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Form of Faith
What’s my religion, if I have one? Officially I don’t, or perhaps in the strictest sense of the word religion I do. I adopt a Gnostic view and see the spirit and the universe as one, however you choose to characterize these principles. I see neither a reason to anthropomorphize divinity, nor to view it…
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Anxious Faith
You never solve a problem with the awareness that it is a problem. As a matter of fact, it’s often that awareness that helps create that problem in the first place. It’s a pretty common state of mind and therefore people don’t take it seriously as a problem. This is why people with clinical anxiety…
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Christianity and Other Faith
Christianity has been around 2009 years give or take 30. Has it advanced us spiritually? In a sense, yes. The dissonance caused has, and even the message at the heart of the doctrine which had a hand in inspiring Islam. Though the big three (Muslim, Christianity, Judaism) despaired their fourth brother, the Yezidi faith (non…
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What is Faith?
Faith is a tricky concept, and sort of muddles with the other principle of trust. They aren’t identical. We know in this day and age that our senses can deceive us, yes? Yet what do we have to rely on but our senses? So knowing they deceive we still have to use them, don’t we?…
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Process of Faith
The word promise is abused and overused. The only true promise is merely a recognition of what is already a spiritual reality and an affirmation of it. You promise, and believe what you already know? Yes, and promises can be real. Example; If you are traveling along a trail that is dependant on a bridge…
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Keep the Faith
Chasing windmills is a strange pass time. Don Quixote had to have them be monsters, because he meant to revive mythical chivalry. Dragon slaying. So where there were no dragons he made some. People do that when they adhere to creed without faith. The character had a loss of faith, and he sought to revive…
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Faith Goes Beyond
The topic is faith, and I’m not talking about religion or trust. Trust is sort of going with the flow, and accepting your experiences. Accepting that you are who and what you are, and that you see the world as you see it. Faith goes beyond these things. Faith is the grey area in your…
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Faith in Science
There is a term they use in particle physics, but it has been popularized in parapsychology. Psi, or the psi factor. It was a value used to explain that although any two particles are detectable as separate bodies, the force makes them act as a single object though we cannot detect this force. It’s well…
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Have Faith
Not all moments are “good” moments, we learn from “bad” moments as well. As an example, Mother Teresa was a nun. A member of her order. She had all the background and was well versed in her faiths teachings. Her bottom line was in how she lived her life. Her life was very modest and…
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Faith in Iconoclasm
An iconoclast is not necessarily faithless. As a matter of fact, Judaism has what could be considered a tradition of what could be called iconoclastic behaviour, formal debate of their law. Islam, as I understand it, is iconoclastic? Islam is iconoclastic in the literal sense, but has many strictly orthodox sects though some that aren’t…
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Faith In Practice
People should choose their participation in sport in the same way they choose their spiritual path? Neither is right or wrong? Yes. The reason perhaps for the spectacular falls and failings of our modern hero Gods is their lack of spiritual grounding. Sport is left brain? Spirit path right? Sport is the unification of mind…
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Crisis of Faith
Let’s use a metaphor. If you are standing outside of the dance hall, the music sounds noticeably distorted. Most peoples conscious point of view is from there, and they start talking about things like money and moralism, obligation and rectitude or lack there of. Righteousness is a popular term with the religious set. Everyone feels…