Many Ways To See Aloneness
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” ~Johann Wolfgange Von...
Read MorePosted by James Reade Venable | Nov 28, 2022 | Featured, Visual Art |
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” ~Johann Wolfgange Von...
Read MorePosted by Karen Maezen Miller | Nov 21, 2022 | Applied Spirituality, Featured |
Of course you want it to be good. You’d like the mashed potatoes to keep warm, the stuffing to...
Read MorePosted by Kitty Yanson | Nov 15, 2022 | Editor's Picks, Featured, Healing |
My first AA job forty years ago was to make coffee, hauling plastic pitchers of water to the...
Read MorePosted by Luke Eastwood | Nov 7, 2022 | Braided Perspectives, Featured |
Whether our sources be The Egyptian Book Of The Dead, the Koran, Tao Te Ching, Jewish scriptures, the (many various) Gospels, or New Age spirituality –the road to answers to all the eternal questions that irk humanity are there for the taking. The essence of holy scripture is not about dogma, dogma has developed in the aftermath of these sacred revelations through the institutions that grew up around each particular religion. The essence of holy scripture is gnosis – the imparting of spiritual knowledge to humanity and the guidance of each individual’s journey of the soul towards a true understanding of that knowledge.
Read MorePosted by John Backman | Nov 1, 2022 | Braided Perspectives, Featured |
We have to broach the wordless, though, so we can share it. With November, I can pull you by the hand and say, “Come see.” The wordless is invisible, so I must tell you. This may explain my longtime religion, its libraries of eloquent prayers and liturgies. For me, they are foliage: dazzling me with beauty, confusing me with clutter.
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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.