Spirituality for Living

Shoulda, woulda, coulda syndrome. Why does it exist? Should? then why? Would have? then why didn’t you? Could of? what does that mean? It’s madness.
You can question everything. I strongly encourage it. The point where nothing seems to have meaning because everything is questionable, that is when you can see real meaning because it is [...]

Why can’t people accept that they can’t control their life or others? They misidentify themselves so they don‘t know who they are. They think there is a ‘them’ that needs to struggle. For example, accepting a suicide is hard, and there is no such thing as merely accepting. Life exists in a pattern of tensions [...]

There is a principle of affinity. To see another level you do have to achieve a resonance with it. There does seem to be a bit of glorification of this and I think the reason would be that some levels do feel uplifting. They can create a sense of euphoria as the fairies dance did [...]

There is a dark side to may popular attitudes that people deny, and in fact everything we think and do is symbolic. Even with the more “normal” types. Some say suicide is by no means symbolic, but indeed it is. It is usually the playing out of a drama that was full of symbolism. It [...]

We have had terrible things happen in our lives. Things we did not choose. These terrible things aren’t necessarily your karma. You don’t exist in a void. For example, you do not choose another’s suicide. They do. If someone chooses to jump off a cliff, I can’t really stop them. It is the same with karma. [...]

Hope in this day and age seems a much maligned feeling. Yet we deal with levels of mental illness that have never been known before. Stress related illnesses are our biggest killers, and yet we are admonished to be realistic, be rational.  How realistic is it to say that we should be rational first and [...]

Control is human nature, but control was never to deny other parts of our nature. Self denial is slow and pointless suicide. Control exists as part of our nature to let our thought guide our fulfillment, and our fulfillment arises only from inner nature. If we ignore inner nature in favour of another definition in [...]

Does superstition play a part in Bushido? In a sense, any tradition is a superstition. Does any belief survive? Because that is the literal meaning of superstition.
Does any form of Bushido persist in modern Japanese society, or is it all historical? Actually yes. It doesn’t exist unmodified, but it is how the “do” disciplines got [...]

Maybe nations are the gullible ones? An old acquaintance of mine once said, and you might recognize this from ‘Men in Black’ also, one person can be smart, crowds are stupid. So, yes. Just last Christmas, there was no emergency, no natural disaster, but three people were trampled to death.
You can avoid accountability in a [...]

Hate is learned.
We ascribe evil qualities to fire, because it seems to lay things to waste. We do not permit it place. In the natural dynamic tension there is no hate. Fire does not hate, and its energy though it destroys gives new life as well. So in dramatizing this conflict, in mistakenly believing this [...]

Is there really a force that tells you when you can die, or is it the person that makes that call? It’s a mix of things. Most people think of life and the “other side”, but that division doesn’t really exist. Essentially it’s like looking at the world through a one way mirror.  God can’t, and [...]

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 [...]

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 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 once wept at a friends funeral. It was a first for me. He was a dear friend. Had helped me find a place in humanity. Helped me get off the streets. When he was killed by the train I wept, because he had spent a life “trying” and he had been so hopeful. Human [...]