We have a word for the love of wisdom and it is “philosophy.” But only the unwise love wisdom, for the source of wisdom is not outside of you. Wisdom becomes knowledge, becomes an externally communicated mental construct, for those not emanating wisdom. Wisdom becomes an it, a something you collect and marvel over, not […]
Many of us are enamored with impressionists, actors, comedians, and our one funny uncle who can do impressions of politicians well. A great impression of someone is like a magic trick. A great impression includes voice, body language, intention, and an understanding of the victim—I mean honoree’s inner voice. To be impersonated is considered an […]
DISCLAIMER: The following does not describe all researchers and searchers at the outset of their journeys, but enough of ‘em to make the end point. No one searching for anything was harmed in the writing of this essay. Not even Bono who still hasn’t found what he’s looking for. The difference between searchers and researchers […]
NOTE: I’ve been working on this one for a while to publish it this week. It is in no way related to the politically-motivated attacks perpetrated by conservative terrorists in America over the course of the previous week. There is an odd truth to the term “liberal elite” when it is used to pit uneducated […]
We push and we push, in various ways, through our science and our not-so-science. We push to the outer limits of the universe, discovering what’s possible, inventing around it and through it, in search of… in search of…. In search of what? In search of someone or something to communicate with. Aliens. Life. Intelligence. But […]
We want to be known. This is why being a televised person in a plugged-in culture is so appealing. It’s why school shootings happen. It’s why we leave suicide notes. It’s why social media “likes” are replacing affection and praise. We want to be known by God, not understand ourselves as Oneself behind the dualistic […]
On the one hand, Truth is uncompromising. On the other hand, you have the free will choice to completely ignore it. What’s this about? Truth is living. Truth is the action of one who is God-alive. So there is no compromise in how such a one behaves and what such a one does in the […]
One must learn listening. One must exist in a state of thanking, because everything another gives is gifting. One must be trusting, totally trusting in another and one must be trusting in oneself to find truth. Discovering through open, honest interconnecting within truth makes for greatness. One must be opening, not closed off, not stuck […]
When the Christians were exhausted from war, God saw fit to send the Indians smallpox. – said an unnamed friar regarding Cortes’ invasion of the Valley of Mexico, as quoted in Douglas Preston’s book, The Lost City of the Monkey God. The trappings of saying that the same kernel of Spirit is contained in […]
Duality. What is duality? What is nonduality? We hear these terms all the time in spiritual talk. What do they really mean? Not the fluffy, fancy coats we put on them, but the actual shoulders—whose are they? Two shoulders. One body. Duality and nonduality. We get the metaphor, right? But something deeper lurks there, arguably […]