About

Hi and Welcome to this site!

This site is used as a vehicle to share some insights, techniques and tips on two aspects of life. The first is waking from the dream altogether. The second is to live well within the dream. Despite what you have heard waking from the dream is a random thing. Living well within the dream is not random and is entirely up to you.

These days just about everyone and their dog is claiming awakening. But awakening is rare, extremely rare. What passes for awakening seems to be a churning of tired old phrases. The medium may be new, the internet, you tube videos, but essentially its people spitting out clichés.

Life is more than clichés. A lot more…

Aside from that, awakening does not suddenly make one a great teacher. A person still needs a very specific skill set, a high degree of understanding the complexity of a human being and most importantly how the dream functions etc. My advice is to look beyond clichés, look past popular trends, and start to learn to think for yourself.

The same applies to anything written here, you are encouraged to test things out experientially and then decide for yourself. It is your life after all.

I have recently enabled comments again. They are moderated, but most comments are allowed. It is just the ultra-negative ones or abusive comments that are disallowed. If you have a question or comment to make please feel free to do so.

On teachings on awakening, I was much more active a few years ago than I currently am. Strictly speaking I no longer take on students in this regard. I do however correspond via email on spiritual matters. Feel free to contact me and we shall see what comes of it.

I also provide a lot of articles and pointers on this site. Writing seems to be my medium for the awakening stuff. My main interest is in working with people in the form of a therapeutic relationship.

I do maintain a small private practice in psychotherapy /counseling where places are available from time to time. The practice focuses upon getting the most of the life and overcoming life’s difficulties. I have also expanded this recently to include sessions via skype. More energy is going into this field, it’s a return to my roots and doing what I do best, work with people on a 1 to 1 basis.

My view of psychology has changed to be in keeping with awakening. When working with people it’s about finding and removing barriers impeding where they want to be in life. It is a way of letting go, a way of reducing ego.  The answer always lays in the direction of engagement with life rather than withdrawing from life is what I have found. Engagement with life does not mean bloating ego, actually it is the opposite.  The less of ego, the better life goes.

Currently, I am in the final stages of writing a book, entitled Unmasking the Self: No Self at the Heart of Us. The reaction of the few people that have seen what has been written thus far have been positive. The book should be available early in the year of 2013. I occasionally post a little snippet here and there from the book. When the book is closer to release, both the publisher and I will release larger excerpts. So keep an eye out for it.

I do have a twitter account where I post material, tips reasonably regularly, so please join me there if you feel so inclined. I am also on Facebook, though on Facebook I tend not to post about spiritual or psychology stuff as much as I post about places and things I personally find interesting. Again you are most welcome to join me there. There are icons at top of this page that will take you there.

A little about me:

I have multiple degrees in psychology. I have many years’ experience in working with people in a therapeutic environment. In addition I received a few awards for study/work in the field of psychology. I am generally considered pretty intelligent, warm, funny, but at the same time quirky.  I do have a personality and do not try and hide it, even though the personality is not me.

My friends say I am so unusual that I am more like a completely different specifies rather than just being ‘different’. They mean it in a good way I think! They tell me that I am different in the sense that I never stress about things no matter how bad. That’s a reasonably accurate assessment as I don’t seem to suffer from anxiety since that “event” which closer to a “non-event” about 9 years ago.

The other area they notice I differ from most people is how I have preferences. I do have preferences but they are no longer strong ones. Most things in life are like choosing between a strawberry and a ripe cherry, where both are loved.

Anyway that’s a couple of things that my friends have noticed that I thought may be interesting.
When I am not writing, I prefer to spend my free time pc gaming when time and energy permits. I love to cook and have a profound preference to not wash dishes but find I still do. I love gardening, but am gardenless at the moment.

I do currently have several health issues and admittedly look worse for wear. In many ways it’s been a hard life for the majority of it and the body shows it these days.

I am content, and at peace with myself and the world. It is trying to help you engineer this peace within yourself that I hope I can be of some value.