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Petoskey MI Home for Sale

703 Kalamazoo Avenue, Petoskey MI Home for Sale

Listed with the Pete Platte at Gaslight Group Properties, this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath house is only 6 blocks from downtown Petoskey, MI.

House is approximately 1650 square feet with master bedroom on first floor. There are three large bedrooms on second floor with full bath.

This home is…

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Do We Really Want to Know Ourselves?

How little personality really wants to know

“….don’t worry if, at the end of any day, you suddenly realize that you can’t remember a word I’ve said. That doesn’t matter. It’s the journey itself that’s going to change you.” Ishmael – by Daniel Quinn (A gorilla comments on the current state of affairs)

It seems obvious – our attention is skewed by our enneagram fixationAND it functions in a…

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#ego #enneagram #personality #Personality Types #superego

Inquiry & Love - A Diamond Approach Dialectic on the Journey of Ascent

Inquiry & Love – A Diamond Approach Dialectic on the Journey of Ascent

Head, Heart and the Process of Understanding

The prompting to pen this came from a recent question posted on Facebook:

Does the Diamond Approach’s focus on psychology and the issues of the personality feel overly-emphasized?

This led to thoughts along tangential threads of discussion – Is the Diamond Approach too head oriented? Does the Diamond Approach (DA) lack heart? And similar questions I…

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#A. H. Almaas #journey of ascent #object relations #open ended inquiry #process-of-understanding

Super Pac Fracking in Michigan

Super Pac Dark Money Fracking

Super Pac Dark Money Fracking is the final book in the “Super Pac Trilogy” by local Petoskey, Michigan author, Stewert James.

In Dark Money Fracking a handful of global billionaires continue their quest for clandestine political influence; extending their cold-blooded reign into the far reaches of Northern Michigan and the oil fields of Turkmenistan.

Stewart James…

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#fracking #McLean & Eakin Bookstore #MI #Michigan #Petoskey #Stewert James #Super Pac

The Abandoned Meditator

Does Meditation Need Me?

Is your day ever like this?

I wake up. Lie in bed a bit. Sense, Look and Listen.

I get out of bed, go to the bathroom, brush teeth, put some water on hair and comb, splash some water on face…

Now it’s time to meditate. I go to the meditation chair and get situated. I do an Om salutation and I meditate.

My meditation practice ends. I rise from the chair, leave the bedroom…

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#meditation #meditator #nondual

Continual Practice

Going Nowhere Meditation

One gift of continual practice is that stopping and starting, beginning and ending our practice is no longer relevant.

All practice involves awareness and presence. As we know, these aspects of True Nature are fundamental to experience. Attending to and cultivating awareness and presence is practice. What difference does it make if we attend and cultivate when we sit or…

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#meditation

Tantra of Everyday Life

Beyond Sex Tantra and Tantra & Yoga in Everyday Life

I’ve been working with the Ridhwan School to help promote their upcoming 5-day retreat on Tantra of Everyday Life. My initial efforts focused on distributing the flyer and getting it posted on Facebook and a PR release.

The next step was working with others to help create this video interview by Tami Simon (Sounds True) with A. H. Almaas and…

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#A. H. Almaas #divine eros #eros #oga #sex #tantra

Have a Heart for Brother Dan's

Petoskey’s 5th Annual Have A Heart Valentine’s Benefit Event for Brother Dan’s Food Pantry

Let’s…

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#Brother Dan&039;s #Petoskey

Lovehandle Healing for Parkinson's

Can LovehandlesHelp Parkinson’s Patients?

My friend, Florentin, is trying to raise over $40K for stem cell treatments for Parkinson’s. There’s a process for collecting stem cells from your lovehandles and using them for treatment that offers some hope. I…

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#Parkinson&039;s #stem cell