Monthly Archives: March 2012

A one-second lesson and miracle

One of my favorite books that I have read over the years is Boyhood with Gurdjieff by Fritz Peters. It is Peters’ account of spending four amazing years as a young boy under the tutelage of George Gurdjieff. Many miraculous … Continue reading

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The universe is a chatterbox

One of the wonderful things that science has discovered is that the universe is full of information and that nature’s forces have the capacity to communicate this wealth of information through various waves such as sound, light, etc. In fact, … Continue reading

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Love, harmony and digestion

They say, “You are what you eat,” which means, you are what you desire (because we eat what we hunger for).  Desires are derivatives of love. This notion may seem mundane at first but scientist/theologian Emanuel Swedenborg took this idea … Continue reading

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The bucket of dirty water

Once upon a time there lived a bucket of dirty water. His name was Bucky. He wanted to improve his image and status in the world so he tried to be as useful to society as possible. But after trying … Continue reading

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A new way to read the Bible!

The Holy Bible has taken some hits recently by those who point out that it miserably fails when compared with modern scientific discoveries or to the emerging new social sensitivities. So how can it be considered infallible and an authoritative … Continue reading

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Reorganizing Nature

This past Sunday my wife and I spent a good portion of the afternoon cleaning up the “yard.” Since we have to cover a five-acre tract (we let the other five acres go wild to raise the water table and … Continue reading

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Does Saint Patrick’s Day have anything to do with Spirituality or the Green Movement?

I ask this question because everyone wears green at this festivity in which we are supposedly celebrating a holy saint. Drinking (even if it is green beer) seems the opposite of how we should be responding to this holy and … Continue reading

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Evidence of God

In my second book Proving God I had to approach this most challenging subject from many, many angles. After all, you cannot simply drag a Spiritual (non-material) Being into court to provide legal physical evidence. So one of my many … Continue reading

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Oil addiction or technology addiction?

Those who warn that we need to get off our addiction to oil or other fossil fuels have good intentions but are overlooking a deeper problem. Modern society (and the middle class) needs enormous amounts of cheap energy to maintain … Continue reading

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Sustainability

I first became acquainted with the problems of pollution and ecology in the 1960s when I was attending art school. In 1974, when I was working as a writer for a large advertising agency in New York City, I could … Continue reading

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