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Thursday, April 7, 2005

The Power of Words, Hubris and The Truth

Sticks and stones may break bones, but don't underestimate the power of a word or two to really mess you up! Words are one of the pimary accesses to the brain and the mind. Once inside, there are all kinds of mischief to get into, playing among the semi- and unconscious reservoirs of memory and processing. We play deliberately sometimes, in this place we know so little about, and that is so vital to our well-being and functioning as human beings, and we mess around as if we can do no harm. We... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 2, 2005

A Table of Contents

I have changed the display settings on this blog to place 10 topics per page to make it more accessible. These are the topics on them, from the oldest to the newest: 1--If you are disappointed in God... 2--A Model of the Human Being: I don't have a soul... 3--Death and Past Lives 4--It's a Puzzlement! 5--More of My Model of Past Lives... 6--I Used To Believe In Old Man God... 7--A Circle Within A Circle Within A Circle 8--Defining Terms: Soulmates 9 / 10-- The Parts Model 11--What God Has To Be,... Sign in to see full entry.

Boundaries and Bubbles

I was reminded today that the force which makes a bubble happen in the air or under water is the fact of a bit more airpressure pushing out against a bit less pressure, to the point where the pressures equalize. Like those inflatable domes that are sometimes rigged over tennis courts, held aloft by nothing but a greater air pressure inside than outside... Like the slight beathing out-- the application of air pressure--through your nostrils when you swim under water that keeps the water from... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 31, 2005

Amidst the national discussion of the sacredness of life,

I offer this ru-run of my very first piece on Blogit. Life Finds a Way There was a time I knew exactly who I was, and where I had to go. But I am older now, and know that I know nothing of the sort. Not who I am, or who I'm meant to be, and most certainly I do not know where I'm bound. It could be anywhere. It could be anywhen. I don't know. I don't know anything. Oh, I have my suspicions, and plenty of intentions, but if I know the least bit of Truth, it's that all such things go awry, for that... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Again, Centering: Finding the Light of You

Hello! If you've been playing along with this whole grounding and centering thing, here comes the next bit... A quick review: Grounding... plugging your energy system in to its little jack at the center of the Earth via a cord of energy that begins at the back of your first chakra... (Hear the little click as it connects?) Centering... gathering your personal field of energy, aka your aura, around you, to a comfortable level somewhere in the range of 10-15 inches from your skin... acknowledging... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 28, 2005

The Tree Falls... The Sound Happens Whether I Hear It or Not...

I have this notion that we are always living in the Kingdom, as Manboy expressed it in a recent comment, but that most of the time it seems most of us are blind and deaf mostly, and so unaware. I have my days of better or worse awareness of it, to be sure! And some times I perceive it intellectually, other times, intuitively, and then, when I write about it, those two ways of knowing come together for the purpose of communicating. The thing about science, is that it has the stricture that... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, March 27, 2005

According to the Book of Nicodemus

one of the so-called Lost Books of the Bible, Jesus kept busy on His three days between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. He went, according to Nicodemus, to the Gates of Hell, and opened them, announcing to all there that they did not have to be there anymore. Hell was a different place in those days, of course. The cultural image we have these days emerged from the Middle Ages, and was established by the pen of Dante Aligheiri in his Divine Comedy: The Inferno. But in the time of Jesus,... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Finding Your Own Center

Hello! Here's the next part of centering, promised several days ago... The model of the human energy system that I am working with here is a simple one: seven centers, or chakras in a vertical line, ascending from the First, or Root Chakra, all the way up to the Seventh or Crown Chakra. There are other chakras than these seven, but we don't need them for this discussion. (There are other modesl of the chakra system, too, but again, we don't need to get complicated. The point is, they are all... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, March 21, 2005

We are-- ergo: EGO!

I love my ego. I hope you will come to love yours, too. Poor Ego gets such a bad rap! Ego is your self-identity. It is how you see yourself. Self image. It is not a BAD THING! And if you get lost in it, or begin to believe and act as if it is the only aspect of you that matters, or it gets wounded and inflamed, then, yes, you have a problem! But we could not function in this world without some boundaries, some sense of who we are, apart from everyone else. To kill that sense of self, of... Sign in to see full entry.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting.

It is about letting go, and accepting that what is, is; what has been, has been. There are so many things in a lifetime that call for us to practice a little forgiveness-- sometimes a lot! Insults, slights and deliberate attempts to hurt us... Someone else's mistakes that we end up paying for... Accidents, failures, inconveniences, assaults... We are so programmed to balance scores, rather than to forgive debts. To take what we feel is due us rather than to give what someone else needs more. In... Sign in to see full entry.

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