Every day people ask wonderful questions about the meaning of life, the significance of truth, the essence of reality, the purpose of...

Student:  Dr. Trausch, you have been conducting meditation training and wilderness meditation retreats for many decades.  How did this...

When democracy mutates to oligarchy, as it will eventually, this centralization of authority, and polarization of power will be met by...

Dear Doctor T, I have had trouble sleeping, and sometimes wake with these kinds of thoughts.  I actually think about this a lot, and I...

Client:  I recently saw an image of my father in a half awake/dream state.  I was shocked, and felt the pain of our relationship when he...

Student:  I am back to the books.  Have a paper to submit Wednesday evening. I am so aware of it being no coincidence that I am getting...

Seminar Member Dear Dr. Trausch, I have two questions regarding coaching and patient responses I was hoping you could answer. First, how...

What is Non-attachment? One of the most misunderstood and cryptic concepts in the search for meaning and abiding inner calm is the...

Futility is the nexus between delusion and reality. Not just acceptance of futility, but appreciation of futility is required.

Happiness is not so much a matter of some positive state or condition, but one of surrendering your expectations and judgements. Cease...

Love is an expansive, inclusive concept. How can anyone feel "love" without cultivating the perspective that all is one?

Other than for the blindly religious, from all angles, life seems to have no meaning. For all philosophers, for all wise beings, life has...

The act of observation is able to create a specific material reality of out an infinite number of unmanifested possibilities. To become...

Over a period of time I have become able to access a portion of the akashic related to the mysteries of existence and more specifically...

Logic: reason, rational, fact, truth, certainty, inclusive, open, broad, obvious, free, unbound, educated, calm, clarity, purity,...

Since mystics, and recently theoretical physicists, know that past and future are not true reality- rather, past, present, and future are...

Know: Strengthen mind: concentration, stay on task; intellect: process, calculate, conjecture, plan, evaluate. Do: Strengthen will: power...

Faith is unfounded belief and should not be denigrated since it is a security for the evolving consciousness of the majority of...

Your mind will continue to distress you until you fully admit and submit to the truth through self study. Then you will know all others...

I have taken a different path (than you) that frees me from the agendas of this dimension (that concern you). I have focused on raising...

A most compelling quality of the mystical state is the overwhelming insights that form and emerge so astonishingly quick from the quieted...

* Read self study literature *Select an inspirational or instructive passage that captures your "growth" attention. *Determine your...

Read! Better, study! This activity will stimulate mentation, which will generate new insights and flights of creative thinking. Recall...

Homo sapiens have conjured seemingly endless creations from the resources of mind and crafted them into myriad shapes, sizes, and...

Enigmatic love grows silently but surely out of your dedicated exercises of virtue. Any virtue. As you engage integrity- dedicated...

Rather than trying to convince or argue with people who hold unreasonable or even delusional positions, seek to discern and explain the...

Q: As I grow, I feel more distant from people…more adrift in my own consciousness? A: Here is the problem. You change, you grow… but the...

Vice: undisciplined self indulgence/ excess. No matter how much effort even a serious seeker exercises in trading off vices for virtue,...

If the sure thing is that death will come, as it has to all species of life without exception, why not look into it, move toward it, and...

Answers to the mysteries of existence are not available at the level of consciousness of most human beings. Much like an otherwise...

Research* demonstrates that people who seek to find and construct “facts” in support of their preexisting opinions and biases** do not...

Unless you are finally able to see the violations your enemy commits upon you from a more expanded perspective, you will not be able to...

When you encounter a great insight, or truth, or someone who radiates some charismatic quality, you actually experience or feel the glow!...

Entertaining feelings of remorse and guilt for blameworthy dispositions and behavior is nonsensical and ill-willed! Such behavior only...

Loneliness is a psychological pandemic having an influence on human living ranging from sadness to suicide. Why should this be so? The...

When you offer me attractive choices, or more suggestions, that are for my benefit or otherwise pleasing, your motives are mixed. It...

I see that both young and old do disturbing and damaging things to themselves and others in pursuit of adventure, excitement, pleasure,...

Do you argue to learn? Or to win? Objectivist? Or Relativist? Argue to win is at its base, investment in protecting deeply engrained...

- Boredom is the doorway to freedom - Ironically, healing takes place within the full acceptance of the malady. - Make...

Q: If abiding happiness born of deep meditation is so good and real, why do people settle for the brief and cheap pleasures of life? A:...

If you seek a state of enduring joy to attain clarity of the mind and purity of heart.... the journey alone will present you with the...

Wise people realize that emotional reactions may influence too much of their lives. They should know, also, that learning and exercising...

Abiding joy is a cumulative activity and becomes increasingly stable as an individual soul, a serious and dedicated seeker, is able to...

In order to enhance your intuitive aptitude, begin to pay attention to people and events. People: a person’s presentation- size, shape,...

When your fate sends you trouble- a change of fortune, a negative turn of events, an injustice, a lost cause- immediately become alert,...

Spiritual heights, even spiritual progress, cannot be sustained without adverse consequences if spiritual pursuits- literature, practice-...

Turn prayer and belief into self fulfilling prophecy by the power of intention. If honoring the Truth frees you from everything, how does...

What to do when there is no hope: -of avoiding pain and suffering -of a safe existence -of planetary survival -of overcoming death...