teeth and out…

In the Three Principles, and other nondual-based explorations, we often hear ‘Look and see for yourself’, ‘Don’t take my word for it’. ‘Nobody can give this to you’. But as my exploration continued I came to see I didn’t know how to look for myself — not at the level that really brought integration to what I’d awoken to. — Since discovering the Three Principles and nonduality I’d had significant shifts in my experience of life, but I was trying to use others’ words to describe and define and explain that. It wasn’t me. The words weren’t coming from within me. Because I hadn’t crossed some logical bridges. I hadn’t…

I’m pretty sure everyone in the exploration of their essential nature has said this at some point. If it feels like you, here’s one angle on the truth of it. — I Haven’t Seen This as Deeply as You It’s a common phrase in this exploration and one of those paradoxical things: There is nothing I have, or have seen, that is different to you AND until you see that, it will look like I have. One of the key ‘seeings’ that helped me was the simple and obvious…

This post is about abundance and about how the true nature of abundance is that life is ALWAYS giving you what you ask for. But your requests might be wonky. — Today I shared Giles P Croft’s video about money and abundance with my community members and in the post I said: “The video reminded me of how life gives abundantly, whatever we are asking for. So if we believe ‘I don’t deserve…’, ‘I can’t…’ or ‘I’m not good enough at…’…

Here’s a short video to share the key difference that I see is at the heart The Three Principles vs nonduality. What’s your perspective? — Having not engaged deeply with the Three Principles since 2019, this year’s conference was a great opportunity to hear people speak about them fresh, and to see what felt aligned with and what differed from my last few years in a nondual exploration. This video shares the one key difference…

I’ve had conversations with a few people recently where they’ve heard spiritual guides and teachers espousing the beauty of oneness experiences, and now they’re struggling with — ‘why am I not feeling this lovely oneness?’ — “And in this game of life, we all search for ourselves. When I say selves, I mean inner selves, the thing that created the life in the first place. Now consciously, most of us are not aware of this. But if you’re searching for happiness, if you’re searching for tranquility…