Essays & Poetry 

MEDITATION

NONDUAL TANTRA

PLANT MEDICINE

“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”

-Dogen Zenji

How can meditation and psychedelics connect us more deeply to ourselves, others and nature?
How can working with plant medicines such as Ayahuasca and Soma through a nondual contemplative approach allow us to more skillfully prepare for, navigate and integrate these powerful journeys?

Our written works explore an open source approach to meditation, psychedelics, and the Nondual Tantric traditions of Vajrayana Buddhism and Shaiva Shakta Tantra.

This view of awakening is rooted in an appreciation of art & aesthetics and invites us to deepen into the profound sense of freedom and connection that is always and already available.

PROSE: contemplative essays that explore the intersection of wisdom traditions, meditation and plant medicines.

POETRY: creative pieces dedicated to Tantra, mythology, and contemplative practice.

WHERE DO I START?

What Is Sahaja Soma?

Sahaja Soma explores the intersection of meditation and psychedelics. Learn more how we strive to support people on their journey to further awakening. Read More

Tantra & The Householder Path

This article distinguishes the differences between the Renunciate and Householder spiritual paths and how this clarification can help us process some of the challenges in spiritual awakening. Read More

The Promise & Purpose of Meditation

Ultimately, the promise of meditation is to awaken to our true nature and to see clearly what makes us happy and what makes us suffer. Read More

Articles & Blogs

Prose Adrian Baker Prose Adrian Baker

Tantric Maps for Working with Plant Medicine

Awakening is the movement of consciousness becoming conscious of itself. This article examines the path to awakening as described by Dzogchen, Mahamudra, and Shaiva Shakta Tantra and the role that plant medicines can play in it all.

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Seeking The End of Seeking

Samsara is the wheel of desire that keeps us spinning in an endless state of wandering. Only when we become exhausted can the mind finally stop searching for happiness in external appearances and turn inward to rest in its own place.

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Prose Adrian Baker Prose Adrian Baker

The Universe Begins with a Question

In The Vedas, the universe begins when Shiva, who orchestrates the destruction that lays ground for creation, asks himself, “Who am I?” Why is it that most of us are afraid to become intimate with the uncertainty of this question and how can use the practice of meditation to examine this with more ease?

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Balancing Effort & Effortlessness

The ability to hold a paradox is central to the practice of meditation and the journey of awakening. Life is full of paradoxes. However, we overlook them for the simplicity and clarity of dualistic categories. In meditation, one important paradox is the importance of both effort & effortlessness. Neither is right nor wrong in an absolute sense, but the issue is what to emphasize at any given time.

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