As we embark on the spiritual path intentionally we commonly find ourselves out of step with our former friends. We imagine that we must be a true friend and not abandon them yet they have neither support nor appreciation for my new-found spirituality. Is this misguided loyalty?
Consciousness is the source of all matter. Matter evolves in order to express its latent consciousness but matter isn’t the source of consciousness. Most of what occupies our daily life is the invisible world of our thoughts and feelings. Being ourselves manifestations of consciousness why wouldn’t we imagine beings of disincarnate consciousness. As our lives revolve around the heaven of … Read More
Today (as of publication, June 20, 2024) is the longest day of sunlight in the northern hemisphere. Soon the warm to hot days of summer will appear in July, August, and perhaps even September. Will we remember the ice-cold days of winter and the great blizzards that have blanketed us indoors for days at a time? Or, will we just … Read More
Since ancient times the solstices and equinoxes have been celebrated by people around the world. Why? In our urbanized lifestyles wherein we often cannot see the stars, the moon and even the sun, and where nature is replaced by steel and concrete, we might ask ourselves this question: why all the buzz around the Solstices (and Equinoxes)? Why the buzz around a new moon … Read More
I just finished reading a book recommended to me by a friend: The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection by Michael Singer. Michael Singer describes himself as a disciple of Paramhansa Yogananda and hints that he visited Ananda Village twice long ago, but he keeps both of these facts at a distance in his book. Living on his own with no … Read More
Jean-Paul Sartre, the nihilist-existentialist author wrote “In this world that bleeds, all joy is obscene.” That’s a grim condemnation of the quest for happiness which is all but universal in human consciousness. Sartre and others like him did, however, experience the absurd obscenity of the madness of two world wars in the first half of the twentieth century and it’s not difficult to understand … Read More
How often have we heard Jesus’ words and how little do we live them. But what does it mean to love your enemies and do good to those who spite you? I saw a social media posting that declared that these words of Jesus were out of date. That post was from a Christian, BTW! Jesus was unfairly put to … Read More