How many paintings of Mary have you seen where, with eyes piously downcast and a lily held modestly to her breast, Mary obediently answers the announcement that she had been chosen to be the mother of God, with a simple ‘fiat’ (God’s will be done)? I don’t for a moment believe that is an accurate portrayal of Mary. Read more
Two tectonic plates - Homo Sapiens and Homo Sapiens Sapiens - are clashing and creating earthquakes that will eventually divide the globe into two new subspecies I’ve dubbed Homo Sociopathicus and Homo Spiritualis. One clings tenaciously to personal ego and tribal gods, while the other commits fully to love and unity. Read more
Money. especially in Western culture, is so intimately tied to health, happiness, security, and opportunity, that it is hard not to respond to it as an actual object of control — a thing or an entity which we must continually consider, defer to, and work for. Read more
A vision is simply a dream you have while you are awake, and a dream is simply a vision you have while you are asleep. In Celtic thinking, liminal spaces are called, ‘thin places” (in Gaelic, ‘caol áiteanna’), antechambers to other dimensions, conferring altered states of consciousness on the courageous pilgrim. Read more
In his ultimate human feeling of abandonment, Jesus calls out for his father. Jesus, the man, is feeling a separation from God. Who among us cannot relate to that? Read more
Watson and Crick’s double helix of DNA, whirling around itself, is very much an alive ladder, not just an inert artifact fashioned once and then abandoned. It is the Jacob’s ladder of Genesis, touching Earth at a “Caol Áit” (Thin Place) that acts as a portal between the mystical and the mundane. Read more
Paradoxically, we cry out in anger against the Law of Impermanence, while, at the same time, changing everything in a vain attempt to keep everything the same. Read more
Since the United States’ heyday (sometime around the middle of the 20th Century), citizens have watched the promise of America steadily slip away for growing numbers of people. America was a “land of opportunity”, a level playing-field where hard work paid off, and anyone could grow up to be president. Read more
February 21, 1955 was the day of my “fall.” I was in a light green room, hanging upside down. This guy wearing a white mask over his face had grabbed me by my feet and whacked me on the behind! I screamed as I took my first breath inside this ‘thing’ called a human body! Read more
You could say that the conductor is the only member of the orchestra who does not make music; or you could say that the conductor is the one producing all of the music. But, his baton is no mere timekeeper, rather, it is the awakener of the eyes. That is what the wind is. The wind is Spirit, it is breath and it is life. Read more
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