April 18, 2025

Sunrise Schwabacher Landing 02 06/23/2011 – Grand Teton National Park, Jackson, Wyoming
Spiritual reality is numinous in the sense
that it can be sensed but not said.

Physical reality can be weighed, measured, seen, felt,
defined, said...

I don't know if Psychic reality is the same as spiritual
or on a different level all its own.
I lean toward different all its own,
in that it can announce its presence
by splitting wood and knives,
and slamming doors among other things.

How many levels of reality are there?
And why do we think we know all there is to know
about things that matter?

And reading stars and tea leaves?
Do they warrant serious consideration
when it comes to knowing things beyond the obvious
and taken for granted things?

It is all a mystery to me.
I have no idea how it all ties together,
or if it does.
And I don't know who does.

But, I know plenty of people
who think they know it all,
and that the way they see things
is the way things are.

I call that arrogant and self-centered.

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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