It's said that we don't seek God but rather, when it's our time, God seeks us. I can't speak for the experiences of others, but that certainly holds true here. Truth be told I'm still routinely astonished to learn that almost no one thinks about God the way I do. (Mind you, when I speak [...]

'It's all about consciousness.' A line from a favorite long-dead teacher that beautifully sums up the entirety of existence. I can attest to the truth of that statement. Or, more precisely, consciousness can attest to it. Consciousness writes this blog and consciousness 'reads' it. And the consciousness that reads it is either in a state [...]

It is said that as our journey inward intensifies, that which we seek - God, Truth, etc. - goes ahead of us 'straighten the crooked places.' Part of that process is to remove relationships that distract from that journey. Not so long ago that loneliness would have disturbed me. It would have become a matter [...]

In a desolate parking garage. In a lonely office chair. In a desert canyon. On a moldy mattress in the Amazon. In bed one lazy morning. Just some of the places where the whispered urgings of the soul delivered a subtle but undeniable Truth. We mistakenly label these moments coincidences, synchronicities, epiphanies, kismet. But like [...]

If we're fortunate during this thing we call life, something nudges us enough to suggest we're asleep. Not asleep in the way we're accustomed to thinking about it, but asleep in the sense that we're moving through this life utterly oblivious to what is really going on. Usually the source of this nudge is suffering, [...]

How miserable everyone is. A global pandemic, political and cultural unrest, economic struggles - the list of challenges is seemingly endless. Makes you want to stop the planet and get off, doesn't it? I remember similar days when I didn't want to get out of bed, when I couldn't escape the deluge of negative thoughts. [...]

Words are increasingly difficult to find. I stare at this blank screen unable to articulate what continues to unfold here. Perhaps they will come. In most cases, they don't, or I delete the ones that do. If they do, you'll be reading this :-) I can attest, yet again, that if you persist in this [...]

On the rare occasions I check the news or social media channels, I see nothing has changed. Those on the Right are convinced the nation is awash with anarchists forcing the nation into some kind of lawless, socialist welfare state; those on the Left are convinced the nation is teeming with racists hellbent on creating [...]

You and I don't know what we are. Don't know how we got here nor where we're off to next. Yet we are forever tossing around our opinions about this, that, everything. Look at the world news. Fear dominates, all of humankind paralyzed by the idea they'll come down with COVID, become seriously ill, die. [...]

Man oh man, did you hear about.....? And depending on what comes next, we're off and running with our passionately held opinions on the subject. I think they call it 'triggered' these days. The more volatile the topic, the stronger our opinions. "Who do they think they are?!" "What is happening to this world?!" "We [...]