January 2, 2005[January 15 2025] These are two things that appear quite differently to Body and Spirit. An eastern teacher taught one day, ‘Death is an Illusion.’ The next day, he taught, ‘Death is Real.’ His students tried to pin him down: ‘Today you tell us Death is Real, yesterday you told us it is …
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How The Universe Looks From Here
The last day of 2004 I wrote the first words of a blog on a quiet little site of writers and readers. There are now nearly 400 pages of that blog, and it’s still there on Blogit; the site that has become quieter over the years but still hangs on. I still add to it …
What Do You Believe?
Everyone at some time in their life, if they cannot travel widely around the world, should study anthropology. Or at least, read a book or two on the subject. I recommend Edward T Hall’s many wise and readable works. Since humankind traded instinct for intellect, every society in the world has wrangled with the same …
Body and Soul
Wandering freely joy-filled Lightcrossing universes with a notionCuriosity on wheels, on wings,on jetpacks, mobile dreamsever always in merry motion…Wants to see, wants to know,no boundaries where the Light can go! Try it out, try it on, form of solid matter–Ponderous, preposterous,time-bound hungering hulk of masssenses appalling and imperious…Wants to touch, to feel, to feedearthbound sack …
Pinning Down ‘God’
PART ONE: DISTINGUISHING RELIGION FROM SPIRITUALITY It has been said that there are as many recipes for borscht as there are Russians. Of course, borscht is a matter of personal taste, and only really important to beet fanciers. If there are any wars fought over which borscht is best, they are probably very small, and …
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