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WITH ONLY A FEW EXCEPTIONS, THE EPISODES IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN ARE NOT found in any of the other three gospels. One episode that does also appear in the other gospels is the so-called “Anointing at Bethany” — and in each gospel, it’s a story that turns the status quo on its head. Each …
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IT DIVES TO THE DEEPEST DEPTHS OF YOUR SOUL — at least in theory, if not always in practice. Take a glance at Jungian theory, for example. Jung’s structural model of the psyche traces an inward trajectory that begins with the ego, and quickly descends through unconscious complexes and the shadow (something like a neglected …
Meaning, Myth and Human Consciousness “My old Pueblo friend … thought that the raison d’être of his pueblo had been to help their father, the sun, to cross the sky each day. I had envied him for the fullness of meaning in that belief, and had been looking about without hope for a myth of …
IN A 1948 ESSAY, PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN PRESENTED his “fundamental vision” of our expanding universe in which “material arrangements” are becoming increasingly complex, consciousness is reaching ever higher levels, and Christian mysticism is the “perfect energy” for driving evolution forward. (See “My Fundamental Vision” in Toward the Future, 1975, especially the discussion of mysticism, …
Confusion …Disappointment …Rejection …Loneliness … is the question. Love is the answer. Betrayal …Loss …Violence …Fear … is the question. Love is the answer. Joy …Blessing …Ecstasy …Being … is the question. Love is the answer. Thank you for reading my blog. If you enjoyed this post or found it insightful, please share it with …
IF YOU’VE BEEN READING MY POSTS, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED a recurring theme beginning to appear with some frequency. That theme recently crystalized in my mind as a short, declarative sentence: Love is the answer. Until this morning, I “knew” the sentence was one that came to me some nine years ago as I woke …
IN LAST WEEK’S POST, I SUGGESTED CHRISTIANITY IS TRANSFORMING, now, and moving onto an inclusive and enchanted path of justice and deep, experiential knowing. Although I mentioned a few “old and forgotten” practices that are becoming “new” again (like meditation and contemplation), I soon realized I didn’t say much of anything about the theology of …
SOMETHING TRULY REMARKABLE MAY BE HAPPENING, but it seems to be as quiet as a whisper, as invisible as a breeze. Christianity appears to be in the midst of another cycle of revolutionary change, the fourth one in its history by my count. Some may want to call it another Reformation, but it feels more …
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IT’S OFTEN DELIGHTFUL, AND SOMETIMES JARRING, when the flow of the book you’ve been reading suddenly takes an unexpected turn, right at the end. Talented novelists know how to do that well, but it’s not what I expect to find in a book about the brain by a neuroscientist. The first six chapters of David …
USUALLY, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, “YOU’RE SO THOUGHTLESS!” IT MEANS you’ve done something wrong, something about which you should feel shame; but it’s not always so. Recently, I’ve been re-reading Brian Walker’s rendition of the Hua Hu Ching (now spelled Huahujing), a Daoist text attributed to Laozi, which had been preserved only through oral tradition for …
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