Spirituality for Living

With any facet of life, in the light of awareness there is a mirror image. For every truth, an equal and opposite truth. We often revile the negative as destructive. We say that is the opposite of what we want, when in fact it’s a mirror image of the thing desired. This is why attachment [...]

For any light you have a shadow. The truth of any spirit is found not in the object of the senses nor its opposite, but in between. But often we see only what we choose to. We declare one small facet of reality ‘truth’, and refuse to see it very deeply. People refuse to see [...]

Dissonance, as in different notes or tones conflicting is the concept. Spirituality is often compared to music metaphorically, but in many ways it’s not strictly metaphor. Many people speak of spiritual presence as being like a voice or sound and we each of us contribute to this. We each make more of an impact on [...]

Here is an example of negative self judgement: A man feels that there must be something wrong with any woman who wants to be with him, and feeling this way has him sabotaging his relationships. In this case, he has learned to take relationships seriously, and likely has looked at his own behaviour in a very [...]

There is a lot of popularity to the concept of manifestation, but it is poorly understood. It is like telling people to think of pink bunnies though nothing motivates them to think of pink bunnies. Expressed in the way they do, it has little power because it sees only part of the nature of what [...]

We call some energies positive and others negative. What I would caution any healer is to not assume an energy is to be removed or rejected. There are those who without choice and just by nature are negative. This doesn’t mean they are destructive. They can be a fire wall fighting fire with fire. It [...]

Tell me what you think anything means. I will describe your world. Sound boastful? Any takers? Our meaning is our reality.
“I’m living, breathing.  With each breath it’s a new world. How can I grasp at that? I try and try to grasp a meaning, but all I get is more questions.”
You grasp it in making [...]

Tantrism tends to be karma yoga. Liberation by exhausting the karmas, positive or negative. In the tantric view you willingly incure positive karma in sex. Delve into it. Lose yourself in it, and by doing so see it for what it is. But also, and this isn’t so public, they do embrace negative karma also. [...]

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 [...]

We all know people who plan well. The best planners are very “imaginative” people aren’t they? The poor planners usually can’t describe what they intend to have happen. They cannot visualise the end result.
Some very good planners I know have no imagination, but can focus on an end goal. Ah indeed, and they usually destroy [...]

All of nature, human and otherwise, observes a pattern and observable duality. Some decry this as human ignorance, but I will offer a different view.
Consider the Chinese symbol yin and yang. Some see it as a symbol of duality, and don’t go much further with it. But I find it the simplest most direct way [...]

In the shadow, the human mind will create “bad” things“, but the bad things are things arising from our nature, the same as those parts of ourselves we praise. But being parts of the one whole truth of who we are, often that shadow mirrors everything we consider worthy, every virtue we claim stemming from [...]

I am considered autistic. It makes me a natural nihilist, and I have always been a negative thinker. The funny thing is, I tried with all my might not to be. This drove me into a deep depression, and the more I tried to understand the world as I was told it was, and the [...]

Spiritual discussions and therapy don’t often cross paths. Doesn’t it seem strange they don’t cross? What do spiritual groups have to offer if they won’t accept pain and a need to heal? Platitudes maybe. They make statements implying they want to help and heal, but pain is somehow beneath them. Taoism teaches that our strength [...]

Consider a sunny day. The flowers are open. The sky is clear and maybe not too hot, and the birds are singing. This is the world with a normal balance of energy. Have any of you been to a place that seemed almost the opposite of this? It seemed to drink up your energy like [...]

The cane fields parted last night. One half went to the right, the other half to the left. A clear line was drawn. The darkness of that message was on its path.
So you read this omen? As it was happening, I could smell the change in the air. It was pungent. I got chicken skin. [...]

There are certain people that leave me feeling drained consistently.  Are they really draining me? What can I do about it? They may be, but are they draining you or taxing you?
Hmmm, they don’t annoy me or anything like that. One is a friend who I like, but I can only see her for short [...]

The spiritual darkness discussion group, at ‘One World, Many Paths’ in Second Life, was started because a lot of other spiritual groups bar people from talking about negative feelings, and tell them that if they would just be more spiritual they wouldn’t feel bad. We don’t do that here, and we let people share and discuss [...]

Comfort is both a good thing, and perhaps one of our greatest evils also. We tend to neglect our instincts with comfort. We mistake comfort for ease, and we can be totally at ease but not comfortable. In that case, people tend to just suffer the stress to keep the ease.
Comfort has two domains: the stasis [...]

I heard a talk by someone who has become hated in the medical industry. Through freedom of information act he uncovered that anti-depressants are as useful as placebos, and they have the tests to show it.
Is there such a thing as a poison placebo, like if somebody thinks a vile of water would kill [...]