I’m a bit of a fol­lower of Paul Tillich, and in his Dynam­ics of Faith he describes faith as “ulti­mate con­cern” and a cen­tered act that involves the whole per­son. He also says what it is not. It is not believ­ing the unbe­liev­able. Our beliefs may change over our life­time as mine cer­tainly have, yet […]

As I learned it, myth builds worlds. It cre­ates a world view that encom­passes both this world and the spir­i­tual world. It is some­thing that springs forth from the col­lec­tive uncon­scious or spir­i­tual plane man­i­fest­ing the arche­types or gods and god­desses in a lan­guage we can relate to. These uni­ver­sal truths are revealed accord­ing to […]

It’s a beau­ti­ful day in par­adise. The sun is shin­ing, a breeze is blow­ing, I’m lis­ten­ing to misia on the stereo. Life is good. I’m feel­ing bet­ter after a cold that lin­gered for two or three weeks.
We’re get­ting ready to begin con­struc­tion of a stick built kitchen and bath addi­tion to our yurt. We’ve been using […]

My new web design is almost ready to pub­lish, just going over final changes and details. I’m also work­ing on an addit­tion to my home, so I have plenty to keep me busy. A really bad spring cold really slowed me down the past cou­ple of weeks, but I’m get­ting bet­ter now. Sum­mer is here […]

Regret­tably, I have been spend­ing more time lately work­ing on learn­ing my new Mac­Book, espe­cially find­ing and learn­ing a web design and devel­op­ment pro­gram, than on writ­ing. The OS X is def­i­nitely a more sta­ble plat­form than Win­dows. I did a total restore on my old XP lap­top think­ing I might just use it […]

God-dess refers to the Divine Cou­ple, Radha Krishna, God­dess and God, Energy and Ener­getic, the Ground of all Being, the Cause of all causes.
They are made known through Sri Krishna Chai­tanya and his fol­low­ers, var­i­ous other devo­tional sects, our innate know­ing and wis­dom, and in fact, they are the sub­ject of the teach­ings of the ages.
While […]

Ben Reist, my reformed the­ol­ogy pro­fes­sor, said “If a lit­tle Bud­dha rubs off on Jesus, and a lit­tle Jesus rubs off on Bud­dha, so much the bet­ter for both of them.” As an eclec­tic uni­ver­sal­ist, I firmly believe in the cross pol­li­na­tion of reli­gions as a means of com­ing to a higher under­stand­ing of truth. […]

In The Bha­ga­vat, Its Phi­los­o­phy, Ethics and The­ol­ogy, Bhak­tivin­ode Thakur says, “Lib­erty then is the prin­ci­ple, which we must con­sider as the most valu­able gift of God. We must not allow our­selves to be led by those who lived and thought before us. We must think for our­selves and try to get fur­ther truths which […]

I just fin­ished read­ing The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dog­matic Reli­gion to a More Authen­tic Con­tem­po­rary Faith by Mar­cus Borg. I have been impressed with his other book, Met­ting Jesus Again for the First Time, in which he reimag­ined what Jesus may have been like. In The God We Never Knew, he takes on […]

Well, I got my Mac­Book and am able to write again with­out hav­ing to deal with com­puter prob­lems, although I’m still in the learn­ing stage with this.
You may won­der what I’ve been doing the past cou­ple of months. I’ve been doing a re-examination of my faith, going back to beginner’s mind, let­ting go, embrac­ing doubts and […]