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Christian Mysticism HOWTO, Part 5
View from Outside So we are patient with others who don’t yet understand, and that would be most of the world. You are never alone, but you will often feel lonely. Rare is the non-mystic who will accept your position … Continue reading
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Christian Mysticism HOWTO, Part 4
Road Markers The fundamental commitment to Truth as something separate and ineffably larger than yourself carries a raft of consequences. There is a sense in which it is all one thing, but we have a well established framework for examining … Continue reading
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Christian Mysticism HOWTO, Part 3
The Journey No living human can show you the gate. I can only tell you there is one. But we can paint the border in bold colors. You can try to fake it. You can emulate all the subtle behavior … Continue reading
Christian Mysticism HOWTO, Part 2
Preparation There is nothing about mysticism which seeks information, nor a change of status. There is nothing static about it. You are entering a fluid and dynamic existence from which you can never depart again. You are entering upon a … Continue reading
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Christian Mysticism HOWTO, Part 1
Is the Hound of Heaven nipping at your heels? (Typically this would appear on my other blog, but I’m testing the response rate difference.) Introduction Insofar as one can offer a HOWTO on Mysticism, this assumes a Christian orientation. The … Continue reading
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Fear Fatigue
Sometimes I wonder if there isn’t some conspiracy to create false fears. We had the scare about gun confiscations once Obama was elected. Now that might happen, but it won’t be right away. People are still sucking up huge quantities … Continue reading
Can’t Walk Away
The one thing which matters most in our human existence is conviction. The model of human nature to which I subscribe assumes human nature is a trio: flesh, mind and spirit. We can’t really separate them very well in actual … Continue reading
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Responding to Official Arrogance
What’s it to you? I’ve written before there is a thread in the Covenant of Noah which permits some armed response to oppression. The point is not so much self-defense, but removing a threat to the community. That assumes you … Continue reading
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Rules of Change
With all this talk of “change” going on in the past year or so, perhaps we should take a moment to discuss something about the act of making changes itself. A great may proposed changes can be presumed to come … Continue reading
Silly Debates on Creation
Recently my surfing has taken me across a collection of discussions about Creationism and Evolution, along with the variations attached to them. A primary flaw in all of this is making it man-centered. By “man-centered” we are dipping once again … Continue reading