Some thoughts on how we live in a relative world, which is an expression of a deeper divine Absolute.
Tag: truth
The Radical Irony of Mystical Experience: The Overview Effect of the Divine
The ironies and paradoxes run high and deep in mystical experience. Here is some of what I've experienced.
The Glory of God is Consciousness
A reinterpretation of a revelation to Joseph Smith on the glory of God.
Relative Truth, Knowledge, and Morals in Mormonism, Law, and Mysticism
Will we ever discover the absolute truth, moral or intellectual, or otherwise? Can we ever know the Absolute?
Thoughts about "From Naïveté to Wisdom," the Pattern of the Spiritual Journey
I want to say a few thoughts about Richard Rohr's daily meditation today about "From Naïveté to Wisdom." Please click the link to read it. It's a beautiful simplified perspective of the faith journey: from order, to disorder, and then reorder.
A Map of Reality
Humans want to know what's real, what's reality, what's true. We have explored the outside world and our inner worlds for millennia, and we seem to still not be sure what is absolutely real. I think the issue might be that what is really real is not something that can be seen or communicated through language at our dualistic level of perception. We have to transcend duality experientially and consciously in order to know the "really real," sometimes called the Nondual, the One, the Real, the Absolute, or God. Perhaps only at that level of consciousness may we come to truly know what is ultimately Real and True.
Beliefs vs. Reality
There was a fascinating show that my wife and I watched last night on Mind Field with Vsauce (Michael Stevens). It was season 3, episode 7, titled "Behavior and Belief."
A Radical Reconstruction of the Mormon Narrative (and Christianity)
I will begin to offer a reconstruction of the Mormon narrative, which also applies in many ways to Christianity in general.
Is the Truth Really Found “Within”?
Some Mormons, other Christians, and perhaps people generally, are uncomfortable with the idea that the truth is found within us. They might consider this to be incompatible with the gospel, navel-gazing, narcissism, and selfishness. But I think the whole purpose and goal of the Christian gospel, and of spirituality more generally, is to help us discover that Truth is at the core of our being, which is our divine nature in God, in Reality. This is beyond all that is "selfish" in us, reaching the ground of who and what we really are.
What does it mean to be “a god”?
There are stories, legends, mythologies, folklore, traditions, histories, scriptures, and texts from all around the world which tell us of humans who have reached the stature of the gods. They have, in essence, become "a god." Some recognizable examples are people such as Jesus, Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), and Muhammad. The process that these went through has been called theosis, deification, divinization, realization, awakening, and enlightenment. What does it mean to become or be "a god"?