There may be people who experience positive effects from these drugs in small doses, however, psychedelics are becoming the gateway to spiritual enlightenment. Is it necessary to take mind-altering drugs to have a spiritual experience?

Today’s culture is ill equipped when it comes to healing mental illness. With mental illnesses on the rise, the western medical take a pill approach is clearly not working. Some people may receive benefits using medication, however the vast majority do not.

Do you think about the past? Is there a particular event, experience, encounter, or circumstance that your mind repeatedly zooms in on with laser like focus? Is this situation still occurring in your life, or is it simply playing like a movie through your mind on a regular basis?

This word self-awareness is discussed at length today. You might hear things like, “He’s just not self-aware, or she has no self-awareness. Or I’m incredibly self-aware, but the people around me are not.” What exactly are we talking about here? Is it simply having the ability to see things as they actually are or is it leading to something deeper than that?

Spiritual awakening is anything but easy. Despite the beautiful images of saints and sages symbolizing peace, the path to this inner dimension can prove incredibly challenging.

Waking up from the mental program can demonstrate how emotions and feelings dictate our lives. Without even knowing it, humanity is wired to feel an array of emotions, both positive and negative, which can easily distract you.

Witnessing someone break down, throw a fit, scream at the top of their lungs, express the most outrageous statements, or appear violent, full of rage, and seething with a desire to attack makes it very easy to despise them, doesn’t it?

There are so many spiritual teachers it’s hard to know who is coming from a place of genuine love, and who is simply looking for profit selling you another course, seminar, or book. Hawkins radiates truth by speaking from his own personal experiences and the suffering he endured in his own life, as well as the transformations, and moments of extraordinary expansive love.

Defining the form versus the content, one of the fundamental teachings within A Course in Miracles, can make all the difference when you are applying these practices to your actual life. It’s one thing to think about your spirituality, what you believe to be true, yet it’s quite another to practice it in your interactions with everyone around you.

When you are thinking and believing the ego’s dream, it is very easy to have impressions of others that may or may not be true. This is why people can catch you by surprise. Let’s take a deeper look at why the ego creates dysfunctional relationships and how you can shift into compassionate communication.