The World, The Flesh, & The Devil
Dom Hélder Câmara’s model of the “spiral of violence” offers a comprehensive perspective on the sources of evil and violence in society. By recognizing and addressing evil at all three levels ...
Powers, Principalities, Thrones & The Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment and the concept of “powers, principalities, and thrones” both offer insights into the nature of evil, particularly in the context of human behavior and institutions. While the ...
A Contemplation on Love’s Essence
Love Beyond Sentiment: A Contemplation on Love’s Essence Love is often portrayed as an emotion that dances in the realm of sentimentality and romance. It is depicted as a force that ...
Where Words Dissolve
Silence is the universal language. It is a common human experience that the deepest communication occurs when nothing needs to be said: in silence, one hears the language of lovers or ...
Transpersonal Psychology
It is human nature to desire and yearn for meaning and purpose in life, to connect with —to be part of—something bigger than ourselves, and to connect with the depths of ...
Essential Nonviolence
The Sufis tell a story of the Holy One who said to his disciples, “What’s better, do you think? Is it contemplation, or is it action?” They said, “Why, Holy One, ...
Is the World Real or Just an Illusion?
Many classic Advaita texts say that the world is an illusion, but does that mean that it is not real? The only reason we have problems with this is that in ...
Values – Truth, Goodness, Beauty
What are values? Are they just paint or wallpaper on the walls of our cell which we put there in order to brighten our prospects in this hermetically sealed box in ...
Attention
Let’s examine the all-important role of attention. Attention is not just another cognitive function. Attention is how our world comes into being for us. The altered nature of attention can appear ...
We Act Out a Story
We act out a story and we perceive the world through a story. Thus the question is, what story should you act out? Or what story should you emulate? Or what ...
Establishing Healthy Conscious Moral Norms
Establishing Healthy Conscious Moral Norms Violence often begins by making the “other” less-than, dehumanized, demoralized, or demonized in some way. The violence occurring in the United States, from the capital insurrection, ...
Love
We live within a great paradox that God created otherness which is the source of sin, the source of suffering, but is the prerequisite for Love; to love one another. When ...
Freedom
A miscellany of freedom. Today, most of us try to find personal and individual freedom even as we remain inside of structural boxes and a system of consumption that we are ...
Creating the New Moral Norm
“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.” ― Émile Durkheim As a interfaith/interspiritual minister and organizational psychologist, I often consider the overlapping schemas of ...
What do we mean by prayer?
What do we mean by prayer? We tend to think of it as something we do, but it is much more something we are. Prayer is less about saying prayers and ...