theosis

I know what I shall focus on, shall write about -- Love, the most powerful force, the most invasive and transformational energy in the Cos...

Cross Word Jesus' hands nailed, fixed, unmovable on the horizontal isolation -- the scientific world of this and that, of the mutter...

As fractals of the cosmos, we humans have three cognitive powers: Sensory (Be sensible!), Intellectual (Think!), Imaginative (Receive! Exp...

What I learned this morning at Christianity school: Christ consciousness is the true Christian doctrine. Thus, as Christians, we open to ...

Though my heart and mind are open to all the paths that teach the embodying of love and understanding, my root guru is Jesus. I love that ...

Tribes. We are each and all members of tribes. We claim membership in our tribe, our tribes. We feel comfortable with our tribal kin. Tribe...

“...that you present your bodies a living sacrifice...” (Romans 12:1) In the Kabbalah, a treasure of spiritual understanding, sacrifice ...

In reading and studying and opening to the insights of Meister Eckhart, particularly as presented by C.F. Kelley in his "Meister Eckha...

The orthodox form of Christianity is based upon sin and sacrifice. Sin is separation from God which can be abolished only by the offering o...

We read the Bible not for its imagery to comfort and pacify the ego, that little sense of separate self, but to amplify, expand the soul. W...

1/19/14 Awoke from dream, 2 a.m. There were two men. Every day each would arise and prove a pole. The pole reached to the sky and was ...

Imagine the Angel of your Being, a boundless sphere of radiant energy whose center is just above your head, extending down into your heart ...

“The only means of attaining the Absolute lies in adapting ourselves to It.”  --Recejac,  quoted in Underhill, Mysticism , p. 90 I am ...

We have made Christ an object and not surprisingly some object to that object and some subject (themselves) to that object. In addition, in...

A theologian is one who studies issues of ultimate concern. (I learned this definition from my spiritual friend, Beverly Lanzetta.) In do...

Wellspring-Offspring-Lifeforce Wu-Tai-Chi  Mother-Daughter-Holy Spirit  Source-Sourcing-Energy Origin-Originating-Breath  Formless-For...

In viewing Christianity as a consciousness discipline, I see that much of its language is outmoded, requires new understanding. Salvation...

“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) What...

When we no longer stand and look When we are the looking When the we and the are and the looking No longer exist No longer exit Is ... ...

We each are the Cosmic Christ. We open our eyes as Earth, die many deaths and continuously resurrect, born again and again and again as thi...

The Unnamable Becoming births all Life: the Universes, the Beings, the sustaining Energetic Flow. We call the Unnamable Becoming God. God...

Just because there are cretinous bigots with pus filled brains of hatred who claim exclusive use of the word "God" does not mean ...

True Christianity has little to do with following a set of external rules. One focuses on merging with Christ consciousness. One does this ...

We are like tuning forks. A tuning fork has a handle and two prongs. The handle stays firm and relatively unmoving while its bifurcation, i...

He was thought to be "getting more mystical" as he grew older. In reality, he was shedding the clothes he had donned in being bor...

A menu from which one chooses one’s life focus has been famously derived from consideration of the types of population that are present at ...

The "theology of the death of God" (Henry Corbin's phrase) is the theology of the Man-created world, historical, linear, flat...

For our comfort, we see familiar figures represented in the heavens. With the advent of industrial light, the heavens have disappeared from...

"These are the things the blessed Savior said, and he disappeared from them. Then all the disciples were in great, ineffable joy in th...

The secular understanding is that we are emergents of the natural order and can be reduced to its elements. The theistic understanding is t...

God is our attempt to understand the universe. We put all the power of movement, of thought, of creation on someone out there somewhere w...

"Be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Romans 12:2 One current of the renewal consists of switching from sensory percep...

I cannot see what I cannot see. I can see only what I can see. I can see only what I have the capacity to see. If I cannot see it, it d...

In addition to ego consciousness (the encapsulated I-Me-Mine), we have/are ordinal (straight-line ordinary) or surface consciousness and d...

The Savior laughed and said to them: "What are you thinking about? Are you perplexed? What are you searching for?" Philip said: ...

The Light that originally lit and now lights our cosmos is the same Light that lights our soul. "Let your light so shine." Get li...

