I experience fear on many levels, and in waves that seem to come and go. My rational self feels that everything will be OK and that I am unnecessarily tormenting myself over nothing. I can go from heaven and then back to hell in an instant. There are two men in me: Crazy Man and Spiritual Man. Crazy Man was born, lives crazily... and dies. Spiritual Man was born, lives spiritually... and dies.

I have been studying metaphysics/positive thinking/spiritual truths for many years and in some ways I have grown from it. However, at this late date in my life I have to look up and say: "So what's it all about, really? " After all this knowledge, and acting on it most of the time, I am left without a friend, and now I have cut ties with my children. I have lost everything I ever possessed. I...

I have a friend, also a seeker, who regularly listens to various popular authors speaking about the path to enlightenment and who even teach methods for being present. My friend frequently tries to engage me in debating the merits of these teachings, challenging me to question what I am learning about waking up from you and from this website. I find that this puts me in conflict - not only wit...

I have had bad allergy problems over a period of years in response to certain chemicals in foods and in the environment. Reactions are triggered in distressingly familiar patterns when, for example, I am exposed to chemical sprays. This has caused me no end of worry and fear. Over the years I've used the "love the opposite" approach in an attempt to cancel the fear of exposure, and have even t...

Is the duality of the persona and shadow - and the evolution from the ground and back again - positive as described in your work (and various others) or... basically unwanted and un-needed by the level of pure awareness as described by yet other teachings? It seems to matter only if duality is viewed as purely positive on one side, and negative on the other? Or...is it a mixture of both on eit...

You teach that what troubles us about other people is that we have within us that quality we dislike in them, and that being around them stirs that quality in us. So, if this disturbance is around a person who abuses children, are you saying my resistance to that person is because I am like him or her, and that somewhere in me is the potentiality to be a child molester? Please help me understa...

I have been working with observing myself and have noticed a direct connection between my facial expression and emotional state. The problem is that the negative state that is making the changes in my appearance is so variable because of my thoughts and the need that I have to understand how to awaken my inner soul. Can you give me advise or let me know of any suggestion that you think will he...

If most of our life and reality is based upon our thoughts and beliefs, how do you explain then the so-called "third world poorness?" Do a billion people just think wrong and live for that in poorness and with the wildest sicknesses? I have difficulties with that way of thinking. And also it makes the victims more guilty! As if they just had the wrong thoughts.... Thanks for answering and tak...

Classroom Talk: 8/27/2021 - The present moment, what we call "Now" is a Presence; (it is) the revelation of what is being born -- living and dying -- in an eternal act of Creation; and because it is untouchable, incorruptible, it is only "be-able." It can only be entered into and realized as the source of our own Being by attending -- consciously -- to its perpetuity.

Do you have anything that will help eradicate the fear of death? I have experienced this for years and it makes my life miserable. I have tried many therapies over the years (which I have paid a fortune for), all to no avail. Actually I have an obsession with this fear as well as the fear of illness. I think the fear of illness really is that I would get an illness that would be terminal. I be...

Why isn't there actually a "secret" or technique for fearless living?...

All my life I have struggled with not having enough money. I have been playing the lottery and I do not know if it is wise to indulge in such ways. I want to see what has been holding me... I grew up in a very abusive environment with an angry father and a hard working mother who my father always humiliated in front of us. Being African I sometimes feel I have been placed under a black magic c...