Do you live in Stockholm? You are invited to: “Is disease our responsibility?” A sermon on health and sickness. Sunday 4 March, 11.00 Tegnérlunden 7, Stockholm, Swedenborgs Minneskyrka By Stephen Muires Language: Swedish From the talk: Sickness is not a light-hearted subject. Not something to make jokes about. And so, today we are going to [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Is disease our responsibility?
Posted in Flashes, tagged chronic conditions, disease, health, sickness, Swedenborg on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The steady breath
Posted in Flute Music, tagged breath, flute, shakuhachi, spirit on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Blowing the bamboo flute is very challenging. The shakuhachi seems almost alive and changes from day to day. Not inanimate matter at all. When I play I listen to the sound, its tone, its steadiness, its roundness, its balance, its depth. It all reflects exactly how I feel right this moment. To hold a steady [...]
I already knew this
Posted in Flashes, tagged bread of life, feeding, God, life after death, living water, worship on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I have heard a complaint. About some of my preaching and sermons. “It didn’t feed me. I already knew this.” I have heard this after a sermon on life after death, whose message was: there is life after death. Obviously, given the complaint, the experience was lacking in some way for the person involved. The [...]
The healing flute: part two
Posted in Flute Music, tagged healing flute on February 25, 2012 | 2 Comments »
This week I have been adding crystals and gemstones to selected flutes. I bind or glue the stone in front of the sound hole, so that the air and the sound gently hit it. See the pictures below. I am going on the understanding that each stone is attuned to some natural and beneficial energy, [...]
Heart fields
Posted in Flashes, tagged heart, heart math, toroidal field on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Amazing, simple, beautiful. This implies more than is obvious on the surface. How we are in our hearts is what matters, what radiates, what connects.
You Cannot Force Heaven
Posted in Flashes, tagged high expectations, small steps, spiritual growth on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This Sunday, Feb 26, 2012, at the Swedenborgs Minneskyrka. 11.00. Tegnérlunden 7, Stockholm, near Rådmansgatan T-bana. The service is in Swedish! Interlude music: Native American flute. Summary of this Sunday’s talk: We all know more than we live up to. We all want more than we have. Knowledge is a map, not a key. Walking [...]
The impeded stream
Posted in Flashes, tagged Berry, life, mind, silence, Tolle, understanding on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I have The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle) lying beside my desk. Every day I pick it up with the intention of reading a bit. The page that is folded has an opening line about the mind’s effort at understanding being the very reason why I don’t understand the core of life. So I never [...]
Car keys
Posted in Flashes, tagged Abraham, Copenhagen, meditation, Stockholm on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Paraphrasing something from a very recent Abraham seminar (LA, 2012): People say, I don’t have time to meditate, I am too busy right now. This is like saying, I am too busy right now to look for my car keys. Therefore I will walk from Stockholm to Copenhagen.
An internal route
Posted in Flashes, tagged internal, intuition, perception, Swedenborg on February 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Another interesting quote that opens rather than closes, includes rather than excludes, points the way rather than blocks the road: “People who recognize what is good and true on the basis of perception receive that intuition from the Lord by an internal route. Those who recognize it on the basis of doctrine receive their knowledge [...]
Heart meanings
Posted in Flashes, tagged heart, love, Swedenborg on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a puzzling quote from Swedenborg’s Arcana Coelestia: “As long as the heart is sound the surrounding organs can go on living. But when it is weak, deterioration sets into them all and the person dies.” (AC 468.2) This is clearly not true. A person can die from pneumonia, cancer, or countless other diseases that [...]
Crystal medicine wheel
Posted in Flashes, tagged crystal, medicine wheel on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A healing flute
Posted in Flute Music, tagged breath, Cartwright, healing flute, radio, Second Voice, spirit, vibration on February 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I am currently exploring a whole new dimension (for me) to flute playing. This was set in motion after commissioning a Healing Flute from Second Voice Flutes in the UK. The Healing Flute, notes and dimensions There is the sound and there is another dimension that we can’t hear. Compare to the Japanese shakuhachi: there [...]
Letting off steam
Posted in Flashes, tagged anger, boiling, death, noble anger, steam, Swedenborg, vastation, water on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There is a difference between expressing anger while radiating it at the world or at others, and expressing anger and owning it. The first one is like boiling water, letting off steam that scalds. With the second one I accept the anger and the issue as mine, not belonging to anyone else. To express anger [...]
The four emotions
Posted in Flashes, tagged emotions, feelings, growth, heaven, hell, Swedenborg on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There are four basic emotions that lie at the bottom of every other emotion. They are fairly easy to locate and so are a useful tool for becoming aware of the feeling layer in oneself. Joy, anger, fear, sadness. I hear people sometimes say that three of these are negative and only one is good. [...]
Belief is just perspective
Posted in Flashes, tagged belief, faith, perspective, Truth on February 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Belief is just perspective. In other words, if I have a belief that does not make it an absolute truth, written in stone. No matter how deeply I believe in it. A belief is a perspective. Not: “just” a perspective, no, perspectives are great, they are useful. They are in a way all we have. [...]
Flute stories: part two
Posted in Flute Music, tagged Anasazi, crystals, flute, healing, Native American Flute, shakuhachi on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Flute talk and concert, appr. 45 minutes long (can be adjusted). See background description here. Title: The Spiritual Flute or The Healing Flute A presentation in four parts: The Love Flute, from North America. Legend of the origin of the Native American courting or love flute. Connection to nature and mother Earth. The Meditation Flute, [...]
Shift program in Stockholm in Swedish
Posted in Flashes, tagged Shift, spiritual growth on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
http://youareanotherme.wordpress.com/shift/ This course is meant for people who have no previous knowledge of the New Church or of Swedenborg.
Wax to the max
Posted in Flashes, tagged encaustic, wax on February 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Last night my wife and I went to a demonstration of encaustic wax. Yes, that is spelled correctly. Google it… A woman sat at a table just a few feet in front of a small audience. She used a tiny electrical iron, 16 blocks of colored wax, and small postcard size pieces of paper. We [...]
State preaching
Posted in Flashes, tagged angels, inspiration, preaching, speech, state on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I am completely relaxed. I feel easy, responsive, open and reactive. Standing there in the vortex of angelic energies. I am communicating, two-ways, from me to the other, from the other to me. I am connected to a source of thought, a source of feeling, a source of perception. I pluck the words out of [...]
Snake flute
Posted in Flute Music, tagged David Cartwright, Native American Flute, Second Voice on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The snake flute from Second Voice Flutes arrived today: Here is what it sounds like: http://guitarlight.com/mp3/flute/snakeflute.mp3
