“Business as Usual” Is Not an Option
We are not living at a time when life can merely continue as normal, where business as usual is an option. It has not been this way for a long time now. The fact that many have continued in this way or tried to do so is completely understandable, but it is not the way…
Losing Your Religion When L’Etat C’est Moi
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some…
Awareness of Death
Sentient beings are aware of their mortality. The awareness of death is what gives life focus and purpose: its limitations. The “Best 3 Months” practice taught at the Conscious Dying Institute asks you to envision yourself with 3 months to live: What would your deathbed self require? This provides a tight focus on priorities, getting all affairs…
The Individual Is Important
“You will realize that you are not merely experiencing communication. You will realize you are communication. Your Being is communication. There is nothing else.”Secrets of Heaven:Secret 27 The importance of individual self-reliance for herd immunity to nonsense The internet is full of persuasions; doubtless some given to test our credulity. What saved these two friends…
Create Your Own Reality? How Does That Work? (or Not)
People say, ‘”You create your own reality,” but what does that mean? According to one source it means “You create your reality by your thoughts” “You create your experiences … and become conscious creators” “Every situation you experience … is by your own design” “If you think something, it is.” “Understand that you create your reality and…
Can Humanity Awaken In Time?
Our Future Depends On It But it is not a given. Yes we are an 11th hour species, but we are well into our 11th hour. Can humanity awaken in time and back away from the precipice? Not all minds are wondering. Not all eyes are watching. Many are working hard to avoid thinking about…
In Search of a New God Experience
A Future Unlike Our Past Many are in search of a new God experience. Where is God at this most difficult time in human history? Where are the Religious leaders who should be leading us to greater integrity and individual responsibility that is required at this time? Many people are wondering where God is as…
Uniting Humanity–Vision or Pipe Dream?
Is It Possible to Unite Humanity? I often feel very pessimistic when considering the prospect of uniting humanity. We look so divided and our perspectives on how to solve the world’s problem so fractured. Yet when I have time to sit in silence and contemplate the world passing by before me—as I did recently on…
At The Edge Of The Precipice, Our Lives Have Greater Purpose
Do You See The Edge Of The Precipice? Are you aware of the Great Waves that are building off our shores and the precipice that is looming on the horizon? If you live in the same world I do you would have to have your head in the sand to be able to avoid the…
Redeemed To Myself
Is It Possible To Be Redeemed To Myself? Never mind what God thinks of me. Is it possible to be redeemed to myself? All my life I have seen myself as unworthy and unloveable and un, un… It has been a chronic situation and one that good works and positive affirmations only slightly phase. But…