Spiritual enlightenment is not personal growth. True knowledge of the soul is different from trying to have a better and easier life. The path to enlightenment and the path to life improvement are not the same.
No one gets to the highest goal possible to humankind by trying to get richer, ... Views: 3118
Monica from Norway wrote to me with a question about what can be done to help someone with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Her husband is from Afghanistan and saw his whole family killed by the Taliban. He is the only survivor and has the full range of symptoms of PTSD, including ... Views: 1972
An Alternative View of an Epidemic
by Ram Giri
Over 120 million people suffer from serious depression worldwide. Most of them live in the richest countries in the world, where, one would think, people have less reason to be depressed. What’s going on?
What the statistics don’t tell us is ... Views: 1346
Is there a better option to psychology? Are there alternatives to psychiatry and taking pills? The following explores how you can not only feel better for a while but free yourself of the very roots of suffering, of repeating the patterns of negative karma.
Ann (not her real name) was a ... Views: 1333
By Ram Giri
We’ve all heard of the predictions of change and we do see an enormous amount and speed of change all around us, from technical innovations to natural calamities and man-made disasters, to political revolutions, to religious fanaticism and more.
The transformation predicted for ... Views: 1234
“What am I?” This is the age old question, the question of questions, asked countless times, and every time some layer of delusion of 'what I am not' disappears.
I ask that question again this morning over breakfast in my garden. What appears as an answer is an intuitive sense of the ... Views: 1222
In the light of 9-11 and the killing of Osama bin Laden we understand the reactions of revenge and of hatred. Their expression was easy enough to see in the outburst of joy at his death in many parts of the US. It made some of us rather uncomfortable.
That we are staging the equivalent of ... Views: 1198
By Ram Giri Braun, Ph.D.
It doesn’t take any effort to fall in love. Suddenly the walls you’ve built around your heart crumble and you experience what you are at your core: alive with the bliss of the heart. Suddenly your ego has evaporated and all you can think of is how to make your beloved ... Views: 1071