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June 2024

June 04, 2024

To Be Or Not To Be — Some Ideas On The Abortion Debate – 3

We each owe it to ourselves and to society to be fully informed of all...

May 2024

May 21, 2024

To Be Or Not To Be — Some Ideas On The Abortion Debate – 2

Depending on the culture, or the region, killing may be legal in the following circumstances:...

May 08, 2024

To Be Or Not To Be — Some Ideas On The Abortion Debate

The “abortion debate” is mired in emotional charges and countercharges. So, when does life begin?...

February 2024

February 21, 2024

My Personal Cosmology – Part 4 – The Journey Back to God

What are the four pillars of your understanding of life, your personal cosmology? What are...

January 2024

January 25, 2024

A Synopsis of My Personal Cosmology – Part 3 – Incarnation

Souls exist in timelessness. At some stage, all souls sign up for incarnational experiences. Every...

December 2023

December 21, 2023

A Synopsis of My Personal Cosmology – Part 2 – Evolution

There is an intelligence guiding the entire process of evolution. If you want to call...

December 14, 2023

A Synopsis of My Personal Cosmology – Part 1

We need theologies to maneuver as we try to understand what God is. But, as...

September 2023

September 05, 2023

Prayer “Requests”: Putting Theory Into Practice

For life circumstances that may unfold in a variety of ways, the alternate reality sought...

August 2023

August 28, 2023

Prayer As Imagination and Directed Attention

Just as a film director might make requests that are easy to fulfill (e.g. dialog...

August 22, 2023

Some Musings that Support the Theme: “This is My Body.”

1. God said, ‘This is My Body.’ God is a grandmother, a baker-woman kneading the...

August 21, 2023

How Else Might We Pray?

How can we attain a better experiential knowing of what we are doing in prayer,...

July 2023

July 24, 2023

Ripple Me This

Each of us is a butterfly-in-Brazil flapping its colorful, delicate wings and thus helping to...

July 08, 2023

Prayer 2.0 – The Practice of Prayer

Traditionally, prayer (“1.0”) is thought of as a verbalized, rationally stated request or wish, to...

June 2023

June 30, 2023

What is Prayer? A New Vision

The following is an attempt to update ancient notions of prayer and its effects in...

June 21, 2023

What is the True Nature of Prayer? – What is Life? What Is the Self?

Much of who we consider ourselves to be in the moment, how we evaluate things...

June 14, 2023

What is the True Nature of Prayer? – Part 2 – Understanding Time

Ubiquitous as time seems to be, it’s fundamental nature continues to be a matter of...

June 08, 2023

What is the True Nature of Prayer? – Part 2 – Consciousness, Matter and the World

The following are some exploratory thoughts about the meaning of prayer in light of current...

April 2023

April 24, 2023

Before Enlightenment Chop Wood, Carry Water. After Enlightenment Chop Wood, Carry Water. – An Essay on Ritual

Ritual is an ancient and pervasive aspect of life on planet Earth. Rituals are both...

April 11, 2023

An Ordinary Walk (March 5, 2018)

It started out as an ordinary walk. . . .Then I woke up and my...

December 2022

December 19, 2022

A Letter to Santa Claus

Dear Santa, It’s me again – Seán. Sorry for my long silence; it’s been 71...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

Bring on the Mysticists

Mysticists live where real science meets true spirituality. The mystical impulse is the umbilical cord...

November 16, 2022

Shell Shock

What hunger will liberate us now? What crisis will unveil the ‘kingdom of God’ for...

October 2022

October 11, 2022

How Many Languages Does God Speak? Part 2

The cosmos itself is multilingual and uses, not just the senses and brain, but primarily...

October 03, 2022

How Many Languages Does God Speak? Part 3

Distressed by the intransigence of the Pharisees, Jesus asked them why they could read and...

October 03, 2022

How Many Languages Does God Speak? Part 1

“How many ways does Source speak to us?’ and “How many of these do we...

June 2022

June 21, 2022

How Can I Love God?

So I ask myself: Who is God? And, how can I love Him/Her? As a...

June 07, 2022

The Next Evolutionary Purpose for Humanity

Since the dawn of history, life has followed one particular dynamic, crudely summarized as “looking...

December 2021

December 01, 2021

What is the True Nature of Prayer? – Part I

Prayer is generally thought of as some sort of request, petition, entreaty - or an...

November 2021

November 17, 2021

Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We’ve Created in Our Own Image

There is a euphemism often used in the Judeo-Christian world to refer to certain parts...

August 2021

August 25, 2021

Fire Art

On August 18, 2020, I was forced by the Walbridge Fire in Sonoma County, California...

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