Mark O'Briens Inner questioning Articles
Whenever I hear the word “god’, I get a sudden rush to go and let go of something. I guess that comes back to my Catholic upbringing, where god was this omnipotent being that knew whatever you d
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In Byron Bay, wherever there are seekers, what is heard most about is the desire for enlightenment, to be free. Free of what is rarely articulated. What do I want to be free of? The desire for a new
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Probably more than any other place on earth, at least that I know of, Byron Bay is a place where people come to live out their dreams. What these dreams are will be unique to each person. Some have
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I was thinking about initiation and what that means in our society as it heads into another millenium, and thought I'd speak to some friends, get the low-down, and then put it all together in a cohe
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Re-earthing
Graeme Innis first discovered the powers of burial as a protester in the Daintree Rainforest, Queensland, when he was buried for 3 days. Being in the earth with the ancient trees of the
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Michael Light was for years involved with the Byron Bay local community, and has seen himself as a medium through whom healing can happen. He's worked in the prison system, as a social worker on the
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Letting go. How the f**k is one supposed to let go? So many times over the last few months I’ve heard “Mark, you must let go! You’ll get everything you desire (!) if you’ll just let go!”.
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I have been thinking recently about male sexuality and how it seems to have become one of the unmanageable things in our society. The papers are full of assault, rape, men spiking drinks, child porn
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Believing our own stories.
Where would we be without our stories? In silence perhaps, in boredom? Now and again I find myself lost in stories, stories about this one or that, what is happening and w
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Finding the courage to trust. What does that mean? When we say we trust someone, or we ask to be trusted, what exactly are we saying? Osho spoke often about trust, and of course he managed to say di
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Over the years I have heard and experienced so much around masks. It is even, in a way, old hat to even talk about masks, but their unconscious existence keeps popping up like that single sock.
One
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I remember once in the ashram in Pune I saw the signs promoting the Unworthiness group that was about to happen. No way! I’m not gonna do that. God, it will be a room full of dorks, of people whos
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Byron Bay is such a spiritual supermarket, with all kinds of people offering truth as an experience, a commodity. “Come and sit in truth”, “Discover the truth of your being”, “Know the tru
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