Posts by meestereric
On Beyond Resistance
This is a more an artistic, “synchronistic musing” as a friend called it, than a philosophical or logical exploration. So read it as such. Enjoy … Sitting on the balcony, pondering a friend’s request to expand on the “RESISTANCE IS FUTLE” section in my “The Dawning of Love” post, saying “…to me that is most…
Read MoreWhy Write? Notes About Writing and Love
Someone asked their spiritual teacher about writing a book about their story, the remarkable experiences they’ve had that brought them to where they are now. The felt they should write about it. But they had trouble doing it, or even getting started. So here are this writer’s reflections on this. Why write? How to…
Read MoreThe Dawning of Love
Just a short post to describe an experience – or attempt to. I would sum up the week’s seeing as: All I Have To Give Is Love Stated more precisely: All I have is love (to give) and it’s not even really mine, or something that can be given away per se, it’s what…
Read MoreOn Beyond On Beyond Ericplatt.com
Update: Writing to Stay for the Time Being Given the minor outpouring of support and interest from readers both spiritual and material (both are greatly appreciated), the writings will stay up for the foreseeable future (but may be edited to varying degrees of course) – either where they are, or at a new domain somewhere.…
Read MoreOn Beyond Nonduality: You Are An Utter Failure
The tension in nondual philosophy is that it contradicts with most experience, or seems to – for many of us mere mortal-seeming humans – so that it sets up a tension between a supposed special or non-dual experience and one’s own experience. In other words it seems to be saying there is something else besides…
Read MoreOn Beyond Ericplatt.com
Hello friends – The following is the little rant I wrote yesterday, about why I am letting this hosting account expire, before I formulated a more reasoned and seasoned (concise and polite, lighthearted?) post for Facebook today (on the group I used for posting non-dual stuff, and various expressions: Group With No Name). Well…
Read MoreWill The Real Sage Please Stand Up?
Who Becomes Enlightened? Who Is The Real Sage? Topic: This article, this little foray, is about coming to grips with one of the the central paradoxes in a field of paradoxes*, of the spiritual game here on Earth, for the spiritual seeker who wants enlightenment, who thinks the messenger is in some way the message,…
Read MoreOn Beyond Concepts
All Teachings are Dodos, and Tightening up what this Site is About I let my personal feelings cloud my discernment, and published a guest essay that I realized was of more of a religious or spiritual-y nature or attitude or tone than I really wanted in the site’s philosophical mosaic. This chalkboard here is…
Read MoreThe Difference Between Wanting To Feel Better and Understanding
INTRODUCTION Often on the self-help, spiritual and non-dual paths, there is the experience that one is on a rollercoaster ride of feelings, or feel like one is not progressing anymore, or very slowly. You might get into low moods, or react strongly to some situation, or in general are not as happy or at peace…
Read MoreGuest Post: WHAT IS GRACE?
A brief and poetic parable by Luciana Bellini WHAT IS GRACE? ––––– Grace is like a Queen that has been preparing the palace For the visit of God. She has been doing that since that day, When she heard a knock on the door. Feeling the immensity of what was behind it, She was afraid……
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