POUR OUT THE CREATURES: How To Humble The Ego
I want us to take a look at an excerpt from Meister Eckhart’s Book of Divine Consolation and see how it relates to our egos and the true eye. Our spiritual awareness of being has so much to teach us. If you’d like to learn more then click the link below.
RECAP AND SYNOPSIS In the last post on Unlocking The Logion In The Gospel of Thomas we did a sort of contemplative meditation on Logia 3 and perception. We discussed how Christ taught the Kingdom of God being inside of us and outside of us as a means of highlighting how our consciousness shapes our […]
Begin by coming into yourself. Settle in and bring awareness to your mind and body. Take note of how you feel and allow yourself to simply be. Shift your mind to your breathe. You don’t have to change your breathing pattern, just breathe naturally. Bring your attention to your body itself. Feel the air coming […]
. ZECHARIAHS OLIVE TREES “Then the angel who spoke with me returned and aroused me, like one awakened from sleep. He said to me, “What do you see?” I replied, “I see a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on top of it. There are seven lamps on it, with seven spouts on each […]
Our mind is a temple. Our hearts are a temple. As our hearts and minds become more in tune with each other we start to live a more meaningful and balanced life. In a nutshell, that’s all a spiritual life is- a more balanced and peaceful life. Becoming a more spiritually sound person isn’t nearly […]
When we reflect on what it means to be born again, or what King David would’ve called being renewed in Spirit, it helps to have a story we can relate to. Luckily, the person who wrote the above verse happens to be one of the most enigmatic characters in the Hebrew Scriptures. That means we […]
So the last time I brought this verse into play was in a post called The Bride & The Bridegroom. Now, in that post I alluded to a deeper understanding of how aspects of self relate to Divinity but shied away from the more occulted aspects of the doctrine. Partly because of how people view […]
I know it’s easy for us to seek quick fixes nowadays. We literally have instant everything delivered to our doorsteps within 25 hours. Convenience stores at every corner stocked with all our favorite goodies. Instant gratification is the catchphrase of our era. While our society is, in many ways, a marvelous achievement a lot of […]
A lot can be said about the spiritual path. We could intellectualize until we’re blue in the face or we can follow a simple commandment: live in love. Everything else is just window dressings. One simple form of living in love comes down to us through the Jesus Prayer. Monks going all the way back […]
There’s a fair amount of what some would call Magick to my spiritual path. Seeing life as cyclic in some ways means respecting the cycles of seasons. No one needs a calendar to achieve this sort of practice. All they have to do is look up into the night sky and pay attention to the […]
Mystical Mindstate 