Presence
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
The underlying discomfort, slight anxiety, something’s not quite right…boredom… What is it that is lurking beneath the surface? You stand in line at the cafe, eat your dinner alone, sit in front of the TV, go to work, talk to the neighbor, clean the house… Still, nothing removes this feeling. Something is not at rest. Where to go, what else to do? Something must get done right now, somewhere… There must be someway to move ahead, something more to take care of. Surely time is running out. What if I never arrive? When will I get there? Thoughts. Coming and going. Slight irritation. You feel it ..read more
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Presence
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
The underlying discomfort, slight anxiety, something’s not quite right…boredom… What is it that is lurking beneath the surface? You stand in line at the cafe, eat your dinner alone, sit in front of the TV, go to work, talk to the neighbor, clean the house… Still, nothing removes this feeling. Something is not at rest. Where to go, what else to do? Something must get done right now, somewhere… There must be someway to move ahead, something more to take care of. Surely time is running out. What if I never arrive? When will I get there? Thoughts. Coming and going. Slight irritation. You feel it ..read more
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An Ancient Ally
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
When awareness is awake and conscious of itself, everything that it experiences takes on an illuminated quality. This means that there is a conscious, awake, presence, which is love, that shines brightly upon everything in it’s wake. Nothing can come into it without being fully embraced. Interestingly, this light relentlessly turns towards the darkest tunnels and dwellings of the psyche, finding the root of separation itself. It unearths from this deeply unconscious and hidden space, deeply buried and ancient energies. It also amplifies any separation that the self has dealt with already, prio ..read more
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A Stranger’s Land
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
Most people live in an illusion. They believe that who they are is their belongings, their job, their career path, their families, their money, their health, their body. In fact, most of us believe that when we have nothing that we are deeply flawed. We do not belong. Unfortunately, the world mirrors this belief to us. That unless we’re successful, wealthy, mentally well, strong, courageous, beautiful, loved by others etc…we are screwed. Perhaps, it was never your goal to belong to a world in which we are all strangers to ourselves outside of what we “have”, what we’ve “accomplished”, how sexy ..read more
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Wholeness
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
Our whole lives, most of us learn that when we’re feeling stuck, lost, unloved, or abandoned we must turn outside of ourselves to solve the problem. Eventually, we turn to becoming more “spiritual” “awake” or “conscious” to do this. We use yoga, meditation, journaling, psychotherapy, plant medicine, prayer etc to fix a world of wrongs. We ask silly questions like “How can I embody Christ consciousness?” , getting wrapped up a story of ascension, enlightenment, or awakening. We become addicted to those aha – clarity moments. Each time we discover a limiting belief or have some sort of prof ..read more
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Midnight Oil: Poems, Short Stories, & Musings
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
Hello Friends, my latest book of poems and short stories is out now. In a way, this is always an act of courage for me. Opening the door into the most dark, and bright, and vulnerable places that I dwell in. But perhaps, these are the only places where we can truly connect with one another and glimpse something beyond the ordinary… The words in this book point only to life; life in all of its immaculate, destructive, creative, lovely, decaying, contrasting glory. To be present, is to be alive, and to witness a miracle. This book is the result of witnessing. It points to the everlasting, yet te ..read more
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Personal Freedom & Non Duality
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
One of the most common confusions in non duality is the belief that personal freedom is enlightenment. In fact, personal freedom is an impossibility, because the very person that desires to “be free” is that which dwells bound in a cage. This cage, of course, is illusory and the person itself is the cage. When non duality states that the person does not exist, it is pointing to an unrelenting reality: that you are ALREADY free. However it is not “you” the person that is free.  You do not exist – only everything exists. And if only everything exists, then an individual person is an impossi ..read more
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Non Duality Is Not Enough
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
A deeply spiritual exploration of awakened, no-mind states like non dual consciousness and furthermore, a deep experience of such states, is rarely ever fully satisfying and fully complete. While one may go on years living in a non dual state, rarely, does living in such an extraordinary state of consciousness acquit one of the inner, human “work” that such a shift in consciousness essentially makes available. Many aspirants on the path get stuck in non duality, because this living quality of awakening is not brought into practice, or rather their awakening lies incomplete and unintegrated. Aw ..read more
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The Fires of Love
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
Walking Into The Fire However it is that one arrives at the gates of non duality, whether by accident, by experience, or because of a deep and complete calling for Truth, there is no turning back. On this path, once begun, there must be a full and complete acceptance of dualistic energies: light and dark, conscious and unconscious, truth and lies. The path of non duality is not either / or; it is both. No longer is life experienced through a filter. Life, in all of it’s excruciating beauty and pain, arrives at your door step and it wants to step inside. The human form, the ego, the parts that ..read more
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Stop the Noise
Spiritual Shifts
by kate
1y ago
During the dissolution of a sense of separation, or the personal identity, (or an an energetic collapse), the truth of who you are, your silence, becomes somewhat like a magnet. The strong pull and force of your true nature acts like a limitless void and black hole, into which the separate energy, including all its games is drawn to. This can feel like loosing a sense of center, disorienting, confusing, and scary. Your world as you know it, is collapsing…and quite frankly there is nothing you can do about it. From here an interesting paradox appears…the energy is suspended between two worlds…t ..read more
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