Spirituality
Corinne is a blogging friend who writes at Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards. She has had a varied career that has taken in real estate, counselling, and (most relevant to this post), interviewer of self help and self improvement authors on the cable show Wisdom TV. As she was interviewing these writers Corinne found that [...]
In this post I asked you to tell me your biggest difficulty/problem/challenge with living an authentic life. This post is my response to the comment I received from Christian: For me – it’s living up to a certain individual. Striving to be more like Jesus Christ. To me, and my beliefs, he emulates all that [...]
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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 [...]
An Upside-Down Tree There is an ancient symbol of a tree upside-down – that is, with its roots in the sky and branches toward the earth. My interpretation of this symbol is that our life comes from our spirituality: “Persons do not live by bread alone”. In this view of things a life that is [...]
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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 [...]
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. [...]
Part 3 Early Adulthood One of the great good fortunes of my life was to join an organisation called Fusion Australia – now Fusion International. It is a christian based, non-denominational, youth and community work organisation. Staff were paid by donation (called ‘living by faith’ in the Evangelical jargon) – so few of us were [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is How Can We Talk About Our Spiritual Experience? This is a genuine question for me. I’m not sure we have the language to have the discussion yet. I do think we may be at the point where we can begin [...]
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One of the themes of the last fifteen to twenty years of my life has been finding a way to make money doing what I love. It has taken me many places (following my interest in psychotherapy, retreats to experience Christian spirituality, learning massage, learning to value my physicality, acupuncture and blogging) and I have [...]
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