December 21, LA | What is "conscience" and how does it lead you away from God and to God at the same time? |
December 14, LA | Learn to re-experience the pre-verbal world of an infant – before words took over your mind. Rediscover what it means to feel an unlimited universe and the absolute delight in being. |
December 7, LA | Being late for class is like being late for life. You are always chasing the moment and never catching up. |
November 30, LA | Questions from the class. How do you see the world as yourself? How do you go deeper? How do you deal with regret? |
November 23, LA | Learning to surf the turbulent waves of our volatile and stormy lives. |
November 16, LA | Forget everything you’ve learned about spiritual work. Like reading sex manuals, knowledge and information pale next to an orgasm. |
November 9, LA | The transformative power of the election in our daily and spiritual lives. Just remember, win or lose, God is on your side. |
November 3, NYC | Learn how to love the being and not the story that enfolds it. |
November 2, NY | Fear, hope, and transcendence and the choices we make in life. |
October 26, NY | What to do when you get stuck, personally, professionally, emotionally, spiritually. |
October 19, NY | Emotions have a short shelf life if you can just leave them alone. |
October 12, NY | Yet another talk on the economy – but with an optimistic slant. |
October 5, NY | Negative psychic tension release exercise. An essential practice for tense times. |
September 24, NYC | How to embrace personal and collective change. |
September 21, NY | There is a difference between trust, faith and knowing and each are needed in their time – especially in times like these. |
September 14, NY | You cannot learn the truth. It arrives as ignorance falls away. |
September 7, LA | Why not now? |
September 2, LA | Inexpressible joy and gratitude. |
August 20, NYC | There are good days and there are bad days. Say yes to the imperfect moment. Accept it and the door to yourself will open. |
August 17, NY | What the Olympics have to teach us about our spiritual practice. |
August 10, NY | The chakra system and how it relates to becoming a whole person. |
July 27, NY | BRAVE NEW WORLD, soma, and the impossibility of creating Utopia. |
July 20, NY | The biggest energy loss in the world is the energy lost through worry, fear and regret. |
July 14, NYC | Why have you come to this very moment? When will you realize that everything you ever wanted is right here? |
July 6, NY | Don’t mistake analyzing your life for knowing your Self. In time your life falls away. Your Self never does. |
June 29, LA | $5.00 a gallon gasoline, the North Pole melting, the end of life as we know it. Societal fear internalized and what to do about it. |
June 22, LA | Drama and intensity are the building blocks of life. Either you use them or they use you. |
June 8, NY | The place of love in spiritual practice. |
June 1, NY | This is it. This is all there is. There is nothing else but this. And this is it. |
May 25, NY | What it means to come to this class with no background in spiritual work or having studied with other teaches. |
May 18, NY | The delusions of a spiritual life. |
May 11, LA | "This is That", and "This is not That". These are ancient philosophical arguments and in the end both are true. |
May 4, LA | The burdens we all carry are full of nutrients. Don’t deny them, don’t suffer because of them, grow from them. |
April 27, LA | Living a conscious life. You don’t want to come to the end of your life having been conscious for 0.00002% of it. |
April 20, LA | Going beyond the fear of death. |
April 13, LA | You can’t be taught spiritual lessons, you arrive at them. What two weeks in the hospital revealed. |
March 23, LA | Easter Sunday and its lessons. How suffering leads to rebirth. |
March 16, LA | The inevitability of suffering. |
March 9, LA | On turning 65 and sharing the narrative of one’s life. The interaction of age and wisdom. |
March 1, LA | The need for subtlety in spiritual practice. You can’t muscle through. The only muscle you use is the muscle of letting go. |
February 24, LA | The essential power of the wish in spiritual growth. |
February 17, LA | Living happily ever after, even when the past week/month/year/decade sucks. |
February 10, LA | Get your act together. The spiritual necessity of re-parenting and repairing your lives. |
February 3, LA | Ringo and me. |
January 27, LA | The urgency of a spiritual life. |
January 20, LA | It’s all for you! Everything. In the deepest most personal sense, the universe exists for you. |
January 13, NY | Emotions and thoughts, which feel internal, are outside of you, and the world, which appears outside, is within. So where does that leave you? |