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September 19-C, 2022

“Spiritual” can be Bad Religion with its theology, doctrines, dogma, dharma… And, “spiritual” can be Good Religion with its first-hand experience of encounters with the Numen, the numinous, the ineffable, the sublime, the wonderful, the awe-filled… “Spiritual” can be thinking, logic, reason, analytics… And, “spiritual” can be feeling, awe, wonder, speechlessness… Everything turns on whichContinue reading “September 19-C, 2022”

September 19-B, 2022

To get a sense of the world beyond theology, we would have to go back to the Garden of Eden. Once Adam and Eve ate the Forbidden Fruit, theology was born, and we had the world as it is today. The Knowledge of Good and Evil is theology. “This is Good, that’s Evil!” is theology.Continue reading “September 19-B, 2022”

September, 3rd Week, 2022

If you are contented, comfortable, at peace, satisfied, and glad to be where you are stay there. Continue doing what you are doing, exactly as you are doing it. Go with balance, harmony and well-being all the way. Do not disrupt what is working. People all over the world are quite at home in theirContinue reading “September, 3rd Week, 2022”

September 19-A, 2022

Finding your life and living it means knowing what constitutes life for you, and what takes the life right out of you– and doing more of the things on the first list, and fewer of the things on the second list. Since my wife and I retired, we don’t do much at all on theContinue reading “September 19-A, 2022”

September 18-E, 2022

Heinrich Zimmer said the best things cannot be told/said/ explained because the best things are experiential/feeling things. We can’t talk about experiences/feelings. We can’t say what they are, what they mean. We say, “I love you,” thinking we have said something. Or, “I believe in God.” You get an entire congregation standing and saying together,Continue reading “September 18-E, 2022”

September 18-D, 2022

Wendell Johnson said that we are all born into a culture/society/family that has a certain idea of how things ought to be. But it is never articulated as such. Everybody just knows how things are supposed to be done, and how they are not supposed to be done, but the rules are never spelled out,Continue reading “September 18-D, 2022”

September 18-C, 2022

Wendell Johnson said, “All of our problems stem from our inability to state clearly and specifically what the problem is.” (Or words to that effect). We assume that things should be a certain way, but things are not that way, and we are lost in a fog of things being not right somehow, but weContinue reading “September 18-C, 2022”

September 18-B, 2022

Life is a great place to practice being alive. It is a proving ground, a laboratory, a testing facility, where we get up every day and find ways of being who we are, living true to ourselves, anyway, nevertheless, even so, no matter what, for as long as we breathe. Breathing is the key, theContinue reading “September 18-B, 2022”

September 18-A, 2022

The things we cannot control make us crazy, but we can control being crazy by refusing to allow things we cannot control to make us crazy. Exercise control where you have control. Controlling how we respond to having no control is controlling what we can control. Finding our stability, grounding ourselves on our essential nature,Continue reading “September 18-A, 2022”

September 17-C, 2022

The old formula has held its value undiminished throughout the ages: No expectations, No plans, No agendas, No opinions. The right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence. Sincerity, Integrity, Spontaneity. Original/Essential Nature. Innate virtues from birth. Lead with feeling, not thinking. Re-adjust, make corrections as needed, trusting ourselves to see, hear, understand, know, do, beContinue reading “September 17-C, 2022”

September 17-B, 2022

The first spiritual law is Throw Away Theology And Stand Naked Before The Worst Life Can Do! What do you fear the most? Smile, and ask it to dance! Allow your fear to show you what it has to reveal. Joseph Campbell said, “What you seek lies far back in the darkest corner of theContinue reading “September 17-B, 2022”

September 17-A, 2022

There is a spirit of place with every place, accessible to our feeling/spiritual side. We live mostly cutoff from that side, learning as we do from shortly after birth that the only side that counts is our intellectual/rational side. Intuition and instinct suffer from this division, and we live with half (or less) of ourContinue reading “September 17-A, 2022”