Steve’s Musings



Spirituality vs. Religion

So I went to the Pagan Pride Day yesterday and had a good time over-all. I was invited to give talks at two other places. I must admit I was uncomfortable at the interfaith roundtable. The president of the Interfaith Dialogue Association is a friend of mine and a Hindu. He invited me to be […]


Common Ground

Tomorrow I’m going down to Kzoo to hang with the pagans. It’s Pagan Pride Day there with a big festival in the park. I’ll give a seminar in the morning on “Walking In the Light” and in the afternoon I’ll be part of an interfaith roundtable discussing our similarities. The rest of the day will […]


9/11

This is the second anniversary of when we had the shit scarred out of us and we agreed to trade our freedom for security. Two years into the war on terror, wars in two countries that we have focused on and how many that have gone under the radar. Are we any safer? Are we […]


Rape!

Well, I’ve just been listening to “N.Y. Times” op-ed columnist and economist Paul Krugman describing the rape of America on NPR’s “Fresh Air”. He makes a powerful case about how the Bush administration is engaged in a huge give-away to the rich while gutting the government and its ability to provide services for the poor […]


Religion

What a scourge on the earth. Taking people’s spiritual longings and fosilizing them. It’s been said that going to church on Sunday is a good innoculation against a real spiritual experience. The spirit is wild and free yet people want to domesticate it. We’re asked to remember the spiritual experiences someone had long ago and […]


Abundance

Abundance is everywhere around us and within us. God has created this world with everything we need to live life abundantly. Our hearts are overflowing with love, kindness, generousity, joy and peace–unless we have hardened them and cut ourselves off from the source of all life and love. The world is overflowing with all the […]


Summer

Late summer day. Sun shining beautifully on the trees. Dead cardinal lying on my deck. Flowers in bloom. Some plants beginning to fade. Grass needs mowing. Life happens all around us, in us. We are part of the endless cycle of life and death. Our fate is connected to the fate of every other creature […]


Now!

How does one live life? One day at a time. The past is over and gone. The future is not yet. Here we are in the present. It’s really all we ever have. Yet so many people squander the present by lamenting over the past, reminising about the glory days, worrying about what’s going to […]


A Voice of Dissent

How does one crying in the wilderness get heard today? By blogging and maintaining a website? Being a voice of dissent, iconoclastic views and alternative realities does not make one real popular. Does one sell out, conform and try to fit in or live with integrity? At this point in my life, I think it’s […]


Who Are You?

Just be your self. Be natural. Whoa! Who knows how to do that? We’re so condititioned from childhood that we forget who we really are. Many go to their grave not knowing who they are. Are you seeking? Are you trying to realize who you really are? You should be. Don’t allow yourself to be […]