The Fundamental Illusion
The notion that God is absent is the fundamental illusion of the human condition. – Thomas Keating, as cited by Cynthia Bourgeault in The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice
The Search
What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk…
Revelation of the Divine
The Christ Mystery refuses to be vague or abstract; it must be concrete and specific. When we stay with our daily experiences and apparitions, we see that everything is a revelation of the divine—from rocks to rocket ships. The divine…
Transformed into Fire by Judith Hougen
Transformed into Fire by Anne Braund Living From The Heart – Module 3 – January, 2017 This invitation to life in the True Self by Judith Hougen was a deeply moving book. It opened my eyes to the making and functioning…
A contemplative response to public struggles
How do SoulStream Partners—desiring to live contemplatively in the world—respond to public struggles such as the recent crisis at Standing Rock in N. Dakota? It’s not easy! It’s not just out there, far away. We have our own local painful…
Not the Help That Creation Expected
. . . Might not Incarnation be his response not to the incidental irregularity of sin but to the unhelpable presence of badness in creation? Perhaps in a world where, for admittedly inscrutable reasons, victimization is the reverse coin of…
Once You Are Real
It doesn’t happen all at once . . . You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by…
What is Truth?
What is truth? You can see where there is truth and where there isn’t, but I seem to have lost my sight. I see nothing. You boldly settle all the important questions, but tell me, my dear boy, isn’t it because you…