Tag: God
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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A Brief Explanation of Existential Therapy
Everyone is faced with their experience of existence. It is wonderful, emotionally painful, beautiful and sweet, traumatic and tedious, ecstatic and depressing, meaningful and meaningless at times. What are we to do with these opposites? Repress the dark and only think good thoughts? That works temporarily but doesn’t offer a way to face these extremes…
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God, a Useful Definition, page 2
In a previous post: God, a Useful Definition, I closed with another quote from C.G. Jung: “Religion is a defense against the experience of God.” God, a Useful Definition, page 2 is about our experience, pure and simple. It is obvious in the world today how “Religion is a defense against the experience of God”. …
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God, A Useful Definition
Jung’s definition of God: “all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans, and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.” There are so many assumptions when the word God is tossed around. It is difficult to even say or read…
