Back from Montréal
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in Language, My Life, Peace and Justice, Seen on the Web | 4 Comments »I've just returned from a trip to Montréal for a joint conference of the United States' and the Pan-American Esperanto associations. I had a wonderful time, and my only regret was that I had to leave early for travel and ...
Why does Spirit want to be embodied?
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Quick Thoughts, Seen on the Web, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »Here's just two reasons:
The Quieting Blogosphere
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Seen on the Web, Site log / Geek | 15 Comments »OK, I'm blogging less, and I've admitted it. But what about you? Out of my formerly blog-active friends only Carl and Bob keep on at their impressive posting paces. It seems to me that most of my blogging friends have ...
Thomas Merton Square
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Nonduality, Seen on the Web, Teacher / Practice | 2 Comments »The Louisville Metro Council last month named the intersection of 4th and Muhommad Ali Blvd. "Thomas Merton Square," in honor of Fr. Thomas Merton's epiphany. To my knowledge, this is the only occasion of any government recognizing an event related ...
We Manipulate God for YOU!
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Humor, Jesus / Christianity, Seen on the Web | 8 Comments »OK, I grew up (mostly by choice) in Evangelicalism, and when I started branching out from that I became aware of the abuses of that kind of religion, as well as of religion in general. To put in bluntly, I've ...
One Word
Friday, December 7th, 2007 Posted in Humor, Seen on the Web, Spirituality | 16 Comments »Proving reincarnation among human beings is challenging and controversial. However, proving reincarnation (redigitalization?) among blogs is much simpler. Case in point: Eternal Awareness, one of the wisest and most beautiful blogs (or even websites) that I've ever come across, is ...
I succumbed!
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Seen on the Web | 5 Comments »It's Darrell's fault. And Trev describes it. I'd almost describe myself as allergic to the oh-so-trendy social networking stuff, particularly online communities... MySpace strikes me as a kid's crayon drawing on the wall, Zaadz is nice, spiritual and, well, boring. ...
National What-Writing Month?
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in My Life, Seen on the Web | 4 Comments »I learned recently that National Novel Writing Month is upon us. Every November, thousands sign up publicly for the challenge of writing a short novel, (or at least 50,000 words of a longer one) at nanowrimo.org. The challenge is inspiring, ...
Ubi Caritas
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Seen on the Web, Spirituality | 10 Comments »Bob Griffith of Hypersync posted a link to this YouTube video of a boy in the Netherlands singing about the love in his unconventional family. Aside from the obvious questions it raises, such as why the Christian Right is ...
Steve Pavlina on Nonduality
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006 Posted in Mind, Nonduality, Seen on the Web | 7 Comments »Although its over an hour, this is worth listening to. Steve Pavlina uses the freedom of the podcast format to explain his idea of the "Law of Attraction" at length, and in the course of doing so, nonduality as well, ...