Embracing the Spirit of the Holiday Season
The waiting process actually has three distinct phases…separation, transformation, and emergence. The life of the soul evolves and grows as we move through these three cycles. The process is…a spiraling … Continue reading
How to Find Your Spiritual Symbol
The type of spirituality to which we are drawn is not a matter of chance, since we are born with a particular spiritual constitution that radically affects our spiritual orientation. … Continue reading
Finding the Sacred in the Siracusa Duomo
“We all have moments in life when we know we are touched by a force that is larger than ourselves, something very real that transcends our experience in the ordinary … Continue reading
On the Path to God with Spinoza
“Spinoza’s adherence to immanence…refers to the idea that this worldly existence is all there is, that the laws of nature govern everything and that God is entirely equivalent to Nature. … Continue reading
The Fallacy of Romantic Love: A Review of “her”
“Romantic love is the single greatest energy system in the Western psyche. In our culture it has supplanted religion as the arena in which men and women seek meaning, transcendence, … Continue reading
Exodus: An Ancient Call to Spirituality
Not the animal world, not the plant world, not the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery. Man is that alien presence with whom the … Continue reading
Embracing Our Scrooges in Our Inner Mandela
“Instead of defining ourselves by what we are not, we feel a oneness with all. We begin to sense our connection with all people and things. … it is the … Continue reading
The Heroine’s Journey: A Review of the Movie “Gravity”
The moon flight as an outward journey was outward into ourselves. —Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By During the past two weeks, I’ve seen the hit movie of this fall, … Continue reading
In the End…?
“It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.” —-Sebastian Barry, … Continue reading
In the Beginning
“We must separate from God before we can reunite with God.” —-Robert A. Johnson (Balancing Heaven and Earth, p. 192) “Each generation has to make its own discoveries of … Continue reading
Think Jung 