I’m Jim Dollar and I’m here to help people find their life and live it in a “Who am I and what am I about?” kind of way. I spent 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., serving congregations in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina, and picking up pointers along the way. When I retired in February, 2011, I took a personal oath of silence and solitude, and have no social connections at all beyond time spent with our three daughters, five granddaughters, two great grand children and their families. Leaving a lot of time for reading and writing and pursuing my interests.
My primary interest is in devoting my time to my intuition, which I think of as my inner Knower, and refer to as my Gnostic (From the Greek word Gnosis for knowing, knowledge, particularly about spiritual mysteries) Partner, and also as Psyche/Tao because I don’t know where the line lies between Psyche and Tao, and I think they are the same source of knowing as “Gnosis,” “Gnostic,” “Intuition” are. Developing our relationship with our spiritual guide within is the best thing we can do in the service of finding our life and living it.
This has nothing to do, with theology or Christian Doctrine, or Christianity, or religion, and all of those things get in the way of living aligned with, in full accord with, Tao, Psyche, Gnosis, our Gnostic Partner, our Knower Within. And it also has nothing to do with what we want to do and everything to do with what we must do, have to do, have no choice but to do, in the sense of being gripped by a compelling force directing us toward This and away from That, That, and That over there.
It has nothing to do with thinking/desiring and everything to do with Knowing-Doing, Being.
I don’t recall how many times, but more than two or three, when in the ministry I would be walking with people through a divorce and they would say to me, “I knew it wasn’t going to work from the start.” That is the kind of knowing I am talking about flowing from Tao, Psyche, Gnosis, our Gnostic Partner, our Knower within. And “flowing” is the term of choice because being at one with Tao, etc. is being in the flow of life and being, at one with what is called for here, now and living in light of it no matter what. It is what Jesus was talking about when he said in Gethsemane, “Thy will, not mine, be done.”
And it is the way, the truth, and the life, and the path to “having life and having it abundantly,” though we may not be rich or even well-to-do. But we will have lived the life that is ours to live and done what is ours to do, and we can’t buy that with silver and gold.
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