Intuitive Insights

 Deep down in the belly of your mind's eye is a magical place. A special spot just for you. A space all your own, filled with magic, possibility and wonder. Have you been there? Do you want to go?  Our minds are wonderful at creating things. Our imagination is one of the modifications of the mind in yoga we call it Vikalpa. According to the Patanjali yoga sutras, the modifications of the mind can be either pain causing or non pain causing. Therefore our imaginations can bring us joy or suffering.  Suffering caused by imagination would be fear, worry. How many times have you come up with elaborate scenarios, worked yourself into a tissy and not of it, not one thing you can point to as true. But you feel it as 100% real.  Joy caused by imagination could be similar, creating a similar scenario, but this time with outcomes that light you up, make you happy, bring joy.  Imagination is transient. But we can use our imagination to cultivate a beautiful space - a secret space - where we ar

The idea that we are all just living in a matrix is currently popular but now necessarily new. From ancient yogis who use the phrase "be of the world but not in it" to the movie with Keanu Reeves flying through the air and haunted by which pill to take, to the most recent  - simulation theory - the idea that there is more that the tangible to experience in our lives had been a part of human experience for eons.  What the matrix is, has been debated and there are a million philosophies, religions and ideas of how to move through it.