About Tom Stine

Tom Stine dot com has as its primary focus the never ending journey of awakening to our true nature as pure consciousness. By looking at the related topics of awakening, consciousness and what I like to call “practical spirituality,” I hope to give you a taste of what I have experienced, and continue to experience, as I travel on this journey. A journey that doesn’t really exist, but nonetheless feels like a journey most of the time

While the term spirituality may be familiar to most people, the term consciousness and the phrase “practical spirituality” may not. Consciousness is a topic I will explore in detail in my various articles, but for now you can think of it as synonymous with awareness, awakeness, beingness, and even the divine. I find that consciousness is the term that works best for me, for are we not all conscious?

I used to refer to practical spirituality as enlightened personal growth, but that phrase, however, is a bit of an oxymoron. As you will see in the articles on this site, I’m of the school of spiritual thought that contends that there is no separate self, no “you” and no “me.” Thus, there is no person in personal, and hence no personal growth, and so there really can’t be such a thing as enlightened personal growth. So why use the term? Because there are so many blogs and websites devoted to helping the “person” grow, and so much of it is a mish-mash of feel-good spirituality and ego stroking, that I feel it important to bring a different perspective to the popular arenas of personal growth and personal development. I will let you be the judge of how “enlightened” this perspective is.

I think it goes without saying that TomStine.com is the website of Tom Stine. Which naturally begs the question: who am I? Let’s see if I can illuminate you on a few things about me:

• I help spiritual people and spiritual seekers. I write about spirituality, and I am a spiritual life coach and teacher. As you can see, my main interest is in teaching and writing about spirituality and the journey of awakening that we are all undertaking, whether we know it or not, and how this impacts our lives as seemingly separate human beings.
• Life Coach for Spiritual People and users of the Sedona Method. I work with many different techniques to help my clients drop all limitations, from the more human to the greatest limitation of all: their sense of being a separate individual.
• Long-time spiritual enthusiast and former spiritual seeker (I gave up seeking in favor of finding). My journey began with the usual mish-mash of new age spiritualism, progressed to 10 years of using and studying A Course in Miracles, to finally working with teachings of Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj and Adyashanti.
• A lover of mountains, big cities, travel and airplanes.
• Long-time resident of the Missouri Ozarks, yet a bit too cosmopolitan for my own good. It has taken me a number of years to learn to love the Ozarks, its wonderful people and lifestyle. My family has been living here for over 100 years, and I’ve finally understood why they stayed.
• Awake consciousness enjoying itself as a human being that is experiencing the ups and downs of spiritual awakening. A complete contradiction that has no simple explanation (or resolution).

And to help you get to know me a bit better, here is a video I produced on why I write about spirituality:

If you want to know more, shoot me a question, or leave a comment on an article, or read some more articles. I’m always happy to share more about myself.

And to read what others are saying about me, you can visit my testimonials page.