Tagged with Belief

The invention of science produced the miracle to generate believers on a truly massive scale. If you can see this, it's easier to see why science, even though it's still repressing its need to believe, continues to charge towards the methaphysical. (more)

For most spiritual folks, state change is what it's all about.  Spiritual states have the power to open the mind, nourish the heart, and change the world.  They are, I think, the most important force for social and environmental sustainability on the planet.  And they can be lots of fun, too. (more)

Some believe that without free will, we are mere biological instruments, with no soul.  But from a nondual perspective, this argument is theologically backward. The autonomous soul isn't the gateway to God; it's the gateway to delusion.  This is the yetzer hara, the selfish, separating and, occasionally, evil inclination that sees the self as the center of the universe.  (more)

How was all of the "stuff" that went along with the study of magic first derived? I wanted to understand the nature of the gods and goddesses from books and esoteric lore that I had come to love and find a pantheon within my own life and experience. (more)

Why did it take a recently discovered stone tablet for scholars to recognize that the resurrection myth is about society, not a particular person? (more)

In the Christian story of the Last Supper, Jesus distributes the flesh of God, initiating the first communion. To a Catholic, the significance of the scene is its mythic and theological context. But to a Buddhist, it's about fresh baked bread. (more)

The distance between the Skeptical mindset and the believing mindset can represent a choice between suspicion and trust, cynicism or sincerity. (more)

A little over a decade ago, I had a bona-fide, Grade A, no-shit “mystical” experience – or at least something that felt a hell of a lot like one. (more)

During the recent drought, Georgia governor Sonny Perdue held a public vigil to pray for rain. When exactly did sympathetic magic return to vogue for pseudo-religious American politicians? (more)

Early this month, two sets of photos hit the Internet claiming to be the clearest images of UFOs ever recorded. The furious and multifaceted debate over the authenticity of these photos expresses a crucial turning point in our consciousness: We have learned how to obfuscate reality so well through media technology that it is no longer possible to definitively determine what is "real." (more)