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On Sunday I took two walks. One before church and one after. The first took me through the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver's urban core. I set up the vestments and chalices for the morning Mass.... read more
8/11/2017 8:09:48 PM by Jason M. Brown
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Having grown up in Orange County, California, malls will always feel familiar, and wild rivers exotic. read more
8/10/2017 5:31:02 PM by Jason M. Brown
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The high tide pushed the gull feathers into a straight line along several hundred feet of beach. There was no sign of the body. Only the inscribed threshold of those delicate feathers on the rocky... read more
8/7/2017 12:53:55 AM by Jason M. Brown
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Hear How To Shift Into Freedom
Today marks the new release of the unabridged audiobook Shift Into Freedom, read by Loch Kelly! The book has been a bestseller and won a number of Best Books of the Year Awards. However, this kind... read more
8/1/2017 9:04:29 PM by Loch Kelly
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Non-Yogis Like Me Should Not Practice Yoga. There, I Said it.
In a popular online Yoga for Complete Beginners video, the instructor begins by inviting participants into a Sanskrit-named pose. We, the viewers, are going to relax, to ‘watch’ the breath, ‘create... read more
7/14/2017 5:17:48 PM by Jason M. Brown
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Normally, local awareness is identified, attached, or obscured within the thinking mind and ego function. Yet we cannot know awake awareness through thinking; our contracted, isolated sense of self... read more
7/10/2017 8:03:35 PM by Loch Kelly
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Sketches of the Three Kingdoms of Christianity
“Our Father in Heaven. Your Kingdom Come.” This familiar prayer has been spoken by Christians for over 2,000 years. But over the span of Christian history, we seem to have directed the longing this... read more
7/3/2017 1:13:50 PM by Jason M. Brown
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Master of None's 'Religion' Episode and the Representation of...
In the episode entitled ‘Religion’ in the much anticipated second season of Aziz Ansari’s show ‘Master of None,’ Aziz’s character Dev Shah finds himself forced to pretend he is an observant Muslim... read more
6/20/2017 12:54:52 AM by Jason M. Brown
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Suffering from Ego-Identification
On the physical level, if we forget to eat, we will die, so our body registers our need for intake of food as hunger pains. Hunger creates unpleasant feelings of dissatisfaction that motivate us to... read more
6/15/2017 3:45:46 PM by Loch Kelly
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"Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy." --Psalms 98:8 read more
6/12/2017 8:12:18 PM by Jason M. Brown
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We need Holy Breath now more than ever. read more
6/6/2017 3:09:46 PM by Jason M. Brown
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The small sense of self feels separate, and this location makes us feel contracted, isolated, and in our heads. The experience of opening up during the process of awakening first brings... read more
5/30/2017 4:03:47 PM by Loch Kelly
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Why We Need the Cursing Psalms
Today in my morning prayers I read Psalms 58. If you are not familiar, Psalms 58 is one of the more vicious "Cursing" Psalms, wherein the poet-author begs God for vengeance on his enemies. Some... read more
5/29/2017 4:42:25 PM by Jason M. Brown
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