Deliverance

“Knowing what something is, is not the same as feeling it.” The Giver What would make you willing to feel all the pain and suffering inside of you? What would make you insatiably hungry to feel all of your life? You close off. It is natural to protect yourself from pain. It is painful to …

What is Heaven?

Lately everything seems unreal. I keep waiting for it all to fall apart into tiny pixels of color and light, myself included. Earth feels unreal; Heaven, or what I conceive as God (the dissolution of self) seems closer, ever closer. I still exist; I haven’t dissolved. Ready. Willing. Still here. And yet, the detachment from …

Consummation

We should make all spiritual talk simple today God is trying to sell you something but you don’t want to buy That is what your suffering is: your fantastic haggling your manic screaming over price. –Hafiz   God is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient – all powerful, ever present, all knowing. I sense and feel the Divine …

I am the Earth

I Am the Earth, the crunch of leaves, Fall’s fragrance of life composting, combusting itself into new life. I am the sperm, the egg, the nest of creation, through which God makes his Presence known, his will made manifest. As I give myself away, withholding nothing at all, I Am all This and the Heavens …