by admin | Jan 29, 2022 | Blog, Spirituality
ADVERTISEMENT The essence of Hawaiian spirituality is among the most recognized, yet least understood, feelings of Hawaii Nei (the collective Hawaiian islands). Native Hawaiians refer to this divine power as mana and hold it in great regard because it is the “essence...
by admin | Jan 28, 2022 | Blog, Spirituality
I think I was probably 19 when I heard about quantum physics. They just barely skimmed over it in college chemistry, probably because the professors really didn’t know how to teach it since it completely undermines Newtonian physics. The one thing that did get through...
by admin | Jan 28, 2022 | Spirituality
In the Spiritual Exercises there is a meditation on “three types of people.” I think we are misled, though, by Ignatius naming these people as static “types” rather than dynamic beings, types of persons who cross some line and supposedly become forever. In this life,...
by admin | Jan 27, 2022 | Blog, Spirituality
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the devotion to answers has prevented discovery, greatly hindered innovation, and basically kept the human race planet-bound when for the last 300 years we could have been exploring the stars. I know. Kind of a sweeping...
by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | Spirituality
St. Ignatius begins the Spiritual Exercises with the essential principle that God’s love is unconditional. Adding two words, “for me,” made it intensely personal. I prayed for the grace to be able to see and was confronted by the memory of an eye exam. The memory was...
by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Blog, Spirituality
I somewhat cynically used to say in my youth that unconscious meditation, the kind we all do when we are obediently serving The Matrix, is the single most untenable problem in human history. I’ll agree with that now in my mature years with the exception that...
