Each situation has its own direction and flow that has to be recognized and taken into account. Forcing action that is not conducive to the situation as a whole creates a disturbance in the flow that has impact and implications for the balance and harmony and wellbeing of the here, now and the not yetContinue reading “August 16, 2025”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
August 15, 2025
We are capable of things we cannot imagine simply by relaxing into ourselves and opening ourselves up to each situation as it arises, allowing the situation to call us forth in the service of what is called for here, now. The old Taoist ideal of doing the right thing, in the right place, at theContinue reading “August 15, 2025”
August 13, 2025
God is a psychic reality, not a spiritual being.Comprehending this changes everything.For one thing, it makes us the closestsome people ever get to God.And it gives us the opportunity to remind them that they, too, are God, and need to start acting like it.Without saying anything about going to hellif they don’t.If they don’t, theyContinue reading “August 13, 2025”
August 12, 2025
We all are Psychic marvels, as is every other physical thing in the Cosmos. Psyche is the source of everything. And, if we are wondering what the point of it all is, the whole point is just for the joy of it. There is nothing to gain beyond being joyful over the experience of beingContinue reading “August 12, 2025”
August 11, 2025
I would like to talk things over with strangers just to get their take on things. But they don’t seem to welcome my inquiries. There should be places for conversation like libraries are for books and magazines. Maybe AI will develop along these lines. I can imagine talking to people long dead, brought to lifeContinue reading “August 11, 2025”
August 10, 2025
Money means power and control. In the service of what? Toward what end? What is controlling the controllers? They create chaos, noise, complexity–in the service of what? Having their way? Getting/having what they want? They serve the joy of pushing things around, burning things down? Destroying, decimating, all things good? Anger unleashed upon civilization? AContinue reading “August 10, 2025”
August 09, 2025
There was no Garden of Eden.There was no Adam, no Eve.There was no Original Sin.There was no need of atonement/redemption.There was no need for Jesus to die on a cross.Etc.It was all made up by people with nothing better to do.What are we going to do now?I recommend growing up.Facing the truth of how thingsContinue reading “August 09, 2025”
August 08, 2025 – B
We are in the presence of something at all times.It is hard to miss a sunrise like this,and we have to look more closely at other things,but. Everything waits to be seen for what it is, where it is, when it is, how it is, and that is what we are here for–to see whatContinue reading “August 08, 2025 – B”
August 08, 2025
I Googled it. There have been 267 popes in 20 centuries. That is about 40 popes per century. There were 4 centuries when the Church of Rome (and the other Orthodox Christian Churches which were in the background) was basically calling the shots for 400 years about what was Orthodox Christianity and what was not.Continue reading “August 08, 2025”
August 07, 2025
We take the wrong things too seriously, no? It is one of the hardest things, living in ways appropriate to the occasion.I think that means we are in too much of a hurry too much of the time.We jump to conclusions and rush to judgment and fail to take our time some more again everyContinue reading “August 07, 2025”
August 06, 2025
Signing with the Photo Agency was my most brilliant move to datein that it forces me to relive all the old photographs. My life with the craft began in 1997, or 8, or 9.It began with me telling my congregation in Batesville, Mississippi, “Don’t send me to the Holy Land” (Which is something congregations sometimesContinue reading “August 06, 2025”
August 05, 2025
Reflection leads to realization. This was Joseph Campbell’s Buddha impersonation. The heart, soul, foundation of enlightenment is reflection leading to realization.Enlightenment is not a steady state of being. It is one step after another all the way to here, now. There is no destination. There is no place to be other than here, now. OnceContinue reading “August 05, 2025”
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