Mysticism and Religion
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Spirituality | 14 Comments »To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not mourn.'... ...
Dear Madeleine
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 Posted in Books, Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Spirituality | 6 Comments »Madeleine L'Engle has passed on. Although really the most appropriate thing to say would be "Congrats!", I do find my eyes getting a bit moist thinking about it. Why? Well, that's a long story, but I've got plenty of time. Let's ...
Who’s your Daddy?
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 Posted in Bible / Sacred Texts, Spirituality | 8 Comments »Luke Skywalker loses his mother moments after his birth, and, raised by Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, thinks himself an orphan. Dorothy Gale (in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz) is an orphan raised by Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. Peter Parker, ...
Mysticism and sexuality
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, Spirituality | 15 Comments »I want to thank everyone who commented on my last post. I also want to clarify and dig deeper into part of the huge area I addressed in it. What I was really wondering when I asked "why is ...
sex
Sunday, August 5th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, Spirituality | 16 Comments »Ah, so I got your attention! Yesterday, I wrote my first poem in Esperanto... unfortunately, I neglected to save it on my computer, and when my machine did one of its random reboots, it was lost and I haven't been ...
Exotheism
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 Posted in Nonduality, Spirituality | 19 Comments »I recently got a call from an old friend whom I hadn't heard from in ages. He and I were part of the same radical Pentecostal campus fellowship a couple of decades ago, but I got a sense that his ...
Whew!
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Spirituality | 5 Comments »It's busy here, and will be for a while. Besides maintaining our current code, I'm studying Object-Oriented Programming, C#, and ASP.net—oh, yeah, and when I get a chance, which isn't often—Catalan. Just upgraded my system's RAM today, since it had ...
Hofstadter and this last week
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, Nonduality, Spirituality | 7 Comments »This week has been good. To explain it, I'm going to have to start with my college days. During my undergrad years in El Paso, I was in an extremely conservative congregation. My desire to know God had been subverted, ...
The Other Side
Thursday, May 31st, 2007 Posted in Humor, Nonduality, Spirituality | 11 Comments »Found at Non-duality Cartoons, from a link by Pete.
Still crazy after all these weeks
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | 12 Comments »Friends, I'm sorry for my cyber-silence. There's been a subtle shift in my life, although I'm hard-pressed to explain it. Sometimes I've felt very much IN the Spirit, othertimes, no. Sometimes the weird melding of the false boundaries of ...