Train with Me

Share The Awakening Coaching Training is divided into several levels. Awakening Coaching Basic Skills is always the place to start. If you are already trained as a coach, psychotherapist, counselor or consultant, you will learn skills that you can integrate immediately into your practice, starting today. If you want to develop a new career to [...]

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Who am I?

Share Who Am I? On the surface, we all have our stories.  We were all born somewhere, we have our profession and family, our accomplishments and our defeats. This question can also go much deeper, if we are willing to inquire. It  is actually the essence of everything on this site, in my books and [...]

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One-on-One

Share   I work with a few select private clients at any time. The process is extremely deep, and suitable for clients willing to question their values and beliefs in a fundamental way, and to reboot their lives. The process is extremely client-centered, which means that you define the objectives, you recognize the obstacles and [...]

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The Art of Unmanifesting

Share *** *** One of the turning points of my life happened more than 20 years ago, when I went to sit with an almost unknown spiritual teacher and writer. There were just a few people gathered together meeting with her. This was the late 80’s, when “manifesting” was the latest greatest thing. So somebody [...]

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Is It True?

Share When you notice yourself needing to be right, When you notice your mind is strongly attached to any conclusion, Stop and ask yourself, “is it true?” Do I really know this? Is this an absolute, objective, unchanging fact? Would every sane person in the world agree that it is so? Or is it simply [...]

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Being a Part of the Solution

Share … … My 19 year old son  Abhi Ardagh just sent me a paper to look over that he’d written for a class at San Francisco State University. The paper was about whether or not there may be life on other planets. He went into a fairly well-researched account of the various attempts that [...]

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Overcoming Fear of Success

Share … Consider the sad and ominous story of JasonRussell. His name may have already flashed past you by now, in the whirlwind of current events. So let me remind you: Along with three of his buddies, Jason created the film Kony 2012, which attracted more than 80 million hits on Youtube a few weeks [...]

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Honest Marketing

Share The very fact that you’re reading this article right now, on “The Translucent View,” rather than scanning YouTube for videos of kittens, or the latest round of mud-slinging by GOP candidates, means that you probably care. You’d probably love to make a difference to the world. You’re probably aware of the enormous and growing [...]

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Wind in Your Sails

Share I wonder if you’ve ever had the experience that you had a really grade-A, fantastic, unbeatable idea? Maybe it was the best screenplay ever. Period. Maybe you just got the download for the greatest novel of the century, while you were laying in the bathtub. Perhaps you just figured out a completely new way [...]

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Big Event

Share In honor of Valentine’s Day next week, here is a passage about sex from my book The Translucent Revolution. All sex, in fact all life everywhere, is about the meeting of masculine and feminine energy, the meeting of consciousness and light. This does not mean that men always represent the masculine, or that women [...]

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Discover Your Unique Gift

Share We all know that when there’s a crime somewhere, the police come as quickly as possible to take fingerprints. If they can get a good print off a door handle or a glass or something, computers can compare this print to every fingerprint that’s ever been taken, both from people alive and dead, to [...]

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Love Deeply

Share We’re coming up on Valentine’s Day, which is a time when all of us give a little extra nurturing to intimate relationship. If you’ve been married for 40 years, this might be a time to express your gratitude for all that’s been shared. If you’re newly together, this is the season to commit more [...]

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The First Miracle: Everything Changes

Share Here is a passage from my book The Translucent Revolution. People who live translucently enter into an evolutionary process of feeling more and more, while becoming less and less reactive. They can feel without a story, without justifications. Usually, we need to say: “I am angry because of what so-and-so did.” Most of our [...]

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