Waking up in the world
‘Before the TRUTH can set you free, you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage’ Prince Ea
When walking (and even crawling at times) our journey towards waking up to more personal, social and universal reality, resources and support make a world of difference. Just knowing that many have walked the path before you and many in every corner of the world are navigating this journey right now makes a world of difference. Today I’d like to share a few links with valuable and relevant wisdom and information.
Waking up in the world: a series of webinars hosted by Sounds True, in which a group of diverse people discuss waking up in the world, the gifts and the challenges of waking up in our world and living as more conscious and awakened beings.
Steve Taylor’s article in The Psychologist (the journal of the British Psychological Society). Steve Taylor writes: ‘My own research has included two general studies of reports of awakening experiences (Taylor, 2012a, Taylor & Egeto-Szabo, 2017) and a study of transformational experiences related to psychological turmoil (Taylor, 2011, 2012b). This research has found three contexts that consistently show up as major triggers of awakening experiences, as well as a host of less significant ones.
The most common trigger may initially seem puzzling: around a third of awakening experiences occur in situations of stress, depression and loss….. The second major trigger of awakening experiences identified by my research is contact with nature. Around a quarter of the experiences take place in natural surroundings, apparently induced by the beauty and stillness of nature. People reported awakening experiences that occurred while walking in the countryside, swimming in lakes, or gazing at beautiful flowers or sunsets. These are the types of experiences that were often described by romantic poets such as William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley……… The third most significant trigger of awakening experiences according to my research – with a similar frequency to contact with nature – is spiritual practice. This primarily means meditation, but also includes prayer and psycho-physical practices such as yoga or tai chi. The relaxing, mind-quietening effect of these practices seems to facilitate awakening experiences. …… After these three triggers, there are several slightly less significant ones….’ Read more at: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-31/september-2018/awakening
Two video clips by Prince Ea on light bulbs, cell phones and facebook…
Can we auto-correct humanity? By Prince Ea at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRl8EIhrQjQ
This is who you are by Prince Ea at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbO9K0tdhuU
Finally, two photos ……
On the island where I live there’s a country road several meters above sea level that joins two beaches. Unless it is exceptionally windy, blustery as Winnie the Pooh might say, I like to take short walks there, especially, since my dogs died for they gave me both the excuse and the motivation to go on much longer hikes. I like the fact that the road is on a hill and very close to the sea at the same time, which offers a beautiful view and stunning sunsets. So, yesterday as I was walking I saw a couple in the distance walking towards me. I didn’t really pay much attention until I realised that the man, who was big and substantially heavy, was walking in a somewhat frenzied zig zag way pulling off leaves from the trees flanking the road. Narratives started taking shape in my mind about him and his intentions as I wandered on which side of the road to walk on and if he would crash into me. I momentarily paused but then intuitively took the middle path and just kept walking. When I passed by them I said ‘hello’. My greeting was returned and I decided to abstain from making him wrong or judging his behaviour or intentions. It might have helped that I remembered a somewhat relevant quote 
by Pema Chodron about the middle way. ‘Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there’s a middle way, a very powerful middle way…… Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way….. true communication can happen only in that open space’.