It’s not just holding ourselves responsible for morally and ethically living up to the expectations of God, but holding ourselves responsible for the God we worship in itself. No one has a spiritual excuse to increase suffering in the world, including God! —Tom F. Shadid What does it mean that we must take responsibility for our […]
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Recently I was talking with some friends and as we are all of a certain age, the conversation came around to funeral service options. For various personal and religious reasons, several different preferences were expressed. Choices included cremation, a launch to sea on a small boat, donation to a medical school, and my offering, a […]
The Reptilian Mind For the infant, disruption of its biological homeostatic balance needed to sustain life is “felt” at a physiological level as life-threatening, which it is. Similarly, for the infantile reptilian-minded “adult,” anything experienced as a threat to the status quo can also be “felt” as life-threatening, as much as asphyxiation would be for […]