There are a lot of phases in life. We start out as absolutely dependent infants, and we move on. Some of us change phases as we move on. Some of us get stuck in phases as we go along. It’s been said that you can’t really begin to study and/or understand mysticism until you’re about […]
A lot of people spend their time studying scripture, and they become experts at scripture and what’s involved in scripture. Some even get to the point where they memorize scripture and can repeat the words in the books. However, those words have to be applied. Those words have to be used for some end. Even
We all know that there are certain elements that affect our consciousness, certain substances. For instance, if one were to drink alcohol, their consciousness would become affected. If one were to take drugs, their consciousness becomes affected. It’s like a cloud comes over your consciousness. The word we use usually is torpor. And you enter
Physicists, in trying to explain the nature of things, come up with many different ideas and theories and explanations. Of course, they’re trying to explain why things are and how they are. Recently, they’ve been talking about alternate universes and the fact that there are the possibilities of universes sitting right next to each other
It’s been said that if people truly understood the first of the ten commandments, there wouldn’t be a need for the other nine. And it’s also been said that because people don’t understand the ten commandments, we now have libraries full of books with laws explaining behavior. The point being that if you can get
In this world the usual way you obtain things is through some sort of barter. You work, in exchange for your work, you get money. In exchange for money, you buy things. So, there’s an exchange. You give, you work, you obtain money, and you get things. This is the usual way that things work
The question of control in our life is one we’re constantly dealing with. What is the extent of our control? What do we understand as to control? What actual control is there? How do we react to fear? How do we react to kindness? How do we react to all of the different inputs that
There are many different modes that we need to be able to be in in order to traverse this path. We need to be empathetic towards others. We need to be able to feel others. We need to be able to feel within us what other people feel. We need to feel the pain of
Imagine if you had a job, and your boss sent you somewhere to accomplish a specific task. And when you got there, you got involved in about ninteen other things and came back and then told the boss, “Well, I did this…this…and this, but I didn’t do what you had asked me to do. If
In this world we make a lot of assumptions. A lot of these assumptions are based on what we are taught and the way our culture views certain things. Essentially what the culture does is it prioritizes things. It considers certain things good and certain things bad, certain things high and certain things low, certain things
