A Zen Master was walking in silence with one of his disciples along a mountain trail. When they came to an ancient cedar tree, they sat down under it for a simple meal of some rice and vegetables. …

Don’t identify with thought. You are not your thoughts. There are many tools of the mind. One of the most general and applicable is not identifying with thought. Instead, identify as the witness that is aware of your thoughts. In the same way you don’t identify with your clothes or…

The golden ratio appears in the shape of seashells, the proportions of the human body, and the arms of spiral galaxies. In the spirit of show don’t tell: The golden ratio:

Here are some inner dimensions that are part of growing as a human being. State: how good you feel, ranging from depression to euphoria Depth: how much experience you have in different States. Kind of life wisdom Complexity: general intelligence, how complex thoughts, patterns and tasks can you understand Symbols…

A society that takes inner growth and development seriously, to help more citizens realize their human potential. Development is real and it matters. Humans develop through a series of stages — albeit in a tricky, complex and often seemingly contradictory manner. But underneath the confusion is a relatively simple set…

The self is a “dividual”, as described by Deleuze, a transpersonal self. I am not the voice in my head, I am all that arises; you create me as I create you, we are not sealed containers, we are often more transparent to one another and controlled by one another…

The primary characteristic of people of the metamodern value meme is that they value qualitative development of human beings: that people go up in stage, that psychological development is supported and that you work to create a new society beyond the modern one. Because they have a more developmental perspective…

Metamodernism is a cultural and aesthetic movement that emerged in the early 21st century as a response to the postmodernism that dominated art, literature, and culture in the late 20th century. The term was first introduced in 1975, but it gained wider recognition in the 2010s when it was adopted…

Sci-fi/fantasy: A fire upon the deep (Vinge) Player of Games (Banks) Hydrogen Sonata (Banks) Hyperion trilogy (Dan Simmons) Excession (Banks) Dune trilogy (Frank Herbert) Foundation series (Isaac Asimov) The Gods Themselves (Asimov) Metamorphis of prime intellect (Roger Williams) The Riftwar Saga (Raymond E. Feist) Spirituality: Untethered soul (Singer) Awareness (de Mello) Awakening…