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Archive for March, 2007

See Peaceful Warrior Free

Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 8 Comments »

Anyone who knows me well knows that in my opinion, far and away the best movie of 2006 was Peaceful Warrior, based on Dan Millman's beloved autobiographical novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior, which has been a portal to the ...

The Swimming Pool

Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Posted in Love, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 3 Comments »

In January, 2006, I had an experience that I sometimes think of as "the empty holodeck." It was jolting and mildly disorienting, but I consider it one of the most important spiritual experiences of my life. This last January, I ...

Punctuate this.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | 9 Comments »

Add the missing punctuation to Jesus' saying: take heed that no one deceives you for many shall come in my name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many If you're like most people familiar with the verse, you probably punctuated ...

Meeting a good friend for the first time

Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Teacher / Practice | 2 Comments »

Just a few years ago, that heading would've been complete nonsense to almost everyone, and it still gets a smile from most people. Yes, there were HAM radio operators who struck up friendships with people they had never met, and ...

Steve Pavlina on the Law of Attraction

Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 5 Comments »

The "Law of Attraction" is definitely buzzing around the memosphere now. The movie and book The Secret deal with the idea, although rather superficially, almost conveying the idea of magical wish fulfullment. That approach has been roundly and properly criticized, ...

The Sweet Pain

Monday, March 5th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | 2 Comments »

In 1998, I began writing a long poem, an epic poem, on the life of Christ. After about six weeks, I stopped writing it (though it didn't leave me). What I was unprepared for was the intensity of his Presence ...