Spirituality for Living

Have any of you ever had a day when you had no impulse to do anything at all that day? Have any of you had a day where you had no impulse to act?
Are you saying that a day spent doing nothing is a day well spent? Yes, and I’m also saying that when you [...]

The topic is productivity. We tend to be very concerned with productivity, don’t we? Even if you aren’t employed? It’s a convoluted idea, this productivity.
Have any of you spent a day doing literally nothing ever? Everything gets done always, but no one needs to do it. That’s the issue with productivity. As we live our [...]

A right level of productivity is measured by having a good feeling of engagement in life. An instinctive sense of “fullness” and a sense of continued willingness to engage. Even rejecting a metaphysical explanation, the body has an awareness of whether or not it’s operating at its full capacity.
I’m thinking of times when I want [...]

What is the purpose of cognition?
It’s properly subordinate to perception, and perception is structured well before even your basic individual gene sequencing happens. It‘s structured at a quantum level. At the range of the “PSI” factor, and I mean PSI factor in the original quantum mechanical sense. The tendency of any set of bodies to [...]

We are creative and expressive beings, living paradoxes if you will. I live by an old eastern saying, “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. This relates very much to productivity, I feel. Anyone see how?
Perhaps let’s examine the precept a portion at a time. It is very old. First the statement that nothing is true [...]

Productivity is a big concern in the real world, is it not? Have any of you had a day where you did absolutely nothing? Really? Tell me how this was possible?
Define “doing nothing”? Literally nothing. Think nothing. Do nothing. Not change in any way.
Literally nothing? Not since between incarnations. I would debate even the do [...]

I lost my father tragically, and his spirit was very intense and there in the house a long time. In the fullness of a life, the course of a life fully lived, the body fails not from a loss of energy, but from having grown in energy beyond the bodies capacity to house. So it [...]

I will go into a related phenomenon, non human haunting. First off, they aren’t haunting. There are states of being that parallel incarnation without assuming a material state, but I’m going into non-human haunting because the average person does relate them.
Some are merely psychic parasites looking for whatever energy they can grub onto. Some are [...]

Shall I go into what consciousness for a haunting ghost is like?
They transition into a “sleep like” state as we do while alive, but all of their energy is now expressed in this artifact of their formally organic mind. It becomes very vivid, and often times at least semi-lucid. This is why some ghosts can [...]

I’m thinking of an experience I had, and wondering if it was a haunting of some sort. I was doing a consult job, and staying at a hotel. I brought a lot of work back to the hotel: calculator, medical records. I had everything on a table. Copious amounts of tape running from the calculator. [...]

I’m going to try to bring hauntings and related spirit world phenomena down to earth as much as possible. Hope I will succeed.
First off, everyone know what the supposed cause of human thought or consciousness is? Scientifically, consciousness is a product of electrochemical processes in the brain induced by stimuli that are mostly [...]

I have laughed in intense horror. I have laughed in incredible shame and pain. I came to this point because in my youth I spent a great deal of time in tears. I came to grieve so deeply that I could not grieve any further. I could not see my grief as real.
I would not [...]

Guided meditation for navigating mercury retrograde recorded on Reflection Island in Second Life.
A planet is described as retrograde when it appears to be moving backwards through the zodiac. Mercury retrograde provides the opportunity to adjust our thoughts, attitudes and decisions and adjust our new direction. Mecury is thought and communication. Mercury retrograde is communication restarting [...]

Plato attributes the rise of misanthropy (hatred for humanity) first to trust of humanity. An inclination in the individual to see all human beings as entirely virtuous. Then as their faith in humanity proves untenable, they developed first the disconnection, then an active avoidance of human community. In a sense, this faith is sloth is [...]

I intend to explore sloth as a facet of human nature, as well as its impact and other related issues. Sloth is defined as a disinclination toward doing any work, and it was and is still a recurrent phase in human behaviour, and one that society in general is still conditioned to believe is an [...]