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Alethiology – The Religion of Truth
Generally and historically speaking there have been three major contenders for figuring out the truth -- religion, philosophy, and science. For the modern person, religion has become mere magical thinking, while philosophy is not taken seriously by anyone except...
Direct Experience Is Your Only Authority
There is something I know about you. Anything that seems to be happening to and from and through you is happening in your direct experience. Nothing you have ever experienced was outside of yourself. It's obvious but easily missed with all the beliefs about an...
The Perfect Human Being – A Short Story
There was once a human that was considered to be the epitome of humanity. One might have called him the perfect human being. He was absolutely fantastic in every regard. The whole world agreed that he was the example of what a human could become, and what everyone...
No One Knows Anything About You
We have this tendency to conceptualize and contextualize our experiences. We want to know why what is happening is happening. So we go out and seek answers, whether it's about emotions, thoughts, specific aspects of spiritual awakening, or other experiences. ...
Spirituality and Art: Art as Spiritual Practice and Beyond
Art has, for as long as I can think, played a defining role in my life, although not always consciously. And I certainly hadn't drawn the connection between spirituality and art back in the day. By back in the day, I mean the time when I had spent quite a bit...
The Mystic and The Sage – A Short Story
One day, surprised by a torrentuous rain, a wandering sage took cover in a cave. There he was surprised by another surprise -- a calmly sitting mystic immersed in a blissful state. Upon noticing the sage's presence, the mystic welcomed him. "Hello there...
Love Doesn’t Hurt, Attachments Do
That love hurts is one of the assumptions no one likes but we all take for granted. But why does love hurt? Why is the one thing that, poetically speaking, has the power to transcend time and space causing so much pain? Because it's not love we are speaking...
The Cause of Suffering in All Its Expressions
If there is one thing we all have in common is that we suffer in life. Even the ones who no longer suffer have, at some point, suffered. To be one of the no-longer-sufferers we have to get to the cause of suffering followed by a visceral understanding that...
50-50
When it comes to what could or couldn't happen many of us think in terms of probability as if probability is an actual intermediary that actually influences actual happenings. But all it really does is keep us in a limited way of thinking where we are victims of some...
Are You Crazy?
Recently, I've been, surprisingly often, asked if I wasn't ever afraid of going crazy (losing my mind), or if I am maybe not already beyond that point. Usually, this question followed a conversation about the nature of reality with a fairly open-minded individual....
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