The Question I was curious to find out your thoughts on this…two days ago while I asleep I dreamed of a spiritual examination. I was told in the dream by one of the examiners that I have an attachment. I am interested to find a way to get the attachment to leave. This attachment is not really affecting me too… read more →
The Question I recently read a book on the topic of enlightenment and its attainment. The book covered Advaita Vendata and professed it to be the only true path. The author said many modern teachers are appealing to the Western mind because of our lack of attention, want it now attitude. He was even critical of Ramana Maharshi and Niagargadatta… read more →
The Question I am changing so much in a short period of time!!! I am reading a little bit of your book every night…the concept of negative pleasure…and that of death as master resonate especially with me… I recall when you said in a lecture that only if one is entirely present one can truly face reality – as I… read more →
The Question Please share a view on the subject of hallucinogens with me. I feel all of my previous experiences were immature and self indulgent when experimenting with them. Is their use a path to a positive altered awareness or just another modern day attempt at a shortcut to false enlightenment? Abdi Answers All experiences can be of value or… read more →
The Question Intention is one of those buzz words that seems to be coming up again and again for me lately. Whether encountering the idea of intention in the New Age-y manifestation vein, through my dreams or simply by recognizing intention when parsing my own or other peoples motives behind the words or actions shared in day to day life.… read more →
The Question I don’t know where to start so I will get to the point. My whole life there has been this barrier where I can not go past a certain point in improving my life, once I reach a level of improvement everything just crumbles. I have always known that there was something at work. I decided to try… read more →
The Question I know you have worked with Jonas Elrod from the movie Wake Up. I can’t see these things like he can, but I can see spirits, angels, and demons, with my “minds eye” with meditation and without meditation. I can sense them in other ways as well. I am a firm believer in God, and these spiritual realms.… read more →
The Question I am currently 38 years old and in my late teens and early 20s I felt an intense spiritual connection to the universe. During meditation practice, I had intense mystical experiences. My body would be filled with amazing vibrations, I would have visions, I had an out of body experience, and I experienced physical healing. An example of… read more →
The Question What happens to our soul after we die? Abdi Answers Interesting question. What ever reply I give you will be some intellectual exercise that will no more quench your thirst than drinking salt water. More interesting question: who wants to know and why? Even more interesting question: what is happening to our soul right now or before we… read more →
The Question Thank you for the podcast on loss. Your courage and clear voice is a balm and a grounding. I look around and feel life is seeping its lesson into every crevice of the soul… sculpting us. We are river beds, we are smooth stones and we are the current. No one is without this right now… gentle or… read more →
The Question I want to ask you something, I am in a quandary about two paradoxical spiritual teachings that I am constantly faced with, and I am not sure if it is either or, of and and both. Like you, I am not into the new age wishy washy stuff and realize how the work needs to be done, how… read more →
