Category Archives: Religious Experience
2 Corinthians 4 (NIV)
Treasures in Jars of Clay 1Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. … Continue reading
Of all places…
Underwater Labyrinth Originally uploaded by Xhyra Graf. The underwater labyrinth at Support for Healing in SL. Gotta find ways of reaching balance in any place you can. I suppose being blue could mean that you have gills somewhere…
William James
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/james/#5 5. The Varieties of Religious Experience Like The Principles of Psychology, Varieties is “A Study in Human Nature,” as its subtitle says. But at some five hundred pages it is only half the length of The Principles of Psychology, … Continue reading
Let go; let God
Clarity… and it is this thing that some people do not believe Christians have. The clarity achieved when the whole fits together, to watch the pieces that seem to be randomly floating in the air come together in perfect fit. … Continue reading
Axis Mundi
Some pictures can be found on Ana Galano’s Blog [eventually I'll get my act together and all my artwork, etc. will be consolidated and uploaded to this site]. Here is a bad snapshot of one side of it at my … Continue reading
Cause of Suffering
Cutting Off the Causes of SufferingTo free ourselves from suffering fully and finally we have to eliminate it by the root, and that means to eliminate ignorance. But how does one go about eliminating ignorance? The answer follows clearly from … Continue reading
samadhi
The commentaries define samadhi as the centering of the mind and mental factors rightly and evenly on an object. Samadhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification. The … Continue reading
The Specious Present
How do I transcend the subjectivity of my experience? The infinitesimal point becomes an infinite circle. Within the creative process, truth allows me to walk around and through it, to traverse the circle, to see more than one aspect at … Continue reading
Religious Experience
Brief on all, special attention to numinous…concentrate on mystical. Caroline Franks Davis, in The Evidential Force of Religious Experience, has outlined types of religious experience. She has divided the experiences into six categories: interpretative, quasi-sensory, revelatory, regenerative, numinous, and mystical. Though … Continue reading