Cultures either meet or they clash. And the clash can be a war among equals or a ravaging of the weaker by the stronger. The encounter between the Celts and early Christianity proved to be a fairly seamless and peaceful cross-fertilization. Storytelling is the great medium of their intersecting. Read more
In Gaelic the “Caol Áit” or Thin Place is a location/time where the veil between the mystical and the mundane, between the sacred and the secular is diaphanous. For the Celts these were entry points into other dimensions. Read more
Babies arrive as warriors, storming the Normandy Beaches of Maya, giving their lives to liberate the human spirit. Read more
It seems currently popular within pop-psychological, spiritual, and New Age philosophical circles to bash on the "ego". But, is the "ego" such a malevolent force after all? Read more
Who wouldn’t want a little more “heaven” and a little less “hell” in life? Read more
As souls, we make “pre-conception contracts” that involve volunteering to incarnate. Why agree to life on a planet that has earthquakes, tornadoes and tsunamis? Why agree to a body which is inevitably going to get sick, age and die? Read more
I wonder how the boy Jesus gradually figured it out. I think maybe he was looking closely at the darting yellow eye of a bird. Maybe he felt it looking up from the road at the gently-rocking, leprosy-ridden bodies along the crags of the hills nearby. I think when he hung playfully by his clasped hands from the neck of a friendly camel and looked straight into its hyphen-shaped pupil, he noticed it. Maybe even while flinging pebbles into the... Read more
There were three crosses on Calvary that day. And I don’t mean the ones on which Jesus and the two “thieves” were hanged. Read more
The evolution of human consciousness has reached the stage where we can now intervene in our own further evolution. This is both a blessing and a curse. Read more
There is a not a single cell in our physical bodies that originally belonged to each of us. What then can physical resurrection possibly mean? Read more
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