Those of us who want to do good works in the world may say we are giving selflessly, but if it’s born of a desire to do goodself then is it selfless? If it’s a choice that we could “grow out of” or change our minds about when it becomes an inconvenience or an impediment […]
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 […]
Okay, class, gather ‘round, gather ‘round. I’m about to teach you something. You paid for spiritual lessons, right? This is an online course. Today, we’re going to learn about spiritual learning. What is learning where spirituality is concerned? Let’s define spiritual learning as revealing more and more of the whole of a topic in increments […]
Are musical notes fractals? They appear to be a finite auditory set that repeat infinitely in pitch; however, physicists are still debating whether notes can be bent and chopped infinitely, or if there is a limit to the workings of sound waves. In concentrating on this problem, we miss a greater point that transcends the […]
One trap that New Age, fundamentalist Christian, and other religious speakers often fall into is using scientific evidence in physics to back up their truth claims. Subsequent discoveries in science often render their evidence moot, and this is used to debunk the spiritual stuff being communicated. It’s a shame because the problem isn’t always that […]
Why do we name other organisms? I call the trees swaying in the header of this section Dancing Trees, on account of their joyful, fancy dance moves. I imagine they look just as cartoonish and lively on ‘shrooms. This here is Ribbon Candy Plant because she reminds me of those awful candies that used to […]
Our full, whole, true nature is No-Thing, which is to say that we are non-existence and existence. We can see this in the following logical exercise: If we strip away all things in existence, what we’re left with is nothingness. But nothingness is a concept and concepts exist in intelligence—except for this one. This concept […]