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Becoming Untouchable

Not long after the last article went public, I received an unrelated text message from a close friend asking me about day-to-day methods for managing anger. Working a public-facing job as I do, I’ve become somewhat expert at that, though that’s not to say...

The Mind’s Undisturbed Flow

The state of restraint is when there is a disappearance of outgoing samskaras and the appearance of restraining samskaras. These emerge in the mind at the moment of restraint. The mind’s undisturbed flow occurs due to samskaras.Patanjali, Yoga Sutras III.10 We...

Practices to Abandon: What Yogis Do

The desire to renounce things is the obstacle. The Self is simple renunciation. The Self has renounced all.~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi compiled by Sri Munagala Venkataramiah, Talk 268 The past several days, as of this writing, have been...

Books To Forget: A Study Guide of Yoga Literature

Yoga is notoriously difficult to pin down. There are numerous schools and sects of Yogis crossing multiple religious bounds, and though there are major points of agreement between them there are also significant disparities in doctrine. I have a lot of trouble,...

Faith, or The Logic of Tantric Sorcery

The first thing a prospective mystic must do is to consciously reject promissory materialism. Like any sort of faith, this will take some time as the roots of ideologies with which we are raised run deep and wrap themselves tightly around all of our other beliefs and...

Dual & Nondual

There is no union, no disjunction between you and me or any other thing. ~ Avadhoota Gita, I.15 Let’s talk theology and metaphysics. Before I really get started, I want to say that this stuff is genuinely fun for me. I actively enjoy theology and metaphysics,...