When I was younger (in the 1980s) the New Age movement was whacky, exciting and irresponsible. Today in 2012 the movement under the same name is a lot more mature and responsible, as well as effective. It is also larger. Much larger. A friend of mine in Arizona researched the “definition” of New Age. She [...]
Posts Tagged ‘belief’
What is New Age
Posted in Flashes, tagged belief, New Age on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
Called by God
Posted in Flashes, tagged belief, calling, church, God, heaven, life on October 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
How do you know that something is God calling you? It never leaves you alone. How do you know, sitting in church, that God called you there? It is the house of God. How do you know you’ve been called by God? You feel moved to stay away from bad shit, and to do something [...]
Saying yes quickly
Posted in Flashes, tagged belief, God, heaven, Lord, prayer, spirit on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.” (Rumi, Persian poet and mystic, 1207-1273 AD) Is that a good idea, to say yes quickly? Yes, bypass those thoughts that insist on analyzing first. Bypass those spirits in my head that hate [...]
Other words
Posted in Flashes, tagged belief, Jesus Christ, Lord, poetry on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Are there other words that give the essence of Jesus Christ? Other words than those in the Bible or the Writings of Swedenborg? Well, of course. Doesn’t everybody know that? Like these: “I think continually of Him who was truly great. Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s history Through corridors of light where the [...]
Immortality
Posted in The Sacred, tagged belief, faith, holiness, immortality, regeneration, spiritual growth, Swedenborg, Truth on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(A section from my dissertation on “The Sacred”) Freedom gives us immortality. This refers to our spirit, not our natural body. Our spirit is already immortal, regardless whether we are good or evil (DP 96.7, 324.3, 324.8). Our will and understanding, whose nature and essential activity at heart are freedom and rationality, are directly from [...]
Humanity
Posted in The Sacred, tagged belief, church, God, holiness, Lord, providence, religion on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(A section from my dissertation on “The Sacred”) When we say we are human we mean that we have a will and an understanding. This is more essential than talking about the design of the human body. The body is called “an obedient servant” (DP 124.2), whereas “the will and the understanding … make up [...]
Rituals
Posted in Flashes, tagged angels, belief, heaven, presence, ritual, Swedenborg on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The function of the ritual and the myth is to let you experience it here, not somewhere else long ago.” (Joseph Campbell) A ritual creates an experience, a simulation of something not from this earth. “Rituals were holy from correspondence with the holy things in heaven.” (AC 4581) Do people have to understand the ritual [...]
Towards a new life (part 2)
Posted in Flashes, tagged attraction, belief, The Secret on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Follow-up from part 1. I have been doing the exercise of creating my day in advance for about a month now. I fill one small notebook page right after getting out of bed in the morning. I write down whatever comes to me and word it in the way of positive expectations and certainties of [...]
Towards a new life (part 1)
Posted in Flashes, tagged attraction, belief, The Secret on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I wake up in the morning, my pattern is to feel dull, scattered, even stressed to get going. My thoughts are like wild horses. I can’t seem to stop them or direct them. It is only as the day is well underway that some peace creeps in. So… the good thing is that peace [...]
“If it ain’t funny it ain’t spiritual.” (Dannion Brinkley) Yes!
Light and dark
Posted in Flashes, tagged belief, Lord, regeneration on May 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Everything that belongs to the Lord is compared to day, because it is full of light. Everything that belongs to me is compared to night, because it is full of darkness.” (AC 21, free translation) Nothing like truth to cheer me up early in the morning, facing a new day…
Forcing Truth
Posted in Sermon writing and preaching, tagged belief, church, faith, Jesus Christ, Lord, religion, spiritual growth, Swedenborg, Truth on May 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sermon (May, 2010) Gen. 12: 6-9, Mark 4:26-29, AC 9588. The Parable of the sower (cell: hook, where is the kingdom?) The kingdom of God. We long for this kingdom. We strive for it. We may not know exactly what it means, but we know it is something good. Where is it? What is it? [...]
The power of thought
Posted in Flashes, tagged attraction, belief, healing, living right on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Any thought continuously held by a person tends to the establishment of the corresponding condition in his body.” (Wallace D. Wattles) Freedom and reasoning power. The two first things that the Divine gives to human beings in the overall governing of life (DP 73). But it’s more. It seems I am more free than I [...]
Haiti Help Page
Posted in Flashes, tagged belief, charity, The Secret on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is how Haiti can be helped Acknowledge but set aside everything you know about the disaster that struck Haiti, January 2010. Then hold in mind the following affirmations of the truth: Haiti is a beautiful place. It is rich, gentle, warm, and clean. Its water is blue. The people are kind, optimistic, and hospitable. [...]
Far be it from me
Posted in Flashes, tagged belief, The Secret on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am having this curious experience. After seeing the film “The Secret” I have become convinced of its reality. And the reality of its message. Now I am using the Secret, and it is changing my life, my external surroundings, my relationships, my work and study, and my body. It is changing everything that is [...]
