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Magical Thinking

August 29, 2020

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Magical Thinkers versus Evidence Seekers Each creates alternative worlds that they believe in. Each actively seeks for alternative solutions that they then work for. This brings incredibly extreme polarization in our world today;  both in the way we see the world and in the solutions we believe in. What is Magical Thinking? Magical thinking is […]

Upside Down

August 26, 2020

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Seeking truth and finding it are two very different things. Seeking truth is about the journey, the anticipation, the exploration . . . But what if we started to actually “see” it??? and more deeply understand? Would we look? Or would we turn away? Would we fear the demands it might place on us? Would […]

Cairn of Remembrance

August 20, 2020

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So Much Forgotten So Much to Forget So Much More to Remember So Much to LearnSo Much to UnlearnSo Much to Relearn So much we think we know! So much we already know but have forgotten. “Every single one of us has it within us to be patient, kind, and compassionate. And each one of […]

Letting Go

August 19, 2020

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The daily discipline of unclenching the fists We come into this world with hands empty and open. We leave this world with hands empty and open. Yet we live our lives like things and people are ours to cling to and keep forever. Living with Open Hands is an expression of an Open Mind Open Heart Open […]

WWJD

August 14, 2020

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WWJD: relevant or irrelevant today? More precisely, is Christianity relevant or irrelevant today??? Remember WWJD? In Christian circles 40 years ago, it posed the question, “What Would Jesus Do?” I remember it best as a leather bracelet worn as a way of identifying with Jesus and often distinguishing Jesus followers from typical church folk that […]

OPEN HANDS are an expression of an open mind, open heart, and open will

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I have NO interest in convincing others to think in any certain way. Anything I post is simply something to think about. Everything I post is continually progressing and evolving so expect nothing to be static and all to dynamic. So don’t hold me to it. Just take it or leave it. But…
I AM interested in these three things:
1) That we all think and do what we know down deep is the right thing
2) That we all honor and respect that in others
3) That we all seek to understand more than to be understood.

HISTORY OF THE HEART

“Even the longest, most detailed, and most expressive obituaries always omit the essence of a life: the history of a person’s heart. How many of us wish we had asked more questions of someone we loved, not about what happened and when but about the inner experience of being that person? About hopes and fulfillments, failures and regrets? About moments of despair and moments of meaning?” (Parker Palmer, Healing the Heart of Democracy)

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(2.0) version is my inner work of systematic deconstruction, deconversion, uprooting, and dredging up a lifetime of deep-seated conditioning, ingrained beliefs, and dogma; discerning trash from treasures and thoughtfully reconstructing a world and life view that reflects the shape of my heart. As I go deeper and beyond, answers fade into questions, certainty into uncertainty, knowing into unknowing.

Discover the truth wherever it may be found.

Refine the truth within through the fire of discernment.

Follow the truth wherever it may take you.

Remember what you already know.

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” (Rumi)

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” (Rumi) 

“I asked myself, ‘What is the myth you are living?’ and found that I did not know. So… I took it upon myself to get to know my myth, and I regarded this as the task of tasks… I simply had to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me.” (Carl Jung)

“Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life,
and you will call it fate.”
(Carl Jung)

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