depth

Just as there is a depth to the Bible which a literalist reading does not begin to comprehend, so it is with the Qur'an. The eye that sees the surface of the water does not begin to comprehend the denizens of its depths.

Wrestling with the Angel (Genesis 32: 24-32)

What does it mean to wrestle with the Angel? For certain, it means to not retreat into one’s secluded room of favored icons nailed to the walls. It means to risk one’s soul in standing firm, toe-to-toe, mirror image of the Angel, countering every move. Hopefully this grappling where one’s hip is put out of joint will turn into a tango of smooth embrace, where leading and following merge into strong content. No dead relaxation here though. The music and the dance can change at any time.

what jesus might have said

What Jesus might have said:
Sink or swim on your own, you buzzard vampires,
drinking my blood and eating my flesh!
Quit wearing my hand-me-downs,
weave your own no-seamed robe!
Stop snacking on your everlasting supper,
jump up on your own cross!
Claim your own sunship in the cosmos,
hope no one builds a religion around your ass!
Walk around the walls you’ve built
and horn blow those suckers down!
Let’s go! Get with it! If you want to follow me,
I went that ‘away!

wellspring

I bought this Bible in June, 1957 just prior to leaving for Parris Island boot camp. It went with me all through the Marines and is still with me. Well read, it speaks to me ever more deeply even now.

as souls of this world

As we consider the infinite number of worlds in the cosmos, each world governed by its inhabiting souls, we might wonder how we are doing here, with our world. As souls of this world, we are faced with darkness and division, confusion and hostility, with forces of annihilation. We are a relatively new world and the outcome remains uncertain. As souls of this world, we embody the Light. It is our true nature and is not only our means of protection but of transformative projection. As souls of this world, we radiate Light into this world. Light is not oofy-doofy fluffy-puffy. Light sends darkness scurrying.

And lest you neo-Taoists disapprove with insistence that the light and dark interflow, I speak of the Light which illuminates all disapproval: the Light beyond both light and dark. This is not a philosophical issue. This is Life.

As souls of this world, we are called into action. The action is simple and powerful. We continue our action every moment with every breath. We embody Light.

lab coat fetus

The spiritual world surrounds and gives birth to the material world. Trying to prove or disprove the existence of the spiritual from the realm of the material is like a fetus trying to prove or disprove the existence of its mother.

in tune

Prayer is getting ourselves in tune. Becoming attuned requires some degree of dropping off or letting go, how much depending on the amount of barnacles we have accumulated on our soul's core intimacy.

cups of water

Any thought form claiming to be the exclusive truth has not opened to the awareness that the cup does not change the nature of the water.

freaking jesus

What's the big hangup about our Source assuming human form? We ourselves are continuously making the external internal and the internal external. If we can do it, surely the universe can do the same.

the tail wagging the dog

If we allow 0 to represent quality and 6 to represent quantity, we have 0 with a tail on it, and in this quantitative time, where quantity rules over quality, of 666, we live in the time of the unholy trinity of the tail wagging the dog.

666 is not only the sign of the ascendance of the tail (quantity) but of uniformity. And as that seer and visionary, Rene' Guenon, points out: uniformity is not unity. Uniformity is the ruthless advance of "the reign of quantity" which leads ever onward to greater separation. Replaceable parts is the order of the day and humans are nothing but parts.

This quantitative world is accelerating and making the earth over into its own image as it goes. This juggernaut will destroy itself as it gets so far from Quality it can only implode. Thus the end of this Kali Yuga, a brief pause, and the cosmic cycle begins again but newly.