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Excerpt: Questioner: I don’t know what I want for next year. Well, I do know. Just to get in touch with myself and find me again. This year has been a hell year. And next year is all about me.

Excerpt: Her friend, a man, was just a normal guy going to work at a company, married with a kid. Then one day he started getting bad headaches. A few weeks after that he started seeing auras, energy fields around people. Wherever he would look, he would see energy fields around people. In Japan, that’s very taboo. Japanese is society is very repressed in many ways. It was a problem for him. Then, somehow, his wife s

Mr. Gurdjieff, who was a spiritual teacher, said, “Profit by everything that raises your temperature.” And by that, he meant that whatever stirs up an emotional state in you is an opportunity for self-study and growth. It’s an opportunity to transform this energy into something better, higher, and more joyous. It’s only with positive emotions that we can experience a higher, sacred state. Angels don’t want our hate a

Excerpt: Denial and dreaming are usually unconscious derailments from a healthy meditation practice. The most dangerous misuse of meditation is the intentional development of powers that will be used to control, dominate, or harm. This is certainly possible. Just as a man may study martial arts with the will to harm, so may he develop dangerous psychological and even psychic skills.

I taught what I consider to be the most intense meditation class in the short history of the Tuesday night class at YogaOne Studios. We sat across from a partner, gazed into their eyes, and did an energetic exercise. This experience pressed upon our personal and energetic boundaries.

The Houston Integral & Ken Wilber Meetup on February 8, 2012 MP = Michael Perkola Q = Questioners/Attendees 12 guests in attendance. We began with the meditation of “I AM” with feeling & sensing. MP: The topic is “integration” from the viewpoints of neuroscience, spiritual theory, and meditation. I feel much better after that meditation. [laughter] This is one of my favorite meditations because it focuses on

Click to download the music compilation. Buy the CD here or look for it on iTunes. MP = Michael Perkola Q = Questioner/Attendee 22 guests in attendance. MP: Energy. Any movement requires energy, like moving your arm. The activity of your psyche – thinking and feeling – also requires energy. Many of us come to the meditation class because we suffer from automatic movements of the psyche: stress, worry, daydream,