The Mystery is not interested so much in WHAT we perceive but HOW we perceive: the HOW that makes us members of the Mage Eye Nation.

For every Yes there is a multitude of No which fade into insignificance when the Heart is in the Yes. The words of the Eternal Yes: When yo...

The caduceus, the wand of healing, represents not just the energies of humankind (and each individual of the species) but, more importantly...

Divine or, if you prefer, Cosmic energies pour through continuously birthing all that Is. We wankle and workle the Energy we are, the Energy...

Each of us lives our life in accord with an Energetic Flow. I capitalize because the Energetic Flows are archetypal in nature, eternally re...

Can we step outside the Story? Not spurn it, stay inclusive? Nor yield to its dualistic theme, of war of This against That and the necessity...

Riffing off one of the themes (a major one) of Henry Corbin this morning, my mind reverberates within angelic realms. Each of us has (and i...

We see what is visible to us. We do not see what is not visible to us. Some things (a vastness) are not visible to us. We may intuit the ...

Henry Corbin and Suhrawardi's Angelology (Roberts Avens)

Many see Jesus as an intermediary, rather than example. This is a subtle, yet blatant, evasion of responsibility.

Revelation does not come through logical cogitation but through direct encounter with the Angel of one's Being. As and when one encounte...

Take a look at Mark 2: 1-12. Read those 12 verses first. Here is the Amplified version of the Bible I am using . Of course, this is a st...

enthusiasm : en-thus-iasm : en-theos-iasm : to be filled with the energies of the theos, of our source, of the wellspring

The reading  of Ewert Cousins' " Global Spirituality " turned my awareness to the four senses of understanding that can and d...

Vehicle -- transport device.   Jacob had his ladder of angels, Elijah had his chariot, Ezekiel his revolving wheels, Buddha his body of bli...

It may be "turtles all the way down" but it's Angels (Messengers of Light) all the way up.

One of the hardest things for us humans to do is to recognize, to realize that "I am That" (tat tvam asi). We like to think of ou...

1:28 a.m. Words spoken to me as I awoke: "The Seven Sermons of the Dead." "Seeds of new life are found in old jars."...

Let the compassion and grace of That Which Births Us, that is ever birthing us, move through our hearts for right action in this world.

Consider that we are composed of and surrounded by various energies. Energies of construction. Energies of destruction. We are those energi...

1. Here is action. Action exists. Action is here. Action unfolds. Here. 2. Action is internal and external. We call the internal action t...

Five of us have been meeting over the last few months to focus on the practices of consciousness transformation. I wrote this for us and th...

"The Vedic cosmological experience is not mainly temporal or spatial, as if Man were thrown into a limitless temporal or spatial sea, ...

God is not dead -- only the God we idolized, made something of, is dead. And good riddance. No need to dance around that Golden Calf. It is ...

theosis : union with the ever emerging energies of our Source, the Wellspring kenosis : emptying self of self perichoresis : the interfl...

I fail to understand why some Christians insist that Jesus is the only incarnation of God. What is the rest of the universe but God incarnat...

Meister Eckhart clears up some of the confusion when we say God cannot be known and God can be intimately known. The God that cannot be kno...

Naked apes with goat-like genitalia priding ourselves upon our immense capability while growing fat on fructose as a precursor to our more e...

Occam's razor, the cutting edge for all science, reminds us to postulate no more than what is necessary. The razor shaves differently, h...

In a cosmos that is alive, aware, and energetic, revelation and disclosure is not "supernatural" but is a natural process. One s...

To those whose intellectual purity is upset and who respond to the word "God" with cold fury and heated aggravation: Get over it. ...

In map art , one paints the canvas with visionary scenes rather than lines of highways and numbered miles. If I were to paint a visionary ...

"The founder of any branch of Chinese gung fu must be more ingenious than the common man. If his achievement is not carried on by disc...

Early thought was that hell existed below (beneath the earth) and heaven existed above (in the sky). That gave way to a belief that both hea...

becoming an angel “the Active Imagination is not a theory, it is an initiation to vision"

"Another characteristic was his (Suhrawardi's) view of the inseparability of philosophical study from spiritual experience, namely ...

If, as David Miller proclaims, "Religion means being gripped by a story," then all of us, every mother's child of us, is rel...