Numinous Nonsense

Precision Change

Precision Change, is a new blog that I’m contributing to that is, about technologies of transformation, from personal productivity to personal power, mastery to meditation, self-development to self-transcendence. Unlike other blog sites that recycle tired old aphorisms and over-generalizations, we will focus on precise, practical ways to bring about change using the richest and deepest models available, [...]

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Mastery … Takes Time Y’all

My buddy Duff made a great point, echoing someone in the personal development blog community, about mastery taking something like 10,000 hours of dedicated practice. From his blog: A great article was published today on LifeClever about the oft mentioned claim that mastery of something takes about 10,000 hours of practice. From what I’ve seen, this [...]

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Bright Young Hommie

My good buddy, and co-worker Duff McDuffee, is featured on Thrilling Heroics (a cool looking Gen Y focused leadership/business blog) in an interview entitled Bright Young Minds. The interview is actually quite good, and it provides a lot of clarity into Falling Fruit’s mission and vision, and why we are trying to be part of the [...]

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Responsibility and Development

Daniel Rizzuto, on his blog Evolutionary Mind, shares an interesting debate that he has been having with Zen teacher Brad Warner. The argument centers around personal responsibility and its role in public teaching and writing. From Daniel’s blog: Brad’s argument centers on his claim that everyone is completely responsible for their own [...]

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Research Epiphany

While I was doing research today for a big term paper I had a small epiphany. I say small, because it seemed so obvious after the fact. Somehow though that seems to be the nature of most important insights. They appear so obvious after you realize them, but they’re still very real [...]

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Energy

One of the primary components to mastery, especially with regards to spiritual mastery, is having sufficient energy. Not energy in the WuuWuu New Age sense so much, but rather the vital energy that you can feel right now. Are you awake, alert, and does your body feel alive? That’s the kind of [...]

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