Spirituality
This post is a follow-up to the post Self Development and Transcendence or Maslow Upside-Down. It was provoked by Shen’s comment on the post. Shen asked about where spirituality fits in Maslow’s hierarchy. Physical and Spiritual My own view is that human experience has five dimensions: physical (sensations), emotional, mental, spiritual and social (relationships with [...]
My answer to this is, “Yes”. But this immediately leads to questions about what I mean. So . . . The Terminology I think there is a difference between our experience and our reflection on our experience and our talking about our experience. When people speak of “no-self” this is referring to an experience. Terminology [...]
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Today is blog action day. Once a year bloggers around the world write about one topic of social concern. This year it is water. This is a difficult issue to do anything meaningful about as an individual (it involves large utilities for those of us in the West). The best resource I know for water [...]
This post is quite a change of pace. These words came to me quite suddenly and fairly easily. I hope you like them. At the core of who I am is a silence, not grand or deep but nourishing, refreshing and pleasant. Which sounds wimpy. I’m suspicious of the grand, and think it is usually [...]
Last week on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog I had a guest post about whether there is an experience of belief. I have a follow-up post there this week on whether there are experiences of spirit or what we call spiritual experiences. The post is called: Is there an experience of spirit? My [...]
On the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog I had a guest post where I said that I didn’t believe that the Biblical approach was a punitive morality. One commenter said they would like me to say more about this. So this post is for Lex. (It is about my understanding of Biblical Christianity – [...]
This is a guest post by Karen Anderson. I hope you like it. All comments most welcome. It’s a question I often ask myself when people say that faith heals – if faith could really heal, then are those who are spiritual in the prime of health? And if you’re an atheist, does that mean [...]
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Dear God forgive us; we don’t know what we do. We are dazed and stunned. Complexity and immobility define our age. For lack of a vision people perish. We need a vision of a path that is humane, practical and collaborative. As well as a vision we need a way of speaking to each other. [...]
Sometimes we go through times when we feel like we are dying. What is dying is an old way of life that doesn’t work anymore (ideas about ourselves, other people, our beliefs about what is right and wrong and so on). I am told that Jungian therapists have a saying to the effect that people [...]
There is a time . . . to die. Solomon – Ecclesiastes ch.3 I am told that the Taoists having a saying to the effect that we should die 10,000 times a day: that is, with each breath we let go of what has gone before and welcome the new moment. This only applies to [...]
