By Adam J. Pearson (2021) A. Introduction: Demystifying and Clarifying an Essential Term of Contemporary Discourse In the current political climate, both people on the right and people on the left are increasingly referring to each other as Fascists. Ironically, however, despite their well-meaning intentions, many people tend to use the term so loosely that…
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Six Obstacles to Ceaselessly Abiding in the Feeling of Being
By Adam J. Pearson Introduction “There will be periods of frustration; there will be periods of doubt. Your worldly involvements would hamper your Sadhana (practice) and an atmosphere of defeat would prevail. But, come what may, just throw everything aside, don’t bother about anything and continue your abidance in the ‘I am’ with all earnestness….
Black Lives Matter and “All Lives Matter”
By Adam J. Pearson Why do people get offended when white people say “all lives matter” in response to “black lives matter”? For very clear and good reasons. Of course all lives matter, we might be inclined to say, or rather, of course it would be great all lives were treated as if they equally mattered….
The Integral ‘Now’: Towards an Integration Of Einstein’s Relative Simultaneity and Eckhart Tolle’s Eternal Present
By Adam J. Pearson Introduction – Integral Thinking These days, I’ve been passionately interested in making my worldview as integral as possible. By this, I mean taking all of the partial truths I have learned from all of the different perspectives, models, and disciplines of knowledge that I’ve studied and connecting what could otherwise be ‘fragmentary’ or ‘compartmentalized’ understandings together into…
The Prison and the Key: Why I Write About Shame
By Adam J. Pearson The Wisdom of Eamonn Perkins Eamonn Perkins is a wise, humble and tremendously compassionate teacher from Ireland who spends much of his time working with addicts and prisoners. He’s so low-key that, as of this writing, he doesn’t even have a website. In a 2014 interview, Eamonn said something brilliantly concise and and equally incisive: “If you…
Release the Past to Free the Present: Another Meaning of Forgiveness
By Adam J. Pearson Introduction In “Forgive and Be Free: The Liberating Power of Forgiveness,” I introduced the practice of forgiveness and its tremendous ability to transform our lives and give us a greater sense of inner freedom. At the end of that article, I emphasized an encouraging feature of forgiveness, namely that: I only have to choose to forgive once and…
Turning Pain into Power: Overcoming Experiences and Transcending the Role of the Victim
By Adam J. Pearson Earlier today, I was talking to a friend who was facing some tough emotional challenges. These challenges revolved around feeling like she was caught in the “role of the victim.” She asked me an excellent question that is worth considering in some detail, namely, “how do you overcome something painful that happened…
