“Behind the multiplicity of forms there is a single reality.”

– Aldous Huxley –

“Behind the multiplicity of forms there is a single reality.”

– Aldous Huxley –

About the Beware Thing

Like any journey toward an unfamiliar destination, a spiritual path pursued with tenacity, honesty, and earnestness will gradually reveal some profound revelations. The mother of them all? You don’t exist the way you’ve been programmed to believe. Like apples and quarks and the jerk who cut you off in traffic, you’re an expression of the One, a life being lived versus someone living a life. So yeah, beware of the Doug [your ego name goes here]. If you need some gear for your trek, I run a sister site with resources collected from a broad collection of mystics, masters, seers and sages. Good luck!

About the Beware Thing

Like any journey toward an unfamiliar destination, a spiritual path pursued with tenacity, honesty, and earnestness will gradually reveal some profound revelations. The mother of them all? You don’t exist the way you’ve been programmed to believe. Like apples and quarks and the jerk who cut you off in traffic, you’re an expression of the One, a life being lived versus someone living a life. So yeah, beware of the Doug [your ego name goes here]. If you need some gear for your trek, I run a sister site with resources collected from a broad collection of mystics, masters, seers and sages. Good luck!

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Then What?

Published On: March 4, 2019

We imagine that the so-called 'spiritual path' is principally reserved for the world's sufferers. The miserable set out to find themselves or the truth or God or whatever, so that they can put an end to their suffering and get back to the business of living life. That was more or less the mindset of[...]

Why Humans Should Come With Warning Labels

Why Humans Should Come With Warning Labels

Published On: February 12, 2019

In case you missed it, the planet’s insects have now joined the planet's other animal groups, its rainforests and oceans, its climate and mammals, in a catastrophic collapse that puts the entire biosphere (aka life on Earth) at risk. By now you no doubt know the routine: humankind sets out to 'fix' a problem - in[...]

The Choice is Yours

The Choice is Yours

Published On: February 4, 2019

If you really stop to think about it, to whittle down human existence to its rawest essence, each of us has but one of two choices to make: invest our lives in the outside world, or turn inward to find the source of the one said to be experiencing that world (and itself in it).[...]

The irony of self-esteem

The Irony of Self-Esteem

Published On: January 10, 2019

Self-confidence. Self-loathing. Key measuring sticks by which we measure human happiness or misery, success or failure. We eschew self-loathing, but we aspire to self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love. And what we really want (but shhhh, don't admit it, since that would make us look bad), is to stand just a little taller than the neighbor, to make more[...]

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  • The Ultimate Gift

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  • Shhhh….

    Another day, another city burns, a bomb detonates, another someone goes berserk stabbing and shooting others, and everywhere the mass of humanity wrings its hands and stews and frets and points fingers and prays. Pity the[...]

  • Where is the Wisdom?

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  • The Joy of Meaninglessness

    Nothing matters. Now there's a fun-loving rhetorical turd you should try dropping at a dinner party sometime. People go positively apoplectic when you suggest their lives - life itself - is meaningless. But it's true.[...]

then what

Then What?

We imagine that the so-called 'spiritual path' is principally reserved for the world's sufferers. The miserable set out to find themselves or the truth or God or whatever, so that they can put an end[...]

Why Humans Should Come With Warning Labels

Why Humans Should Come With Warning Labels

In case you missed it, the planet’s insects have now joined the planet's other animal groups, its rainforests and oceans, its climate and mammals, in a catastrophic collapse that puts the entire biosphere (aka life on[...]

The Choice is Yours

The Choice is Yours

If you really stop to think about it, to whittle down human existence to its rawest essence, each of us has but one of two choices to make: invest our lives in the outside world,[...]

The irony of self-esteem

The Irony of Self-Esteem

Self-confidence. Self-loathing. Key measuring sticks by which we measure human happiness or misery, success or failure. We eschew self-loathing, but we aspire to self-confidence, self-esteem, self-love. And what we really want (but shhhh, don't admit it,[...]

“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe. It is everywhere.”

– Black Elk –

Black Elk

“Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe. It is everywhere.”

– Black Elk –

Black Elk beware of the doug

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Perennial Way

I’ve collected a lot of useful resources along the way and share them here for those on the same path.

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My Other Sites

Perennial Way

A collection of resources (teachers, books, organizations, etc.) that may be of use to others on a similar journey.

Kidzu

Originally focused on extracurricular activities for kids but expanded to include more meaningful focuses.