Sometimes it helps to step back and view a whole nation as if it was a person. Right now we are told that America is in crisis, and solutions are being offered from every quarter. When a person is in crisis, the search for a solution runs into conflict and confusion. The worst scenarios run through one’s imagination. Reason wars with emotion. We see the same in America today. The impulse to throw reason out the window is expressed through Sarah Palin, who makes a very nice living, thank you very much, by throwing tantrums in public. The impulse to blame somebody, anybody is expressed through the Tea Party. The cool-headed police officer or firefighter who comes to your house to handle an emergency is expressed through President Obama. As for Congress, it expresses the country’s refusal to accept that a crisis exists, since for all its hot air, Congress is dedicated to doing the same thing it has always done. (more…)
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Non-theistic God
Do you believe the virtual domain is what we could call the non-theistic God which transcends any one spiritual tradition? If this is true, that no religion can claim “spiritual dominion” over this perennially-expressed God-concept, then do we indeed have before us a potential ultimate reconciler between religions in the long run?
Desires of the Body
Your meditation on realizing one’s deepest desires may lead to the recognition that one desires deeply and passionately things of the body. Intellectually one knows these are temporal desires and one ‘should’ desire and strive for God and God alone. But the truth remains, confusion results.
