NOW WITH IMAGES/ILLUSTRATIONS! ------------------------------------------ "The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." - Albert Einstein [SCIENCE] ------------------------------------------...
How spiritual and transcendent is your thinking and behaviour? Where would you place yourself on the spiritual landscape? This questionnaire lists 72 statements about spirituality and asks you to rate them in...
Some mystics, following their transcendent spiritual experiences, claim unity or oneness with God - to the point of declaring that they themselves are Divine or an Incarnation of God. This short essay explores...
Psalms Code III - The Ark of the Covenant The third book of the Psalms Code series, Psalms Code III focuses on the years that reveal the whereabouts of the Ark of the Covenant! How could Psalms, a book that...
Throughout time, the shaman has carried the responsibility of escorting the souls of kindred members to the realms of beyond. Today this service is still greatly needed. Although the knowledge of how to accomplish...
Tannisho" ("Lamenting the Deviations") is a record of the words of the Japanese Buddhist monk Shinran, follower of Honen and founder of True Pure Land Buddhism in Japan. It was originally written in the 13th...
The idea of detachment, of withdrawing from the world and society, of abstaining from worldly interests and pleasures, even denying the self, has a long tradition in spirituality and is expressed in many religious...
Non dualism, typified by Advaita, is often criticised for failing to address morality and failing to direct spiritual pilgrims in terms of how to act in the world. It is even accused of detaching spirituality...
COPY FOR ZEN AND THE ART OF JUDAISM A long term Zen student and practicing Jew, who cannot let go of either explores the ways in which Zen and Judaism practice illuminate and enrich one another. Zen deepens...
The 150 Psalms [“Tehilim” in Hebrew – “Praises”] allude to world events destined to take place between the years 1901 AD and 2050 AD, as we have illustrated in Psalms Code (2009) and Psalms Code II...
The Lit-Crit Take: A genre-bending, character-driven thriller about memory, identity and making peace with the past. The Pure Plot Pitch: Sure, we all know about arrogant, self-centered media executives. But...
Inspired by real life events, TUCKER THE SPIRIT CAT is the story of a great love between a girl and her cat, and how the love transforms when Tucker the cat moves from the physical to the spirit realm. This...
Being a Christian is about having a spiritual relationship with Jesus the Christ, with God, and is not about legalism in which one tries to fulfill the laws, rules or goals that men have set in any religion.
In this third volume of 'Spiritual Questions', Pilgrim Simon continues to seek answers to various common questions on the theme of spirituality. The questions covered in this volume include: What are Angels...
'Essays on spirituality' consists of over a dozen short and medium length articles on spiritual themes. They were written as the author was coming to an understanding of his own mystical experiences and the...
Some religions hold to the idea of Karma: the idea that a person almost endlessly recycles through death and reincarnation until at last they achieve release. But I consider that at death the Essence and Ground...
In the course of engaging in spiritual exercises such as contemplation, prayer, mindfulness and meditation some people may experience an immediate encounter with the Divine - a mystical experience in which they...
Some spiritual traditions argue that the world, indeed, the entire universe is just an illusion. Is this correct or does the world and the universe have real substance? What do we mean by the term 'real'? Taking...
What does it mean to live the Christian life? A lot of emphasis today is put on what Christians believe and on defending those beliefs against opposing views. There is also a great deal of emphasis of worship...
Drawing from his own personal experience as a sufferer from bi-polar mood disorder and as a person who has had a number of mystical, spiritual experiences, Pilgrim Simon explores the themes of religious mania,...
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