Comprehend that you are still living with a pre-Copernicus mindset.

A clergyman in a cathedral, in 1543 Copernicus published a treatise postulating that the sun does not appear to rise and set as a consequence of it revolving around the earth (the latter of which the Church presumed to be the center of the universe); to the contrary, he asserted, the earth revolves around the sun, which is stationary, and it is the earth’s axial rotation which provides the appearance of a rising and setting sun.

Nearly ninety years passed before Galileo’s interest in physics and telescopes resulted in publication (in 1632) of experimental verification of Copernicus’ revelation (followed by Galileo’s trial before Rome’s inquisition the following year).

Like the pre-Copernicans who were without doubt that the earth graced the hub of the universe, most people today still suppose that “cause and effect” is such a truism that it is a physical fact.

This was disproved, now more than 40 years ago!

Click here to read about simple pointers about how physics and non-duality are similar.

This is another post from Greg Goode's upcoming userguide to the direct path! 

Freedom from Thought

Thoughts seem to be mental objects that point to things.  Beliefs are thoughts that seem to point to other thoughts.  But ironically, thoughts don't literally point to anything other than awareness.  Inside this post, we'll see how.

Click here to read Greg's full article, Freedom from Thought.

Reflections on the rarity of Wild-Heartedness.

"I walked the Path of the Idiot to get here,
Burning scriptures for warmth, along the way.

How sweet to find you in this Vastness.
Are you mad, as well?

If not, you will be.
Free at last from 'sanity'."

Click here to push open the village gates, and wander with me into the Wilderness of Heart...

Become aware of being aware, always present behind every experience, every thought, feeling, sensation and perception. Rupert Spira asks us to notice awareness in his new article, Seamless Intimacy.

StillnessSpeaks announces the immanent release of it's new DVD, Western Masters of Non-Duality, sharing an all new dialogue video clip. Click here to watch the new video clip of Rupert Spira and read the free article, Seamless Intimacy.

Be sure to mark your calendars for Rupert Spira's next U.S. appearance, an intimate intensive being held in New York City on the weekend of March 25th through the 27th. Click here for more information on Rupert's event.

Are we a part of the cosmos? Robert Wolfe delves deeply into this question in this weeks entry, The Tiger's Tail:

Our world, of reality, appears to be an organism which symbiotically integrates myriad disparate, yet quintessential, parts.

We each normally think of ourself as one of these inter-dependent parts, somewhat like an atom in a cosmos that we liken to a vast molecule.

Viewing ourself to be a “part” of the cosmos, we are ineluctably condemned to be “apart” from the very cosmos that we determine that we are “in”, in the same way that we consider an electron to be “apart” from the atom that it is “in”.

We hold the idea that while the cosmos is entirely necessary for the presence of my particular being, my particular being is not entirely necessary for the presence of the cosmos.

In other words: we hold the idea that the cosmos is limitless, I am not.

Or, put another way, we have the deep feeling that the cosmos is one thing, I am something else.

Internal and External are never our experience. 

Greg Goode share insights regarding what we call inside and outside. Also, watch a new video clip with Greg Goode from our new upcoming DVD, Western Masters of Non-Duality.

Our everyday idea, which usually follows us in an unexamined way into nondual inquiry, is that knowledge, perception and awareness have an inside and an outside.  This means that they are limited, and that some objects reside inside these limits and other objects reside outside these limits.  So “internal” means “internal to our awareness.”  “External” means “External to our awareness.”  There are two reasons that the internal/external distinction doesn’t make sense when it comes to awareness.

Click here to read Greg's full article, No Internal or External.

"The Enlightenment Teachings"

Adapted from 

The Gospel of Thomas: The Enlightenment Teachings of Jesus 

by Robert Wolfe

Throughout history, spiritual traditions of all kinds have employed certain designations in common: principal among these are the words “relative” and “absolute.” The meanings which these words represent are fundamental to the comprehension of the spiritual message.

Click here to read more of Robert Wolfe's discussion on Enlightenment Teachings.

Recently, we were given a rare interview conducted by Drs Evelyn and Paul Moschetta, New York City marriage counselors, with Jean Klein on the topic of relationships and marriage. To our knowedge, it is the only publically available discussion on the topic of love relationships. Click here  to view this film dialogue with Jean Klein for free.