tractsofrevolution

True Story

On one side are believers, who read the story of Jesus’ incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection as an account of revealed journalism. Everything in the narrative happened just as described, to the exact detail. How not? It’s the Bible, after all. On the other side are atheists and the general population of nonbelievers, including devotees ofContinue reading “True Story”

Necessary Delusion

Check this out. Everything around you includes you in its higher wholeness, and what is within you grounds you in deeper oneness. Harmony and communion are the special terms designating these distinct dimensions of Reality – around and including you, within and grounding you. The concept of harmony requires you to be centered in yourself.Continue reading “Necessary Delusion”

Spiritual Fitness and Our Human Future

Just as we might go to a gym to work out, or into the hills for a hike, we have a basic understanding that improving our fitness requires immersing ourselves in environments where the activity is sufficiently strenuous but not too much to manage. Of course, if we never exercise, our muscles will lose toneContinue reading “Spiritual Fitness and Our Human Future”

Four-Square Spirituality

Ego sucks. I don’t mean that as a judgment, but as a simple statement of fact. I happen to believe that our separate center of self-conscious identity – ego (Latin for “I”) for short – represents a transformational breakthrough in the evolution of human consciousness, and we need it to get around in the world.Continue reading “Four-Square Spirituality”

Deckchairs on the Titanic

Are you familiar with that metaphor of arranging deckchairs on the Titanic? The message is that while we are busy piddling around with minor things, the really Big Thing needing our attention is going down – taking us and our trivial fixations with it. Besides being a helpful call-back to our priorities in business, family,Continue reading “Deckchairs on the Titanic”

The Truth of What You Are

This identity you are managing inside the world is not what you really are. What you are is deeper and more essential than who you are. What you are is a human being – or better yet, a human manifestation of being, while who you are is about your personal identity – the wardrobe ofContinue reading “The Truth of What You Are”

Educating the Human Spirit

In a recent post entitled The Vocational Clarity Table of Elements I made a case against a growing sentiment which regards a college education as a waste of time and money. Of course, I had to preface my argument by first acknowledging the dismal statistics – 80% of college students change their major multiple times,Continue reading “Educating the Human Spirit”

How to Avoid the Trap of Going to College

When I visit students in classrooms as the manager of career services on a college campus, I stand in front of them, introduce myself, and gesture as if I am pulling open my shirt to reveal an imaginary superhero insignia. Greetings! I am here to save you from the trap of going to college. ThisContinue reading “How to Avoid the Trap of Going to College”

A Way Through the Mess

In the degree we each lack peace within ourselves, the power dynamics between us will be misaligned, dysfunctional and mutually damaging, allowing for very little possibility of love lifting us beyond our differences into selfless goodwill and genuine community. The worldwide spiritual wisdom tradition known as Sophia Perennis holds a communal vision for humanity, saved,Continue reading “A Way Through the Mess”

First Things

If we don’t really understand ourselves, how can we know what we need to be healthy, happy, and whole? In our ignorance we are left groping for what feels good, for what might help us get ahead of the game, or at least distract us from the anxiety of not knowing what “the game” isContinue reading “First Things”