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Our lack of awareness of Being results in bewildering experience. The intrinsic inner radiance, the inner light of Being arises out of primordial luminous spaciousness, the unbound openness of unbound pure potentiality. When this... more
Donald Winnicott's radical existential psychoanalytic understanding of transitional awareness and transitional relatedness is an amazing and little used doorway for today's psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. In today's cognitive clinical... more
It is not easy to understand the nature of the guru and understanding the nature of the guru can be bewildering. There is often bewilderment about the guru. One source of the bewilderment is that people think that the guru is an... more
Carl Jung describes how the human unconscious is the hidden cosmological archetypal dimension of our being in the world. There is the personal unconscious that reflects personal history and experience either forgotten or foreclosed. There... more
We have two ways of knowing. Our mind knows forms, things, both subtle and gross. Faces, hands, buildings, trees, math formulas, mind knows subject and the mind knows otherness. The mind knows dualities, the mind knows me and you, us and... more
A person's own inner most awareness and the movements within their awareness field bring forth their direct personal experience of their cosmological archetypal field of awareness. This spontaneous event is given to us within the... more
is obscured because of the compelling actuality of our dualistic experience within the dualistic forms of phenomena. Phenomena is compelling! Our indivisibleness within each other and our indivisibleness with Being is obscured and made... more
What is amazing is that the unfolding of our felt sense of ongoing continuity of Being and the felt sense of the continuity of our sense of self is a convergent experience. Our very sense of self and our very sense of Being are intimately... more
The felt sense of whoness is not a me-ness…me is self-fixation and in fact the sense of whoness can free us from objectified self-fixation. The sense of me often replaces the sense of who. When the experiential nonconceptual felt sense of... more
This essay examines the similarities and dissimilarities between Freudian psychoanalysis and the form of analysis outlined by Sartre in Being and Nothingness in relation to the theory of intentionality developed by Brentano and Husserl.... more
Timeless awareness is the essence of Dzogchen. Time experienced within timeless awareness is also an expression of the essence of Dzogchen. Dzogchen is an ancient form of Tibetan mystic humanism. Dzogchen makes the essential distinction... more
The focus of Dzogchen practice is to experientially understand the nature of our awareness through awareness itself. To be nonconceptually aware of the nature of our awareness is rig pa or open presence.The root or the source of all... more
For much of my personal and professional life I have had an enduring interest in the distinction between mind and awareness. As my education unfolded over these many years, I have been happy to recognize that this distinction between mind... more
Mind Alone For many years psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy was singularly centered on the unconscious mind and conscious mind. There was only mind and the mind could become aware of its own self and its own representational... more
There are many different forms of meditation and many different views.
One Knower: Different Modes of Knowing In all philosophical and psychological traditions knowing has many different meanings. In Tibetan Buddhism there is nondual Dzogchen and in Hinduism there is nondual Kashmir Shaivism. In both these... more
1.For Husserl phenomenology is an experiential philosophy of essence as phenomena. For Husserl there is the indivisibility of the essence and the manifestation of the essence which manifestation is phenomena, the manifestation of... more
Merleau Ponty suggests that the Phenomenology of awareness gives rise to a phenomenology of the invisible becoming visible.
What we"ll be exploring together today is awareness, becoming aware of awareness, and working with awareness, both with our own selves and with the other. It"s a very simple topic, actually, yet it"s not easy to hold awareness, to enter... more
The lucidity of awareness is experienced directly through the doorway of our subjectivity as our own innermost awareness. As we gaze into our own interiority we can experience the unfolding of the manifestation of this field of radiance... more
Gestalt Therapy techniques are considered to be powerful tools for the remobilization of human growth and change. I will attempt to show that the power of these techniques lies in the fact that they are effective ways of dealing with our... more
Welcome to our study of contemporary existential phenomenological psychotherapy. We will focus on the phenomenology of awareness. Through the practice of the suspension (epoche) of the mind, a person can enter into transitional space or... more
In the Gudyargarbha tantra there is this most wonderful verse. Appearances, sounds, and thoughts are the diety, mantra and the state of dharmakaya. What this wonderful language brings forward into our awareness is the amazing... more
1. Welcome to our study of contemporary awareness field psychotherapy. We will focus on the phenomenology of awareness. Through the practice of the suspension (epoche) of the mind, a person can enter into transitional space or the... more
There is similarity of the theme of becoming self liberated through the manifestation of appearance in both dzogchen and Heideggarian phenomenology. There is this similarity between the dzogchen meditative awareness tradition as... more
Within the nature of the primordial ground of Being ,there is Spontaneous Presence.This spontaneous presence is the nature of the ground. This spontaneous presence abides as the inner radiance of the ground, the ground is basic space and... more
We have focused on the transmission of the field of awareness and on the extension of the field into the present, the past and the future. We have focused on cutting through methods which are forms of the methodology of the ancient... more
I appreciate Erin's sharing of her meditation experience within which the experience of the symbolic body is cut through…or cutting through in the context of Troma Nagmo. It was both beautiful and completely informing about the archetypal... more
Good Friday is the day of death, and Easter Sunday is the day of light. Of course death and light are completely intimate, completely one.
Our .personal innermost awareness is our very own subjectivity . Our subjectivity is our awareness and awareness is our subjectivity. Aham ah! I am becoming who I am!. This subjectivity is not the subjectivity of the mind. Such mind based... more
Today and tomorrow, our theme will be psychosomatic oneness. We will focus on oneness and its lack, then, more specifically, on the mind/body [duality or split], working with splits, and regaining oneness. Let"s enter our awareness right... more
Issue of The Humanistic Psychologist (Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 1988, 278 pp.) "Existential analysis" was introduced to the English reader in 1958 with the publication of Rollo May, Ernest Angel, and Henri Ellenberger's Existence: A New... more
The paper focuses on the natural unfolding of awareness into non duality
Dudjom Rinpoche would say: Know the one thing that frees everything, your own awareness.
This article presents an existential psychotherapist’s examination of foundational concerns in depth psychology and psychotherapy. Following a phenomenological, hermeneutic approach to inquiry, it begins by tracing the historical origins... more
We have been following Penam Rinpoche's teaching that fixation is the singular problem. In Dzogchen, fixation "un-determines" our experience of the awareness field.
This article assesses a realm of psychoanalytic social theory that is relatively under-discussed – existential psychoanalysis – in order to gain further insight into the relationship of psychoanalytic ideas to humanism. I offer a reading... more
All in all, one is the other making contact with this aspect of one's representational life. One is trying to bring the representation out of the analytic mind, into the experientialand then into the field itself through dramatic... more
This paper focuses on the base of awareness as described from a phenomenological view and view of dzogchen.
Sublimation is little understood both in contemporary psychotherapy and psychology as well in much of the practice of eastern philosophy and mysticism.
1. To experience the unfolding of the kayas of the awareness field, to experience the manifestations of the nature of consciousness in ourselves, or to experience the unfolding of gnosis, direct perception, as the ground of being…is a... more