The Soul Is Not ‘Within’
If we must retain the notion of a soul, it can no longer be of the intangible ghost within; why strain to hear the soprano and remain deaf to the entire orchestra?
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DUMPSTER DIVINING
I’m not actively seeking enlightenment, I am just taking out the trash, but enlightenment comes when it will. The spirit knows what we need, and it finds us.
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Twelfth Pilgrim
A green light approached. To my amazement, a little man in a square hat emerged from the underbrush. He clutched a blade of grass on whose tip glowed a tiny lantern. He had mutton chop whiskers and brass spectacles.
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Your Body is an Ancestor
You do not need to build an ancestor altar. You do not need to trace your bloodline back ten generations. Ancestry isn’t a lineage. It is a nonlinear tangle of animacy with multiple points of entry. For me, ancestry extends beyond the human. It is rhizomatic, rooting into different species and deep time.
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These Blues
I am a man who spends his waking hours scouring for signs, starlight chatter, mosaics of broken conversations, every outward sign pointing inward, a volunteer transcendentalist. My morning prayer is may the messenger come, this day.
Read MoreThe Braided Way
The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.