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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘spirit’
The steady breath
Posted in Flute Music, tagged breath, flute, shakuhachi, spirit on February 28, 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 [...]
Feeling better
Posted in Flashes, tagged board meeting, fountain, Jesus, living water, problem, spirit on January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A fountain of living water that rises up in us and that never runs out. The water of the spirit. “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water” (John 7:38). Heart, belly, guts. All are apparent synonyms in the old languages. It is all about feeling better. First I need to raise myself [...]
Merkaba
Posted in Flashes, tagged Drunvalo, light body, Merkaba, southwest, spirit, star, star tetrahedron on December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I am connecting the strands now. The Merkaba geometric shape, as given by Drunvalo, is the same shape that is found on countless Southwest designs. Merkaba: Southwest:
The unemployed
Posted in Flashes, tagged angels, initiative, Lorna Byrne, spirit, The unemployed on October 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a baffling story, or piece of information if you wish, about angels. In Lorna Byrne’s book Angels in my Hair, she writes that there are angels everywhere. Some are constant guardians to people. But a lot of angels go around unemployed. They are looking for work, waiting for people to ask them for help. [...]
Outline of a talk on Life After Death
Posted in Life After Death, tagged heaven, Heaven and Hell, life after death, spirit, Swedenborg on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Life After Death, by Stephen Muires, M.Div., muires@yahoo.com This presentation on Life After Death has three sections. Part one: the purpose of our life before death. In looking at life after death, we are not going to look at death at all! Because if we can’t even find out why we are here, the rest [...]
Core of the teaching: part two
Posted in Life After Death, tagged body, death, eternal life, inner self, internal self, life after death, soul, spirit on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Part one of this post. This is the idea: there is something inside us that is not physical. Simple. What is not physical has the ability to survive the death of the body. Swedenborg calls this “the internal man.” This is a bit off-putting if you’re a woman. But it’s really just a translation issue: [...]
Core of the teaching: part one
Posted in Life After Death, tagged death, God, grief, life after death, NDE, resurrection, spirit, spiritual connection, suffering on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is part of a series of communications about life after death. How is it possible that we live after death if our bodies stop functioning and then rot in the grave? I think you’ll agree that this question must totally be answered for any belief in eternal life to be solid. And so there [...]
I will miss you
Posted in Life After Death, tagged death, God, grief, miss you, NDE, resurrection, spirit, spiritual connection, suffering on June 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is part of a series of communications about life after death. I really like the Grand Canyon and certainly want to go back. But I don’t miss the Grand Canyon. It is still there, after all. Has been there for millions of years, in fact. I am not much given to missing people either. [...]
All shall be revealed
Posted in Life After Death, tagged birth, death, fear, God, iceberg, life after death, NDE, resurrection, spirit, suffering, unity on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is part of a series of communications about life after death. So, in a few short words, what happens to us when we die? And do we have reason to be afraid? After death all that is deeply personal and private will gradually become plainly visible. Our deepest thoughts and feelings will be worn [...]
Sensitive point
Posted in Life After Death, tagged birth, death, Eden, eternal life, garden, God, life after death, NDE, resurrection, spirit on June 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is part of a series of communications about life after death. Asking a question can be compared to plugging an unknown appliance into the wall socket, hoping that way to find out what the appliance can do. The question, Is there life after death? likewise plugs into a source of energy, intelligent energy, that [...]
Justice be done
Posted in Life After Death, tagged birth, death, Eden, eternal life, garden, God, integrity, life after death, NDE, resurrection, spirit, suffering on June 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is part of a series of communications about life after death. Life after death is linked to the idea of or the longing for justice. We see justice in the world, but many things are left unjust, unpunished, unrewarded. So we imagine this justice to take place after death. However, with all those many [...]
Meaningless life
Posted in Life After Death, tagged birth, death, eternal life, God, life after death, NDE, resurrection, spirit on June 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Part of a series of communications about life after death. I heard the following argument once in an Eckhart Tolle talk. It’s about the nature of death. We live intensely individual lives. We are unique beings, we feel we are unique, we know we are unique, and we see this uniqueness also in all people [...]
Lack of info
Posted in Life After Death, tagged birth, death, eternal life, God, life after death, NDE, resurrection, spirit on June 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is part 2 in a series on life after death. So we were going to talk about something else. Anything but life after death. Give me a break already… We don’t have information about life after death. Well, no, there ain’t any, so that might explain the lack of info… Religious people always refer [...]
The Bleak Prospect
Posted in Life After Death, tagged birth, death, eternal life, God, life after death, NDE, resurrection, spirit on June 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is the first in a series of communications about life after death. Should be a popular topic. If it’s a topic at all. After all, there is no life after death… The bleak prospect is that of life ending at death. That was the view, the conviction, the certainty that I lived with for [...]
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Angels Are Calling My Name
Posted in Sermon writing and preaching, tagged celestial, heaven, mantra, prayer, regeneration, religion, sermon, spirit, vision on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
(Sermon by Stephen Muires, Feb. 2011.) Today I want to describe a vision. A vision that is at the core of religion, of every religion, and at the core of our lives as human beings. It is a vision of heaven in us. You may have heard people say that heaven is inside us. It [...]
Crystals and change
Posted in Flashes, tagged crystals, God, heaven, meaning, reality, spirit on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Something is good if it feels good. Right or wrong? “To the extent that celestial and spiritual forms of good are present in natural, worldly and bodily forms, the latter are good and are blessed.” (AC 1420) It is almost worth reading that line a couple of times. What does it mean? So physical objects [...]
Do we do spirituality? (part one)
Posted in Flashes, tagged church, heaven, Lord, religion, spirit, spiritual growth, Swedenborg on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is the New Church spiritual? Or is it a religion, or even (just) a church? How do I know if I am in the New Church? Is a New Church person religious, or a church member, or spiritual? Or all of these? Does the modern understanding of spirituality match at all with a New Church [...]
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 [...]
