by Geoff Barkley | Nov 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mental Chaos? It’s hard to know what life was really like for people in the past—and perhaps even harder to imagine what their innerlives were like. The reason I wonder about this is that people back then were exposed to far less stimulation than we are today. As...
by Geoff Barkley | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
I’ve engaged in awareness practices practically my whole life. It’s something that has been intentional and from these literal ‘sittings’ over time, I’ve developed a great deal of insight (inner sight) into my psychological make-up. I now understand my ‘conditioning’...
by Geoff Barkley | Oct 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Mukta Center derives its name from the Sanskrit word Mukta, which means freedom, loosening, and opening. Of these meanings, I resonate most deeply with loosening and opening—they feel so fitting for the human journey. In our lives, we can become locked in to...
by Geoff Barkley | Oct 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Throughout the ages, both philosophy and spirituality have returned to one profound insight — that within us lies a core essence that is whole and complete in itself. This is being. It does not strive, it does not compete; it simply is. It’s the quiet stillness...
by Geoff Barkley | Oct 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Natural Emotion: The Flow of Awareness Through Feeling We tend to divide emotions into good and bad, wanted and unwanted — as if the movement of life within us must always be managed or improved. Yet in truth, emotion is simply energy in motion — a natural and...
