One difficulty I see with the spiritual elites' game is its elevation of those with the "correct" thinking, experiences, actions, and so on over those without that blessing. This accommodates the amazingly few (the remnant, the elect, the chosen, etc.) with such experiences, a...
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"Equality" has become the battle cry of protestors, activists and rioters, but before it was a public idea it was a spiritual ideal. Thomas Jefferson summed up thousands of years of thinking on the matter thus, "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are e...
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Daring is an initial element in most accomplishments. It’s been said that “all glory comes from daring to begin.”
When setting out to be daring, the first step is to emulate non-conformists and be a step out of the mainstream thinking. Horace wrote that, “The power of daring anything they fancy ha...
Continue reading...When I was younger I was very religious. I was earnest, idealistic and, truth be told, more than a little gullible. Over the years, many of those hard edges have rubbed off, and I'd like to say, "Good riddance!"
One of the things I have pondered recently is the role of magic in religion and life i...
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