Spirituality for Living

Thinking gets you where you are and often gets you stuck and keeps you there. Do your passions arise from thinking?
Can you be angry and out of control and be aware that you are angry and out of control? If you are truly aware, then are you out of control? We are alive first, thinking [...]

The secret of conflict is that there is no conflict. We perceive ourselves to be in opposition. But the one who opposes you, do they oppose “you”? Or has their way run afoul of yours? They seek something in opposition.
Imagine an auto accident …is nothing about opposition, just nature interacting with nature. And adaptation is [...]

What is the form of thought? Now that is interesting. Form is coherent or “encoded” memory. Energy I mean, and memory. The energy of any given object is perceptible to us. The memory and the energy of the object are not separate, but thought seems more nebulous than sense data, less clear. It’s actually not.
It’s [...]

Inner deaths. Those little changes that represent a growth period, but do end a facet of your existence. When it feels like an iron door has slammed shut, but was it really “abandon all hope ye who enter here”? For me it was more of an entering into the world, and in a way more [...]

Certainty, as most people espouse it is fear based, but clarity is not paranoia and we cannot create clarity. We can only see clearly, and that is possible partially in those moments of surrender. We are not the way of the world, the way of the world is in us. When we see that unity, that [...]

Find what you want. Then acting on that what would you do? Then do that.
Do you wonder what else you should do? Wondering like that is doubt. Doubt is the opposite of hope. Hope guides, doubt bars the way. Look at it from a ‘what can I do right now’ point of view, even if [...]

Satanism is a descriptor some people have applied to other beliefs versus a belief itself? It has evolved and some have accepted the related ideas. Basic teachings of Satanism are:

Ecstatic practices
Self acceptance
Embracing both the darkness and the light in life

The most public Satanic church is in fact almost atheistic. It acknowledges human need for religion [...]

The idea of the matriarchal society is strong in a lot of cultures. Matriarchy by spiritual and not military leadership and the two coexisting. In the Yezidi culture (the non Islamic Kurds), women are not made to wear veils by anything but law as supposedly Satanist as they are. As the Ophistes were seen, they [...]

People speak of good choices and bad choices, and do everyone a disservice by doing so. There are only wise choices and unwise choices in my experience. Good can arise from an unwise choice anyway, and harm can arise from a wise choice. When guided by that inner spirit, it’s a certainty. If that inner [...]

If you are denying some aspect of yourself and behaving for a reason that has no root in your heart, are you burned out yet? Tired yet? Self denial isn’t peace. Self conflict isn’t sanity.
Sometimes we must compromise to survive? Ah, and even compromise can be internally motivated. You can desire to accommodate another. That [...]

Finding peace. We all try to do it. It is a long standing objective in philosophy and religion both, if not the oldest. Yet we seem to have a haphazard grasp of it at best. A big part of this is we seek it elsewhere. It’s forever elsewhere. Peace on earth, peace with other nations, [...]

Sometimes it is just good to be angry, or cry without having to stop because you are suppose not to? Yes. We burn the bridge before we even cross it. We want peace, but won’t allow ourselves to be at peace with what disturbs us.
When you seek to deny anything about you, you make yourself [...]

I saw a movie called ‘The Soldier Who Declared Peace’, and it showed that although a soldier, he did not have to fight and kill to get people to his way of being. Sun-Tzu, perhaps histories most famous military mind, said that when a conflict gets to armed confrontation it’s already failed. Sun-Tzu taught that [...]

Is acting out of character depression? Depression precedes acting out of character. It’s the natural decay of the minds faculties from a mass of inhibitory tensions. It is living a life of “thou shalt not” without actually understanding why, or managing that “inner demon” so that it doesn’t smash it’s prison, your mind. It’s a [...]

When you understand anger you begin to discover you don’t really have to control it. It arises like it does from the concept of control, you channel it. You own your anger by putting an end to objectifying your anger that is either making it a dirty object to bury it in your mind, or [...]

Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from 2008, here’s a few of the top posts that you may want to check out:

Secret of Conflict
Posted August 2008 in Shadow
The secret of conflict is that there is no conflict. We perceive ourselves to be in opposition. But the one who [...]

I’ve heard you say “in the grip of some spiritual force” and then say “they are inside you”. I wanted to ask, do you ever give props to a power outside of us? Actually, yes I do, if I understand your question right.  Respect you mean?
I mean, yes, the right to occupy your mind, power to [...]

Last month when I asked you why my synchronicities were happening at a faster rate, you explained that the ‘knots’ were being untied? Yes, synchronicities aren’t “only human”. It’s a stress letdown of the Gaia consciousness, and every couple of millennia it needs to reset. It is purging our input, the old stagnant stuff, and [...]

When Jesus was talking about the fires of Gehenna, he was talking about the ways of cities, and he was not a city dweller himself preferring to live much as his predecessor John the Baptist did. Even in that day, the mind state associated with cities was “as the garbage pit”. Our cities have gotten [...]

I find it funny how dual peoples minds are. They think love is opposed to hate, that being friendly is different from being aggressive. It differs in quality from love certainly, but in my experience it’s not that simple. We move in the world, in the situations we find ourselves in, in relationship to other [...]