jimwdollar

July 07, 2025

I have nursed a recent realization into being: God is a psychic reality, not a spiritual being. Which means, of course, that we are God. We bring God to life, or not, in the way we live. We don’t “believe,” we DO! Or, do-not. And it is not great and grand things that we needContinue reading “July 07, 2025”

July 06, 2025

God is a psychic reality, not a spiritual being.God is a psychic presence,not “God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.”God is present on earth in and through us.What God does,God does through us.We are the arms and legs,hands and feet of God.Prayer aligns us with God,and should be thought of as silent communionandContinue reading “July 06, 2025”

July 05, 2025

Think of God as being closer to our intuition than to being The Lord God Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth. A lot closer. God is much more like our original nature, our inherent imagination, our bodily knowing where we belong and where we have no business being, our innate virtues (the things we doContinue reading “July 05, 2025”

July 04, 2025

This is the most bleak Fourth of July in my experience, and this is my 81st experience. The Constitution is out of vogue. The Bill of Rights is a laughter. The majority of the Supreme Court asks Trump how he wants them to vote. We have a king on his throne in the White House.Continue reading “July 04, 2025”

July 03, 2025

Here we are, now what? Where do we go from here? How do we get there? Who says so? How do we know they know what they are talking about? What does it matter? Who says so? …I think we say so. About all of it. I think we are the absolute authority here. WhatContinue reading “July 03, 2025”

July 02, 2025

We are watching Democracy crumble as we watch. The British should have thought of this all those years ago. “Forget war! We will just buy you out. How about a million Pounds?” And the Civil War? Same thing. Lincoln makes a deal with the Confederacy. “Forget succession and we will pay you handsomely, every yearContinue reading “July 02, 2025”

July 01, 2025

Silence steadies us and stabilizes us, grounds us and points the way. When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he was saying “Live out of the silence.” The silence is also emptiness and stillness. The three are one, like the Holy Trinity, and they connect us with all that is holy, and lead us to living livesContinue reading “July 01, 2025”

July, 2025

Growing up and doing what is called for in each situation as it arises is all there is to it. All there is to our life. It is more difficult than it might appear to be.Growing is the hardest part. We all grow up against our will. That is what growing up is. Learning toContinue reading “July, 2025”

July, 2025

The best thing we can do for ourselvesis to be quiet in a routine and regular way.When Jesus said, “Pray always,” he meant, “Live out of the silence.”In the silence, we are in the presence of What Has Always Been Called “God.” The silence is the bridge between worlds–the world of conscious reality and theContinue reading “July, 2025”

June 30,2025

Waiting to know IT when we see it,and trusting ourselves to know what to do about it when we do–and in the meantime what do we do while we wait?Waiting is IT for me,and watching,seeing, hearing, knowing, doing, being.That has been IT,and I have had a good time doing IT.Making this photograph,these photographs, was aContinue reading “June 30,2025”

June 29, 2025

Buddhism makes a thing about non-duality. Taoism makes a thing about Yin/Yang. Zen is more Taoist than Buddhism is, yet Zen-Buddhism is a Buddhist thing. Buddhism is the most self-contradictory religion I have ever met. Which makes it the most encased in denial religion I have ever met, and yet, get this, Buddhism is allContinue reading “June 29, 2025”

June 28, 2025

Orthodox Christianity and Gnostic Christianity form the Yin/Yang combination of the Christian Religion. In so doing, they represent Taoism at its best, balancing each other and offering the full edition of truth to meet the needs of the viewing audience. Something for everybody who knows what they are looking at (who knows what they needContinue reading “June 28, 2025”