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Spiritual Practice
One paradox is that expectations are an interference with genuine practice, like meditation. One quote is, “A true practitioner has an absence of expectation and doubt.” Lama Dodjum Dorjee. So we have this paradox. We are attempting to do something difficult, bring some clarity to the overactive mind, but we need to have that intention…
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Spiritual Nature of Distress
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Spiritual Pain
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Spiritual Q&A
Here are a few questions that I have received in some of my talks. Maybe you’ve wondered as well. If our ancestors and family who have passed over are supposed to be watching over us, what exactly are they doing? They engage in spiritual affairs and are concerned with your spiritual state. But they can’t…
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Questioning Spiritual Paths
People doubt the overblown concepts, sensationalized belief systems, and I don’t think that’s bad. Spirituality should be just as subject to testing and evaluation as science and technology are. If there isn’t any readily available wisdom that you can apply then why believe it? How do you test spirituality? Do the doctrines or insights of…
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Spiritual Wounds
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Spiritual is Animal
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Spiritual Body
I watch human beings traverse the astral a lot. They are sort of sleep walking. On the level I call home, the metaphysical and here, there is really one important factor. The concern is this. Often people experience something on that side and say “Oh, wow!” or like in the movie ‘Close Encounters’ they make…
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Spiritual Forces
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Spiritual Attainment
Reciprocation is the balance of giving and receiving. Ecosystems function on a web of giving and receiving, growth and predation, generation and consumption, but we think we are different don’t we? We think that we can function as independent systems. Be cause and never effect. What does this create for us? Misery and duality. Exactly,…
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Spiritual Shadow
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Spiritual Life
The Buddha rejected the way of the ascetic, but people get hung up on his view of attachments and miss his message. Avoidance can be an attachment, and no insult intended if you are Christian, but in my experience those most concerned with Satan are Christians. They are more concerned about Satan and evil than…
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Spiritual Sacrament
The tribes in Indonesia that eat the brains of their loved one’s are practicing necromancy? In a sense they are, but for them it hasn’t broken from their shamanism. So it is in a sense a spiritual sacrament for them, and in some traditions of necromancy eating portions of the dead was practiced. I would…
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Spiritual Family
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The Importance of Tolerance in Spiritual Life by Adrienne Carlson
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Spiritual Romance
What is it about the quality of something like a beautiful sky that moves us to feel romance? Psychologically, it’s been called “biophilia”. We instinctively have positive responses to witnessing things that are life supportive. I feel romance for things that are bigger than the earth, for the power of the moving stars. Romance can…
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Spiritual Emotion
We discussed the spiritual basis of emotion, placing emotion and the heart as the foundation of spirituality. Then explored a variety of nuances behind it. What is your way of understanding and dealing with emotion? Hawaiian culture has always taken emotion more seriously than the west, unless I’m mistaken. Taken it as all natural, not…
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Spiritual Growth by Becoming An Ordained Minister by R.A. Zorger
A bad workman blames his tools, they say, and a craftsman makes his own. Somebody can show you the bonds of interconnectivity that pull the cosmos into a unified singularity of existence, but the surest path is not play to follow the leader. Rather it is to become a leader of others yourself. By definition…