Spirituality for Living

I’m changing with time. Time. Interesting notion.
Bushido teaches something I find helpful, metaphorically at least. “I am already dead.” You have already lost the fight, so you can decide what to do with your “failure”. If everything is a failure then what is failure? I am a huge failure. I never sustained gainful employment. I [...]

I found a piece of paper last night. It was something I wrote twenty years ago. Philosophical, reflective and had frustration in it. I saw it and knew what it was, and it was so long ago that I have no real intellectual attachment to it. It surprised me when I read it and started crying. [...]

Most people find living with parents once out of the nest even more frustrating, because they start to treat you like a child again. Both parties change, and yet sometimes expect you to fall back in to old patterns. Do you feel respected currently?
I moved back in out of concern, respect and necessity, but it [...]

In our spiritual darkness class, I like to encourage people to speak freely, but it is not a venue for bashing on anyone or criticizing how they deal with things. I will try to offer only constructive advice and will try to keep it relevant/asked for. Unlike many other spiritual groups, we do not discourage discussion [...]

Usually people sort of blend into the background noise going through the motions of spirituality, but some do stand out.
People tend to form gestalt constructs in my memory. I know that I have remembered someone when they fit one of those complexes, but how people identify themselves is not how I identify them anyway. It [...]

I employ a lot of metaphors and intellectual tools when I try to teach a class.
Thing. The word is of Norse origin. Know what it means? Mystery. The allthing was a meeting of Norse spirituality. They didn’t really have a priesthood.
Luck is also Norse. Luck meant tendency/fate. The Norse had the habit of throwing a [...]

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Do you consider contemplative prayer to be akin to a focused meditation? Not really. It functions sort of differently. Contemplative prayer is a sort of focus, yes, but not necessarily formal. Ever notice that even without direction or making a special effort, you tend to dwell on some things?
Contemplative prayer is more like a context [...]

Rosicrucianism is a pseudo-gnostic school with a lot of obtuse arguments regarding the nature of human progress and spiritual advancement. The Rosicrucian movement can be argued to be a hoax similar to the supposed Illuminati. There isn’t a lot to say about it of any coherence.
What constitutes a hoax? Incoherence. Same as what constitutes a [...]

I just read where the Hubble telescope is now seeing 13.2 billion years back in time to very, very close to origins of the big bang. That is the theory, yes. I favour the ekpyrotic theory myself. Dimensional “membrane” collision as the source of the energy release and the definitive pattern for both gravity and [...]

Friends, did you create yourself? If you did, why did you choose these things and then now feel you can’t accept the conditions?
I create the mess of my self. I create the excellence of my self. I would say you do yes, but not the essence of yourself. I offer that you exist for the [...]

Renewal. It’s the spiritual season, and a benchmark for the world spirit itself. Renewal is a positive thing, no?
Depends on what you are renewing? Exactly. If it isn’t personal it can seem wonderful, but personal renewal… We run from it like our life depends on it, do we not? Who embraces personal renewal in peace?
This [...]

There is a simple way to know when you are centered, balanced. It’s so simple as to be almost always overlooked.
What is love?
Love is like breath, you need it to live. Exactly, but let’s be more blunt. Love is the willingness to be in the presence of anything exactly as it is, but we get [...]

Why don’t you feel a physical storm is the end of the world?
I know storms are usually pretty short lived, and if you wait a bit things will begin to clear. And if humans let psychic storms be, they would be short lived also. But in that case they resist, and instead make themselves short [...]

Let’s do a thought experiment, shall we? Anyone care to share one of their storms? Past or present, even future if you perceive that.
Hmmm, not sure if this is one, but I’m trying to decide if a relationship is worth saving. It is, yes. Dealing with an unstable relationship. It has winds, “hot [...]