Last December I published an essay titled, Thoughts on God: When ‘S%&t’ Happens. After reading a flurry of books (the flurry continues, because three more are on the way), let’s take a “behind the scenes” look why “S%&t” happens. While many of you know exactly what I’m talking about, some of you might be inclined to ask, “What is ‘S%&t?’”…
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Thoughts on Beingness: Natural Human Energetic Flight
California Condor Overhead, originally uploaded by phaelosopher. A Question…. Since there is One Mind, One Intelligence, One Brain…. AND …Since humankind’s ability to travel via flying has always been there….yet…. just manifested successfully in the last century…. How Do You Think The Day Will Come About When All Of Us Can FLY With Our Own Natural Bodies At…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Dealing with the Day-to-Day Pt. II
Examining Our Beliefs Cacti In Bloom, originally uploaded by phaelosopher. Beliefs manifest on an individual as well as a collective basis. My beliefs — about myself, relationships, “women,” life, money, health, “right and wrong,” etc., supersede collective beliefs. They set the stage, and become perceptual filters for the interactions and relationships that I have day-to-day. The outer life…
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For some, it might seem reasonable to think that musings on such subjects as God, love, oneness, and equality of beingness have no practical place in the day-to-day scheme of things. After all, we’ve got any number of other more “pressing” issues to think about. However, the fact is, our thoughts on God, relative to who we are, have everything to…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Beliefs That Indicate We DON'T Know Who We Are
From time to time it occurs to me to raise the importance of questioning of “who” and contemplating “what” we are. It is FAR MORE important than many of us would really want to think, especially since most of us don’t know whether we know who we are, or not, since all of us may THINK we know. Even me.…
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Bringing Our Highest Self ‘Out of the Closet’ with Love America’s forefathers had the profound wisdom to inculcate a fundamental separation of “church” from matters of “state” into the very fabric of governance. How could the other foundations of freedom, such as of assembly, worship (or not to), and speech (including the press), be ensured if a religion — doesn’t…
Read MoreThoughts on Self Mastery: Desire, Belief, and Intent
When presented with examples of what might constitute self-mastery… such as the ability to heal a cancerous medical condition, transform an abusive relationship, or confronting what we perceive to be an extremely negative, unreachable, or even evil situation, it is easy to tell ourself that if this is mastery, it’s beyond our ability. In essence, we can’t. Though we might believe the…
Read MoreAwakening the Master Within
del.icio.us tags: god, mastery, change, healing, existence, good, love, duality Like the act of breathing, where life rides upon the rhythmic indrawing and release of air and energy through the body, I experience the rhythms attendant to the growth in my own awareness, through significantly intent times of reading, and then releasing that which would be expressed through writing. There…
Read MoreLet's Play 'What If'… An Education in Beingness
del.icio.us tags: Existence, Being, Education, Humanity, God, Religion Imagine what our world might be like if we started considering, learning, and appreciating what our divine nature naturally allows us as human beings? Imagine what it would be like if we started practicing it from Breath One, and consciously continued doing so through the last? Such training need not rely on any specific system…
Read MoreMoving Beyond 'Surviving,' to Succeeding
The time when “the will to survive” was prime, has given way to the time when “the will so succeed” prevails. We’ve always wanted to succeed, but often was bogged down in figuring out how to survive. Then, even when we did figure out how to survive, all we had accomplished was to succeed at surviving, which is no fun. However,…
Read MoreForgiving a Madman, Releasing the Madness
In a blaze of gore, Sueng-Hui Cho went from anonymous to infamous in a matter of minutes; a “nobody” in his mind, to a somebody in ours, whose name is on the lips of a nation, and around the world… whose image, and madness became the subject of prime time television. In their silence, the victims don’t get nearly the…
Read MoreConsidering the Possibilities of Our God-ness
Technorati tags: God, Being, Identity, Humanity, Existence In many of these essays I invite each reader to consider the question of who and what we are. Why? Because the answer has everything to do with what we will allow to be possible in our lives. Irrespective of what anyone else does, successes or failures, you are the prime director of what…
Read MoreThoughts on Peace: Consciousness, Observation, Inner Truth, and its Amplification
Technorati tags: Consciousness, Spirituality, Truth, Peace, Quantum Mechanics, Physics One of the central components to the science of quantum mechanics is the role of the observer. It is, in fact, remarkable that the observer is acknowledged as even having a role. The term, “observer” is a scientific euphemism for the human consciousness, which itself can be further broken down to…
Read MoreThoughts on God: Embracing My Magician
del.icio.us tags: Peace, God, Philosophy, War on Terror, Freedom If you have taken an interest in the missives that I publish in this space, I want to thank you. I believe these ideas can be life changing, if we want to change our lives in joyful, magical ways. That was and is my desire in contemplating these issues, and in…
Read MoreThoughts on Peace: Standing Down the Military in Iraq
I’ve suggested that the wisest thing for president Bush to do would be to issue an order to STAND DOWN military action in Iraqi, as a matter of official and unofficial policy. This does not mean that our troups would become sitting ducks or target practice. It does not dishonor the troops, nor the United States. It is an action…
Read MoreThoughts on Love: The Greatest Power
Love is a power… not a force. In fact, love is the greatest power there is. Although we can’t touch it, everyone knows when it is present, and mourns when it is thought to be missing. Love is greater than any force, and it is available to all. Love can change the worst of situations into the best. That includes…
Read MoreThoughts on War: As the Wheel of Grief Turns
This past week, 60 Minutes broadcast a story on the massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha by four Marines led by 25 year old Staff Sargeant Frank Wuterich. Wuterich was charged with unpremeditated murder (killing without military justification), which will be decided by a military jury. If anyone should have been in the seat, answering questions of…
Read MoreWar as Yesterday's Way: Not Today's
Beingness and this Problem With Iraq Do you think my inquiry into, and discussion about “who we are” is an intellectual exercise? Think again. Every action we take revolves around our self-understanding, or lack thereof. Our willingness to express the wisdom of our own conscience, or simply blend with the ideological herd that is public opinion, indicates the extent to which we will…
Read MoreThoughts on Beingness: Who and What We Are
On Our Bodies, Beliefs, and Spirituality Who, or perhaps what do you think you are? It is so easy to assume that we are our body. We can go through an entire lifetime harboring this belief… living it… fearing death with it. We can define ourself by our body type, size, and coloration. We can dress our body in ways that…
Read MoreAsk Your Real Doctor, Ask Your Self
Do you consider yourself a news junky? Okay… if you don’t feel comfortable being associated with the word junky, does the word addict feel better? The fundamental question is if “news,” of the personal, local, or national kind, is a prominent input source that goes into the evolution and maintenance of your worldview. If so, then God help you… and…
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