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Is God Personal? A Mystical View

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 Bryce Haymond4 Comments

Many think God is a personal God, even a person. I suggest there is truth in that, but perhaps not as we usually think.

Posted in nature, philosophy, scienceTagged Christ, God, impersonal, mind, mystical experience, mysticism, personal

God Is In the Black Hole

January 2, 2021 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

a poem

Posted in poetry, scienceTagged black hole, cloud, contemplation, dark, darkness, God, one, poem, singularity, spacetime, unknowing

What is God? What is Sin? A Mystical View

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Bryce Haymond1 Comment

How are God and sin related? How can we conceptualize these words in mysticism, going beyond the traditional religious definitions and descriptions?

Posted in philosophy, psychologyTagged God, God the Father, mind, nature of God, separation, sin, Son of God

God is the Transcendent IN the Immanent

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

The Transcendent isn't somewhere else or something else, but is the divine ground within all things, the empty essence from which all things arise and take on form.

Posted in philosophy, psychologyTagged Christianity, God, God the Father, immanent, quantum mechanics, self-transcendence, Son of God, transcendent

Does God have a Face? A Mystical Perspective

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

What does it mean to see God's "face"? To see God "face to face"? Perhaps it is not the literal meaning that we often think it means.

Posted in philosophy, psychology, religion, scripturesTagged Buddhism, contemplation, face-to-face, God, Meister Eckhart, Moses, seeing, seer, St. Augustine

What is the Mystical “Light of God”?

April 2, 2020April 17, 2020 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

Many mystics describe seeing a bright light in their experiences. What is that?

Posted in philosophy, psychology, religionTagged blinding, blindness, consciousness, ego, ego death, energy, enlightenment, God, illumination, light, photon, sun, ultimate reality

God is the Consciousness that is Always Present in Us

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Bryce Haymond4 Comments

God is always present, but our thought-filled minds become veiled from recognizing that Presence.

Posted in nature, psychology, scienceTagged consciousness, God, light, mind, presence, present, presentism, pure consciousness, thought

Where Art Thou, O God of Mormonism?

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

A prayer for Mormonism, and for Mormons.

Posted in nature, prayer, religion, scripturesTagged Ahman Prayer, authoritarianism, body, Body of Christ, climate change, Earth, gender, God, hidden, incarnation, misogyny, Mormonism, mysticism, poverty, prayer, Spirit, temple, wealth
Saint Augustine

Confessions quote, BHT: My Late Love!

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

A famous quote from St. Augustine's Confessions, newly translated.

Posted in poetry, psychology, scripturesTagged beauty, Beloved, BHT, Confessions, creation, fire, God, light, love, mystical experience, peace, St. Augustine, taste

#44 Julie M. Brown’s “First Vision” Account

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Bryce HaymondLeave a comment

A psychotherapist tells of her most sacred visionary experience she had back in 1969.

Posted in First VisionsTagged entheogens, fear, First Visions, God, heaven, ineffable, joy, light, love, mind, peace, presence, psychedelics, real, realness, sun

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