Within and without…
Reflections on reading Bill Moyer’s interviews of Joseph Campbell in “The Power of Myth:” We see ourselves today as external to nature, just as we see ourselves as external to religion. We think we can just...
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Agnosticism, practically speaking…
I participated last night in facilitated conversation on spirituality (a word I find overused and not very useful, but a useful conversation none the less…). While introducing myself, I said I am agnostic, but the...
Read MoreOur Philip, who art in Britain…
My last post reminded me of something I stumbled on last year. A group of villagers on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific believe Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is a divine being. This Prince Philip Movement is only...
Read MoreThe need to believe…
A friend of mine told me recently that her teenaged son has suddenly begun asking about churches. Since she has raised him and his brother areligiously, it surprised her. He hasn’t yet asked to begin church-going but...
Read More“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard…”
…(1 Corinthians 2:9, KJV) I’m reading Fundamental Truth: The Common Vision of the World’s Religions, by Huston Smith (HarperCollins 1976). He purports to examine singular threads of belief woven through all...
Read MoreNote From Fátima…
In Fátima, Portugal, two days now, and thinking again about religion and humanity. Indeed, one cannot help but do so here, where the entire town has evolved into a living irony, an immersive experience to the selling of...
Read MoreThe Dollhouse…
So last Sunday, my neighbor sat down with his morning paper and never got up. They found him hours later, but from his new perspective, it could have been light years. He had been a neighborhood fixture, one of those guys that...
Read MoreReflections on “The Gnostic Gospels,” by Elaine Pagels
I’ve long wondered about gnostics and gnosticism, an early rival movement to Orthodox Christianity. Numerous passages in the New Testament epistles refer to it obliquely (and condemn it harshly). So I sought out...
Read MoreOh, the humanity!
I’m following news about the latest radical Islamist atrocity, this one in Manchester. And I see once again that most ubiquitous term of self-deception by our species: “Oh, the inhumanity…!”...
Read MoreI’m feeling extremely mortal…
…these last two days. I know why, but I’m reticent to admit it. I’ve spent the last several days reading Pagel’s “The Gnostic Gospels,” and I’m struck by the many ways people...
Read MoreOn T.F. Powys and “The Soliloquy of a Hermit”
Man is a collection of atoms through which pass the moods of God…” T.F.Powys, “Soliloquy of a Hermit,” (Hardpress Publishing, Miami. Originally by G. Arnold Shaw, N.Y., 1916) On first read, this work...
Read MoreMore on Powys and belief…
I’ve been wanting to comment further on the T.F. Powys quote, “Belief is too easy a road to God.” If we replace the word “God” with “meaning,” Powys’ intent becomes clear. Much of...
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st, March 2016