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August 2021

August 03, 2021

“Why Do We Exist?”

If at this stage, our post-pandemic goal, personally or as a society, is simply to...

July 2021

July 20, 2021

Trinitarian Spirituality – Part 3

In this version of the Hindu trinity, I want to explore Shiva energy as a...

July 13, 2021

Trinitarian Spirituality – Part 2

A huge part of the ‘problem’ of understanding the Trinity is that we are operating...

July 06, 2021

Trinitarian Spirituality – A Series of Three Blogs

As a child, I learned from the Baltimore Catechism that God has only one nature...

June 2021

June 22, 2021

Something Greater Than Cancer

I’m sitting in the waiting room of The Radiant Light Healing Spa (a.k.a. Radiation Oncology...

June 08, 2021

A Bhagavad Gita for Bealtaine

For the Celts, Bealtaine is one of four great times when the planet becomes a...

May 2021

May 13, 2021

What Does It Mean to Be Created “In the Image of God?”

The Hebrew term translated as “image” (tselem and variations) has several other uses: a phantom,...

May 11, 2021

Mother Mary’s Diary

I recently had an image of the major events in the life of Mother Mary...

April 2021

April 05, 2021

Falling in Love – Rising in Love

She hadn’t expected it would end like this. It was still difficult to believe it...

March 2021

March 23, 2021

Hail, Homo Narcississimus

The essence of personal evolution – psychological and spiritual – is that we use ‘uncomfortable’...

March 03, 2021

How a Basic Income Begins to Heal Social Division

The perception of society as a pyramid of wealth in a world of scarcity fosters...

February 2021

February 10, 2021

Pareidolia – Selecting the Reality of Love

Reality is in the mind of the beholder. This is true not just of our...

January 2021

January 12, 2021

Crossing the River Lee

I explained to somebody in a therapy session that it is important to test new...

December 2020

December 28, 2020

A Child’s Christmas in Cork

Snail mail was costly; postage to the North Pole was prohibitive for most of us,...

December 09, 2020

How Does Spirit Speak?

In the Pentecost story, Babel is undone. The miracle was both in the speakers and...

October 2020

October 27, 2020

When Soul Met Body — Re-Calibrating The Genesis Fall

In 'A Place Between Heaven and Earth," I describe my fall as a descent from...

October 06, 2020

Ciotógs and Lefties and the Like

When I was a child in Ireland, every village had “characters” who, through their behavior,...

August 2020

August 05, 2020

God’s Only Begotten

What if, as a day-old newborn, you found yourself in the loving embrace of a...

July 2020

July 21, 2020

Why “All Lives Matter” Isn’t About All of Us

"Black lives matter.” No, "all lives matter.” Both statements are obviously true, yet some strange...

July 14, 2020

Is God Really A Father?

Before Jesus, no other great religious thinker had ever called God “Father” - and not...

July 01, 2020

Mea Tulpa, Mea Tulpa, Mea Maxima Tulpa!

An image from childhood, of repentant Catholics beating their breasts, confessing their guilt and proclaiming,...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

The First Cause of All of Humanity’s Problems

At this point in history, the capability of our human species has reached a level...

April 2020

April 21, 2020

Original Sin

What is our exile from the Garden of Eden about? 'Original sin’ was not about...

April 07, 2020

Quarantined! Cell Mates or Soul Mates?

Right now Gaia is giving us time to think. Each and every one of us...

March 2020

March 25, 2020

Coronavirus – Crucifixion and Resurrection

Coronavirus, coming as it has, during Lent, feels as if Mother Earth is giving us...

March 10, 2020

The Transcendentals

"We experience truth, goodness, and beauty now and we experience ourselves defending and advancing them—that...

March 03, 2020

Becoming A Christ-conscious Karma Gobbler

The moral dimension of karma is very complex; one with which all of the great...

February 2020

February 25, 2020

Karma 202

In everyday life, we all assume that all experiences – inner and outer – have...

February 11, 2020

Karma 101

Karma is a great resource which allows us to learn from our mistakes and build...

January 2020

January 28, 2020

My 20/20 Vision for America in 2020

Each one of us needs to realize that who we become over the next ten...

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