Spirituality for Living

Remaining grounded, sort of like an electrical circuit. It’s a very broad topic. Every world tradition has spoken of it and its necessity in one form or another.
Honestly if you aren’t pursuing “spiritual practices”, there is a tendency in life to get scattered. To get seriously out of touch with the basics of life itself [...]

Are we never to force our will on life? People think that without force, without “taking initiative”, we would never express ourselves at all. Never do or create anything. We are told any creation is an act of will. Everything is supposedly hard work. Well, stress happens even if you find the inner way. But [...]

Do you have a very difficult time doing anything without your heart being involved? Then don’t exclude your heart. It isn’t necessary. The only way it’s ‘meant’ to be done (if that word has any meaning at all) is the way it’s naturally done.
People often expect great mystical events from meditation, yet most often meditation [...]

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 [...]

I resist channeling. The ‘teachers’ seem to me much like humans, and at times I grow tired of the philosophy, duty, and platitudes. Many people say they are channeling but they aren’t. Others don’t, but relate well to the teachers. I do channel some, and they don’t identify with incarnation. Many think channeling is contact with [...]

First seclusion, then the next stage of a rite of passage is limination. Going to the edge.  These days many people make a career of that but there is no reason. It is sort of rebellion but without a clue. They go to the edge because they don’t like the center. Naturally it’s crazy, but [...]

For various reasons, we accept that we “must” from society, but we do not “have” to do anything except breathe and eat? Actually, yes we do. You won’t get to eat anything if you don’t work, or break the law. Somebody owns anything and everything you might want. It is your choice, but should you [...]

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“In this kind of work, stuff is going to come up one last [...]

Food magic is not unlike many other disciplines, and it can both be tied to healing magic and self transformation. “What you put in” is perhaps one of the core principles of all magic. But the term sorcery, literally means putting in and taking out. There is a lot to consider with that, and dark [...]

Maybe an illustrative exercise. Someone want to pick a food?
Carrots. Ok, good pick. To the Native Americans carrots were a person, and so was corn. If carrots were a person, what kind of person would carrots be?
Upper body strength. Rooted, Bright. Ok, earthy and bright?
They are hard, and break when they are raw, but soft [...]

Avocation is also known as ones “Calling”. We all deal with the realities of vocation in one way or another, but that is not the same thing. Your vocation is just gainful work you do, because someone employs you to do it, and can be completely arbitrary. Avocation is what you will do from your [...]

Destruction is sometimes the way to get the wall out of the way of a creative person, or destroy the philosophers principles so they can find better ones. The person whose calling is destruction, brings the gift of strength. The person whose calling is fundamentally creative, brings the gift of possibilities and hope, but avocation [...]

If your calling is the philosopher, you function on meaning and principles, and if a situation seems to have no principle you feel lost. Me, I function on rhythm or cycles, flow. I function on chaos. When the fire stops burning then I wonder what’s up.
Creating chaos? Ah no, I don’t need to create it, [...]

I have heard people say that to be spiritual in a material world; all materialism must be rejected for the spiritualist needs nothing, but their spiritual essences. I believe to live a spiritual life in this materialistic world is the opportunity to break illusions and delve deeper into the understanding of what life becomes as [...]

We plan too much and never live in the moment, and what does this planning ever really merit? Has anyone found meaning in plans that I don’t know about?
But surely planning is important if we want to live? If no-one ever planted an apple tree intending for someone to eat apples in the future? That [...]

How are you today?

Still Breathing. Breathing is good.  I rather like it. Breathing and moving. So, we are all alive today?
And kicking. Oh, do indeed kick if it’s necessary. I enjoy marital arts.
In gratitude today, thank God. Excellent, remember to thank God is to be likewise grateful to yourself.
We thank ourselves all too infrequently. [...]

Not being a part of the system of judgements, which you didn’t yourself create anyway, goes a long way to helping you see the issue of obligation clearly. Ignoring your obligations all together is no more wise than subscribing to everyone anyone passes to you, because other people have held obligations to you as well. [...]