“Mysticism?” “Spirituality?”… Just Words
Response to a question from a friend: Hmmm, words. ‘Mysticism.’ ‘Spirituality.’ What do we mean when we …
Category Archives: Christianity
The Priests, The Shaman, And The Mystic….
We are born into a group, and membership in the group and the boundary with other groups can be …
Nature As The Church… The Shrines The Altars….
That was my impression as I roamed the lush gardens of Japan. Beautifully sculpted, the gardens draw you along winding …
Sunday… The Lord’s Day…?
Poseidon. A personification, indeed a deification, of the unfathomable power of the oceans and seas. But look beyond the …
“Neurotic Children….”
“People who know nothing about nature are of course neurotic, for they are not adapted to reality. They are …
Our (Lost) Sacred Connection To Nature….
This is from an email I recently sent an old friend: Great getting together. Like I briefly said, I …
“Rave On Thy Holy Folk…”
“All of God is in all things (although not totally, but in some more abundantly and in others less.) …
Yoga and Atonement…
“Perform your duty with equipoise, oh Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called Yoga.”—Bhagavad Gita. …
The Untaught Key to Us All….
“Their holy places are the woods and groves, and they call by the name of God that hidden presence which …
A Failure Of Nerve….
“Professor Gilbert Murray has termed the centuries between the flowering of classical Athens [circa 450 BC] and the growth of …
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