The new Eternal Awareness website is having a series of discussions based on Great River Institute's on-going Monday Meditation Class (see below for more information). As an unofficial adjunct of each class, each week EA is hosting a week's worth of discussions following the Monday evening class.
The master teacher of the GRI meditation group - Sensei - is currently active in the EA web-based discussion groups. I strongly urge you to consider participating in either the Monday class, the EA dis…
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Added by Mark Walter on July 7, 2009 at 12:00am —
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Eternal Awareness has relocated. Please update your links and RSS feeds. Posting on this site has been suspended. Please visit EA's
new home at: http://www.eternalawareness.com/
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Added by Mark Walter on July 2, 2009 at 2:30pm —
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New Online
Short Quotes
Sunyata
Altruism,Winifred Tiplin
Working in the sun, anonymous
New Online
Checking my links I found a few online texts that had, apparently, not been moved but deleted. This is mostly due to the Canadian website no longer having a large collection of online documents. I still had many links to their stuff up. M
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Added by Katinka Hesselink on July 1, 2009 at 11:57pm —
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People do not always have faith in their own internal voice of wisdom. They may not be ready or may not choose to listen. The soul is forever ready for awakening. The mind need only catch up with the reality that is and always has been.
In truth, every person is privy to experience that teaches them their own lives are not really chaotic or unmanageable. You are not meant to get attached to concepts or mindsets that are really just obsolete ideas about who you thought you were. Its not about wh…
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Added by Liara Covert on June 6, 2009 at 6:29pm —
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I am currently writing a book and simultaneously creating a completely new, top to bottom redesign of the Eternal Awareness website. The book's subject matter is the Art of Giving. The website will return EA to its own URL EA's current location here on Ning will be abando…
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Added by Mark Walter on June 3, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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New on All Considering
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Added by Katinka Hesselink on June 2, 2009 at 1:51am —
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"humility is a state of heart, [under the dominion of] a tamed and disciplined mind…"
Genuine humility has an innocence and tenderness of the heart, and it is the discipline of the mind that helps keep the heart centered in that place. Otherwise, we can easily become smug…
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Added by Mark Walter on May 31, 2009 at 1:30pm —
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How do we develop the self confidence to be Self confident? In the course of learning how to become more Self aware, we typically hesitate to express from a deeper place. Our hesitation is because we are unsure of what Self expression is exactly, and we…
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Added by Mark Walter on May 26, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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For a good long time I have struggled with the concepts of belief, disbelief, skepticism, knowledge, understanding, and others that orbit around what we call epistemology.
My main interest is in belief. I have passion feelings about it, dating back to the rabid atheist days of my youth, and I have somehow managed to preserve my dislike for the concept through many intellectual twists and turns.
A comprehensive essay on its interrelationships with human psychology is beyond the scope of a blog…
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Added by Mike MacLeod on May 22, 2009 at 2:54am —
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A man is standing in the middle-point of a small river, waist-deep, looking downstream. He can see, from this vantage point, the water flowing past him, and the banks of the river on each side.
Downstream, he sees several smaller creeks emptying into it on each side. The waters meet the water in "his" river and color it where they enter, but they mix into the greater river.
After a while the man wonders where the creeks come from, and with monumental effort (!) turns around and sees creeks flo…
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Added by Mike MacLeod on May 21, 2009 at 5:34am —
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I am considering making what might be a significant shift in the presentation of the Eternal Awareness site. Similar to many beginner bloggers, my early efforts had the hallmarks of timid writing and a sort of 'fumbling about' to discover the 'specific gravity' of…
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Added by Mark Walter on May 20, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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Esoteric Christianity is becoming more popular. It is a combination of belief in Jesus as a VERY special messenger and New Age beliefs like karma and reincarnation. People usually also believe in healing, aura reading and things like that. Examples of teachers of
Esoteric Christianity are
Rudolf Steiner and
Edgar Cayce.
I wo…
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Added by Katinka Hesselink on May 20, 2009 at 6:22am —
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Added by Katinka Hesselink on May 13, 2009 at 6:39am —
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Sometimes we acquire a learned behavior that (often rather strongly) suggests that if we have misfortune in our life, it is something that we have brought upon ourselves. If a child keeps skipping school, particularly for no good reason, then academic ‘justice’…
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Added by Mark Walter on May 7, 2009 at 7:00pm —
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Several years ago I wrote a short article titled
Hyperglycemic Spirituality. A bit of a searing rant, the piece points out that
"Genuine deep seekers of greater awareness wallow in solit…
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Added by Mark Walter on May 5, 2009 at 11:30am —
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This is a summary of my
monthly spiritual newsletter.
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Added by Katinka Hesselink on May 1, 2009 at 7:40am —
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One day, in my early 20s, I was playing a board game with my uncle, his wife and my grandmother. It was in his large house in Amityville, New York, with a big boathouse in the back yard. Across the canal was the famed 'Amityville Horror' house. I was always a pretty…
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Added by Mark Walter on April 21, 2009 at 10:00pm —
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Introduction: This post is from a comment stream on the post "
try, try, again" on Hidden Recess, and has been edited and expanded.
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Added by Mark Walter on April 11, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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i have now joined, left and re-joined Eternal Awareness... why?
for quite some time now i have let myself be victimized by someone on the web, and it has also spilled over into my personal life... there have been threats, lies, an assault, and even impersonations of me ...i've been exhausted by it...i've been fearful of it, physically, emotionally, mentally...
but what is at the real root of the fear? ...
that's easy...
it's humiliation...
...because mixed in with the lies is also a bit of…
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Added by joanne on April 9, 2009 at 12:30am —
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Can you escape from hell? Does light even exist in hell?
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One time some people were witnessing for Christ with me, and they asked me a question. “When you die and go to hell, is there any way to get out of hell?”
I said, “There’s always some measure of light in he…
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Added by Mark Walter on March 28, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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