When your crazy new age friend tells you that everything is vibration, she is not wrong. But when your hard headed scientific friend tells you that “miracles” are impossible because they “break” the laws of physics, he is likely wrong. Continue reading
Reintegrated consciousness, the Kingdom of God, or the Primordial state requires a rebirth in the Spirit and Water, to be able to hear the Spirit and reflect it accurately. This is how the Word expresses the Silence. Continue reading
The vow of obedience is the practice of silencing personal desires, emotions and imagination in the face of reason and conscience; it is the primacy of the ideal as opposed to the apparent, the nation as opposed to the personal, humanity as opposed to the nation, and God as opposed to humanity. Continue reading
I think that I belong not in this place Continue reading
Just as we celebrate and anticipate the Incarnation of the Logos on the material plane, so, too, we want to prepare for the analogous birth within the human soul. Continue reading
The Church of John is in your heart and mind, especially when you are joined with two or three others. So to any self-appointed guardians of orthodoxy, I ask “What’s it to you?” Continue reading
A myth refers to that which is inexpressible, that is, something that can only be expressed indirectly by means of symbolic representations. Continue reading
The Self or Atman, manifests itself as a soul (jivatman) in the living form of the individual human being. It is covered in a series of successive sheaths, or koshas, representing phases of its manifestation. Continue reading
The gnostic sense is the same as the contemplative sense. Contemplation follows concentration and meditation; it begins as soon as logical and discursive thought is suspended. Continue reading
What is a thing? Continue reading