Where does Resistance come from?  Seth Godin says it arises from the “lizard brain,” i.e. the primitive reptilian stem that knows only fight-or-flight and thus resists all attempts by the organism—you and me—to ascend to higher realms. There’s something to this, I think, but not, in my opinion, the way Seth sees it. The source of Resistance, to my mind, is the clash between the ego and the Self. A definition of the ego What is the ego? The ego as I would define it is that identity-center that runs our lives in the here and now, the material dimension.…

We were talking last week about ambition. Judging from the response, the subject struck a chord. Apparently no few of us, if we’re honest, have to admit that, however egotistical or un-PC it may sound, we really do want to excel, to succeed, to make a mark. We want to do something great, and we’re not going to apologize for it. So maybe this week we should balance things out and talk about humility. A scary world out there The artist and the entrepreneur (and all of us on the soul-level) live in an uncertain world. Our trade is in…