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The initial promises of Awakening speak to us of perfect happiness, peace, and an true and complete understanding of Life. These articles touch at portions of our lives where we are strongly stagnant. They serve as friendly reminders that we are lost in a strange and sometimes terrible dream, and that by waking up, we can each discover the marvelous wonder surrounding us in each moment.

The message of the dream is that we are all stuck in lives which deliver us through ups and downs, joys and horrors, happiness and despair. But the promise of Awakening is that by waking up, we can fully encounter life, discover our true nature, and find ourselves in a world that has sometimes been described as ‘nirvana’ or ‘heaven’. This place is right here.

Incidentally, for those of you who have delved into the Deeper Understanding articles already, or otherwise have a basic understanding of non-dualism, you’ll find these articles to be full of dualistic references — this is done simply to make sense to the dualistic mindset of many readers.

What This Site is All About — A little picture gives us an idea about what all this non-dualism stuff is pointing at.

The Coyote — A special teacher delivers a reminder about compassion and judgement.

Considering Change – In a world that is ever-changing, how can we do anything but be constantly amazed?

Why Do We Get Angry With People? — The source of our anger is an unexamined belief . . .

Are Chakras Real? – There are so many spiritual ideas presented to us. How do we sort through them?

The Meaning of Life – All you need to know.

Acting For Peace — How to truly become a peace activist.

Self Improvement and Awakening — How can we ever make our life better if we don’t affect some positive change? This seems like a straight-forward question, but it’s actually the desire for change that’s creating all our problems . . .

My Wife Goes to Weddings Wearing Only Her Bra — Examining the rules we live by.

A Smiling Revolution – By Rebecca Whitman. A perfect way to start your day (and live your life).

Let’s Get Naked! — Taking off our emotional clothes can be pretty exciting. . .

There and Back Again, Part One – An introduction to a series in which I point to our natural, ‘wild’ nature.

There and Back Again, Part Two — A glimpse of who you really are, and how not to find yourself.

There and Back Again, Part Three – Venturing into the woods to discover our Wild Self.

There and Back Again, Part Four — Coming back to civilization. Can we retain our wild nature and still function in society?

A Total Lack of Perspective – Often we think the solution to our problems lies in gaining a new perspective. But the real magic lies in having no perspective at all . . .

Encountering The Treasures of Life – There is so much wonder we pass by as we rush about in life . . .

Humility – What our stance on humility tells us about our idea of self.

PG-13 Warnings — Language. Should we be warned?

Doing Dishes — The secret to Living with a capital ‘L’.

Becoming Stress Free – Stress. Yuck. Make it go away!

How the World Really Works – Helping us to see that the world is more about our assumptions than any ‘physical reality’.

The Most Important Decision You’ve Never Made – Your model of reality determines the happiness of your life. Which one are you using?

Become Happy With Where You Are – What truly creates happiness in our lives.

What Is Non-Dualism? – Enlightenment de-mystified.

Duelism — We think we’re being constructive about life, but all we’re really doing is waging a constant battle. Here’s how to quit the fighting.

Happily Ever After – Our storybook myth actually causes us a lot of trouble . . .

Spending Your Life Energy– How the Past, Future, and Distraction make us bankrupt in life.

Self-Defeating Desires – How our many desires work against each other to create a lack of abundance.

Wanting Life to Be a Certain Way — If we admit that we don’t know better than life, we might live a little differently.

Changing How We Desire — Desire itself isn’t the problem — it’s the way we desire which causes frustration.

Dissecting Your Breakfast Cereal — How understanding what we eat for breakfast can be the answer to world peace.

Getting Thrown Off A Horse — Being in the presence of horses gives us a perfect example of how to truly Live Life.

This Boring, Miraculous World — How we make the world boring, and how to make it exciting again.

Awakening and Enlightenment, A Beginner’s Handbook, Part One – Part one in a series of articles designed to make you obnoxiously, deliriously happy.

Enlightenment Handbook, Part Two — Part two explores what non-dualism is pointing toward.

Enlightenment Handbook, Part Three — Part three gets us familiar with dualism, and helps us to recognize our own dualistic thought-patterns.

Enlightenment Handbook, Part Four — Part four. See the world as it is, or chop it up into little bits.

Enlightenment Handbook, Part Five — The final installment of the Enlightenment Handbook.

Everything You Hear About Enlightenment is a Lie! — How do you explain something when everything you say about it is equally true and untrue?

A Little Bit of Danger – How our over-developed sense of self-preservation can get in the way of Really Living.

You Have Superpowers! – How to develop superhuman powers without even trying.

A Summer in the Woods – Kenton’s summer of subsistence living in the woods of northern Wisconsin brought him to some powerful realizations — here’s how.

You Are Perfect — When we cease to see ourselves as someone in need of constant improvement, we can really get into the juiciness of life.

What’s Really Going on in Our Minds – A moment’s glimpse into how much effort our minds are usually engaged in.

Strange Sounds in the Woods — Mysteries are wonderful, but they can prevent us from really sipping the nectar of Life.

Reverend Kenton – Am I really a Reverend, or just for pretend? Is your doctor really a doctor, or is she just pretending? The answer might surprise you . . .

A Christian Site’s Questions To The Buddha – A question-and-answer session which helps us to understand the intricacies of dualistic thought.

What We Really Want – In which the author has the audacity to tell us what we really should be doing with our lives.

Three Mountains – An old Zen saying becomes a guidepost for watching our own transformation to Awakening.

A No-Nonsense Guide to Meditation – A simple guide to Awareness.

Living to Be Four Hundred Years Old – Time isn’t quite what we think it is . . .

Peanuts and Ultimate Reality — Is God a peanut?

The Enlightenment Test — Answer these six simple questions to find out if you are an enlightened master!

The Flesh-to-Steel Ratio — A little perspective on the connectedness of all things.

$29.95 For the Deal of a Lifetime! — Why are we wearing this big, heavy, uncomfortable thing called ‘Me’?

Valentine’s Day and Loving Awareness — Paying attention to our loved ones is the best gift!

Eating Good Food – A little trick to aid in healthier eating habits.

Talking About Problems – Why do we talk about our problems all the time?

On Being Ill– How being sick teaches us about Living.

Outline of a Spiritual Journey Toward Enlightenment — What a journey toward enlightenment might look like.

Identity Games – Fun games and mind exercises to help us learn what something is and what it isn’t.

True Happiness and Lost Dogs – The story of our lost dog, the influence of positive thinking, and a happy ending.

The Intention-Manifestation Model – How we create our lives with our thoughts.

The Standard Dualistic Model – A description of the guidelines we use to form our lives.

Antagonistic Aphorisms – Cute little sayings that can ruin our lives.

What Is Death? – A look at what we mean when we say someone ‘dies’.

Shaping Bonsai Trees — Do we shape the bonsai tree or does it shape us? A look at our beliefs regarding ego and our will.

Marijauna and Controlling Your Life – Is controlling our life the best way to control our lives? And a little message about not doing drugs. Or television.

Objective Reality? — Objective? Subjective? What’s the difference?

Role-Playing Firefly, or Who Am I, Anyway? – How we create suffering by trying to live up to a certain idea of ‘me’.

These Beautiful Clouds — Clouds are perfect just as they are, and so are you.

Atop A Mayan Ruin – We usually make our life decisions by listening to the input from our senses. But are we really listening, or just making up what we want to hear?

A Recipe For Awakening – An adaptable recipe for ‘waking up’ that might just work for you.

A Week Of My Life — The ability to see the present moment gives life a whole new flavor.