How precious the gift of Silence
How precious the gift of SilenceThat runs throughThat runs through.How precious the gift of SilenceThat runs through all outer things.How precious the gift of spaceThat imbuesAnd imbue...
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Reflections on the zeal of youth and the Dark Night of faith.
I have spent the last ten years of my life on a spiritual journey. It has taken me through zeal, into fundamentalism, into burnout and eventually losing my faith. I spent years as an a...
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Response to a friend
The faith of your youth was not sufficient,You have outgrown it.Like discarded clothesYou have cast it aside,And trampled it. As the hesitant adolescentDisdains the toysAnd books of...
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Holy Spirit as Goddess
I was musing on the Mystery of God today, and how all human philosophies can only partly help us to understand who or what god is. Over the past few years I have been led to connect...
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On becoming a Mystic
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame”-Salman Rushdie In this post I want to explore what it’s like identifying as a m...
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Becoming all fire
Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, “Abba, as far as I can I say my Little Office. I fast a little. I pray. I meditate. I live in peace and as far as I can. I purify my...
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Mental Clarity
There’s something that happens when you have been meditating for a while. It’s probably mentioned in the majority of books on the subject, but doesn’t really make sen...
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The importance of the Divine Feminine
Growing up as a fairly conservative Protestant, it wasn’t until my mid-life crisis of faith that I even heard of the subject of the Divine Feminine. Of course I was aware that an...
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The Chalice and the Blade in meditation
The concept of the Chalice and the Blade is a core understanding at the heart of earth-centered spirituality. In one way, it can be understood as the interaction between the masculine ...
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What lies beyond the Silence
I have tried and practiced many forms of meditation in my spiritual quest. I have written about them, and taught them. In these days, I have been drawn more and more to the simplest...
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