How has our culture taught us to make decisions? Why is this method ineffective? What is a better method for making decisions? What does it say about life that this method works? Once we have made a decision, what tools can we use to evaluate it? https://youtu.be/mmuW2LCqhlw
Case studies
Atonement for negative karma
I recognize that my actions have harmed others in the past. Through selfishness, I have created and amplified traumas, Some of which may live on to this day. These will need to be healed through time, Some of them perhaps living on to future generations. For my part, I recognize that my own harmful actions… Continue reading Atonement for negative karma
One minute of silence
This video is exactly as advertised. Well, maybe a little more. But not much. https://youtu.be/-XdAF8jLNgI
Why, as a man, I want to live in an equitable world
When Donald Trump was elected to the presidency in 2016, I wrote a blog post acknowledging that I was not really as committed to equality as I might like to think. I did this because part of my spiritual practice entails identifying with that which feels frightful to me, and also because I wanted to… Continue reading Why, as a man, I want to live in an equitable world
Spiritual anatomy (Spiritual Download)
Kyle Hilding of the Spiritual Download YouTube channel and I discuss spiritual anatomy: what is soul? What is mind? What is body? What is heart? What is spirit? How do these things exist in relation to one another? For the purpose of this discussion, Kyle and I created and compare two diagrams portraying our views… Continue reading Spiritual anatomy (Spiritual Download)