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An example of self-inquiry
The first step in self inquiry is self observation. If you don’t see your own inner workings you cannot analyse them. What you cannot see about yourself, you are unconscious of. I think it was Carl...
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Attitudes for spiritual growth
Attitudes The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. -William James An attitude is the feeling or disposition towards...
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What is Spiritual?
What is Spiritual? The word spiritual means different things to different people. It often has connotations of religion or psychic phenomena or physical healing. To some people the word suggests...
View ArticleThree stages of Life
Three Stages of a Human Life There are three layers to a human life, physical, psychological and spiritual. They develop or mature in that order. Each layer has a developmental duration of around...
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Anxiety, results from misidentification of who we really are.
Anxiety Anxiety is a chronic condition as opposed to fear which tends to be a response to an immediate danger. We can name the fear. We experience a flood of adrenaline when exposed to a danger and...
View ArticleThis Above All, a spiritual biography by Tess Hughes
Introductory Chapter to This Above All a spiritual biography by Tess Hughes. A few years ago a man wrote asking me if I would consider writing my...
View ArticleThe Origin of Self Scripts
The Origin of Self Scripts Everyone has self-scripts; messages we repeat to ourselves frequently. It’s our internal running commentary, often below the radar of attention but sometimes loud enough to...
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This Above All; Spiritual Memoir
I have recently written a book, which is to be published in April by TAT Press in the USA. It’s a memoir titled This Above All. The review copy, the work in progress. I’ve been asked, why a memoir,...
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“Life is long if you know how to use it.” Seneca
“Life is long if you know how to use it.” Seneca (4BC – 65AD) Seneca, about two thousand years ago wrote: “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long...
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Are you a people pleaser?
Are you a people pleaser? Are you someone who regularly denies or hides your own feelings and thoughts in order to avoid conflict or rejection? Do you feel or have you learned that you need to act...
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Aldous Huxley, Hubert Benoit, Philosophy, Truth and Zen
Aldous Huxley http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0892812729 FOREWORD PHILOSOPHY in the Orient is never pure speculation, but always some form of transcendental pragmatism. Its truths, like those of modern...
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TAT Foundation November 2015 Gathering
TAT November Gathering Friday November 20 – Sunday, November 22, 2015 Discernment Discernment means separating the wheat from the chaff, the more true from the less true. “If the Truth is within us,...
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The Benefits of Fasting by Art Ticknor
Art Ticknor www.selfdiscoveryportal.com What follows is a letter Art Ticknor sent to participants for an upcoming retreat; guidelines to prepare themselves to get most benefit from the intensive...
View ArticleAs I began to Love myself, – poem by Charlie Chaplin
Someone posted this on Facebook today, and I can’t resist posting it here. Why not write a self-love poem to yourself? CHARLIE CHAPLIN – AS I BEGAN TO LOVE MYSELF – SELF LOVE POEM As I Began to...
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In Search of The Miraculous
Chapter 6, In Search of the Miraculous by P. Ouspensky, relating the teaching of George Gurdjieff. George Gurdjieff ONE of the next lectures began with a question asked by one of those present: What...
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Discernment is the Path
Discernment is the Path The spiritual path, the journey home to ourselves, is the path of discernment: becoming discerning about every aspect of ourselves. A fundamental aspect of becoming discerning...
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THE MAP IS THE TREASURE
THE MAP IS THE TREASURE by Gillian Treacy A description of a recent four-day intensive with Tess Hughes and friends at Parvani Hall, Co. Galway, Ireland. I chose the above title for a description of...
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“Man hears what he wants to hear and…….
“Man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest” Simon and Garfunkel Regard; look, see, view, behold, witness, perceive, discern, detect, find, notice: consider, reflect upon, contemplate,...
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On the Value of Spending Time Alone
Many years ago I read a book by Alice Koller titled An Unknown Woman, subtitled A Journey of Self-discovery. It didn’t claim to be a spiritual book or make any claims other than being an autobiography...
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The Circus Animals’ Desertion by WB Yeats
This being the year of William Butler Yeats’ 150th birth, one of the great poets of this era, I thought I’d take a look at one of this last poems, written in the last year of his life, when he knew he...
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