For many people, to be a witness of Jesus Christ means testifying to a single historical individual, a Jewish teacher who lived in first century Palestine and was executed under the Roman Empire. That figure is central to Christianity, and his life and teachings matter. But when the meaning of Christ is confined only to [...]
A belief in the Resurrection does not have to include belief in the literal reanimation of Jesus' body, that his dead human body literally came back to life and walked out of the tomb. I suggest there are other ways of interpreting the Resurrection myth that are far less unbelievable in our modern age where [...]
It is not something that happens sometime in the future, long after our death, but something which we already are that we may come to realize right now.
A new translation of Genesis 1, updating many ideas in terms of modern cosmology, but also in mystical terms of God's own Incarnation in and as the cosmos, and in all Life as well.
What is the nature of existence beyond our mortal life? Do we have anything to do with it? Yes, very much so.
Many traditional theists think that only some people will be "saved," but I think that a mystical viewpoint might say otherwise, that all are ultimately saved, even though all egos are damned.
Some think we have to qualify for God's Love, that it is something God only gives through religious obedience. Mysticism says not quite.
Does mysticism mandate theism? Or can one be an atheistic mystic? Is mysticism either theistic or atheistic, or something else?
The traditional goal of proselytism is to convert people to an institution and its ways, but there is a deeper conversion that often gets overlooked and overshadowed that has nothing to do with institutions.
I suggest that details in the accounts show that Joseph Smith experienced theosis or divinization in the First Vision, realizing his Oneness in God, or Christ living in him.