They saw the empty space I left, The pew unfilled, the rites bereft. Heard silence where the hymns once soared, And whispered low, "He's lost the Lord." Their faces etched with kind concern, For lessons they believed I'd spurn. They saw the structure fall away, And feared my Soul had gone astray. But oh, the [...]
The seeker set out, a map in his hand, Tracing the footprints in well-traveled sand. He spoke of the journey, the hunger to know, Yet feared the great River’s unyielding flow. He knelt in the temple, he fasted, he prayed,Lit incense and candles, his altar arrayed.He chanted the verses, he bowed and he swayed,Yet deep [...]
They told me Love was bound by law,by covenant, by whispered awe.That only keys in hallowed handscould thread the ties of shifting sands. They warned of doors that lock and fade,of veils unpierced, of debts unpaid.A family lost, a Love denied—unless I bowed, unless I tried. But Love is not a fragile thread,nor bound by [...]
I had a great conversation a few weeks ago on my friend's podcast.
The sitcom celebrity of How I Met Your Mother had an entheogenic "First Vision" experience of "Christ," and lives to tell about it.
A mystical experience of a boy in 1939 Wisconsin remarkably resembles many other such "First Vision" experiences in history.
It seems that no concept that the mind can hold within it will be able to explain the nature of Ultimate Reality.
Are faith healings real? If so, how might they work deep in our psyche?
For many people, religious language is failing. New words are being used to refer to similar religious ideas.
I created a graphic to better illustrate the evolution (or devolution) from mysticism to religion to politics, and back again, as originally modeled by David Steindl-Rast.