Irony Intrudes

Last week, I planned to kick off a little four part series here on the elements. As homage to my seemingly endless problems with water being where water shouldn’t be, I was going to start off with that element and work my way through the other three over the rest of the month. That plan [...]

An Invitation to Fellow Searchers

Things have been quiet here for quite a while. A lot of that has to do with my own re-investigation of myself, a renewal of old habits and a rediscovery of misplaced interests. Looking back, the past year was kind of sparse with personal spirtitual development. I got a little lost for a while digging [...]

Death: A Personal Encounter With The Adversary

In the past thirty years, I’ve died at least three times. These deaths I speak of are not a physical death. No, they are more of a metaphorical death followed by a glorious return to a whole new life. It is the death of one version of “I” and the beginning of a new “I”. [...]

Know Your Enemy, Know Yourself

“You are your own worst enemy” is an old saw, without question. But like many of its ilk, it holds more than a grain of truth. Nothing can mess with us more than our own mind. And here it is important to note that the mind is different from the brain in this context. The [...]

Reconciliation

We are all made up of a multitude of different parts. I’m not talking physical parts here–I’m talking the ethereal parts that are just as, if not more, important than our physical base. We have different moods, different hopes, different fears and different attitudes. And we don’t always want or need to share all of [...]