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Category: psychology

When New Thoughts Conflict with Old Thoughts

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Bryce Haymond2 Comments

Some thoughts about our thoughts, about their relative nature, their complementary nature, and how even seemingly contradictory thoughts may both be valid in a transcendent sense.

Posted in philosophy, psychologyTagged coincidentia oppositorum, duality, ideas, mind, nonduality, opposites, thought, unity of opposites

The Inverse Proportional Paradox of Seeing Outwardly and Inwardly

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

It seems the more we see outwardly, the less we see inwardly? Some thoughts on the nature of the veil.

Posted in philosophy, psychologyTagged All-Seeing Eye, consciousness, emptiness, Jesus, kenosis, mind, mind's eye, nothing, seeing, seer, seership, sunyata, unveil, veil

Is it possible to “know” an Absolute, like God?

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Bryce Haymond10 Comments

Is the human mind capable of comprehending any absolute? I suggest no. And yet, there is a way of "knowing" the Absolute.

Posted in application, how to, language, nature, philosophy, psychologyTagged absolute, absolute truth, consciousness, gnosis, know thyself, knowing, knowledge, language, mind, recognition, relationships, relativity

Wave Analogies of Consciousness, Mind, and Ultimate Reality

May 6, 2020May 14, 2020 Bryce Haymond1 Comment

Many analogies can be used to help describe our nature, reality, the mind, and consciousness. Here are a few using waves.

Posted in nature, philosophy, psychology, scienceTagged analogy, consciousness, duality, eeg, metaphor, mind, New Age, nonduality, ocean, quantum mechanics, wave, wave-particle

Does God have a Face? A Mystical Perspective

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

What does it mean to see God's "face"? To see God "face to face"? Perhaps it is not the literal meaning that we often think it means.

Posted in philosophy, psychology, religion, scripturesTagged Buddhism, contemplation, face-to-face, God, Meister Eckhart, Moses, seeing, seer, St. Augustine

How Our Mind May Construct our Sense of Separation from God

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Bryce Haymond1 Comment

The human mind itself may create the illusion of separation from God or Ultimate Reality, and all other dualities. But how? And why?

Posted in philosophy, psychologyTagged avidya, consciousness, cosmic consciousness, Fall, illusion, maya, mind, object, objective, separation, sin, subject, subject-object split, subjective

Did Jesus Ever Doubt His Oneness in God?

April 28, 2020April 28, 2020 Bryce Haymond1 Comment

We seem to often think that Jesus always knew perfectly that he was One in God, and that this realization never wavered his entire life. But did it?

Posted in history, Jesus, prayer, psychology, scripturesTagged Christ, Christ consciousness, cross, doubt, duality, ego, false self, Jesus, nonduality, oneness, true self

A Mystical Interpretation of Jesus’ Parable of the Tares

April 25, 2020April 25, 2020 Bryce Haymond4 Comments

This parable may have a better interpretation viewed through the lens of mysticism than the traditional "us versus them" approach.

Posted in Jesus, psychology, scripturesTagged duality, ego, false self, Jesus, Kingdom of Heaven, parable, separation, symbol, symbolism, tares, true self, war, wheat

What is the Mystical “Light of God”?

April 2, 2020April 17, 2020 Bryce Haymond2 Comments

Many mystics describe seeing a bright light in their experiences. What is that?

Posted in philosophy, psychology, religionTagged blinding, blindness, consciousness, ego, ego death, energy, enlightenment, God, illumination, light, photon, sun, ultimate reality

What Will I Feel Like After Death?

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 Bryce Haymond2 Comments

The answer may be found in the question, in the identification of the "I." Who we think we are and who we really are affects how we consider life after death, and what we will thus "feel" there.

Posted in philosophy, psychology, religionTagged afterlife, death, ego, ego death, false self, identity, life, resurrection, self, self-awareness, Thomas Merton, true self

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