Monthly Archives: June 2012
There are no hammocks in heaven
We are all going to die. Have you given any thought about heaven or a life beyond this one? Does your idea of heaven (and eternal happiness) make sense? Here is a new insight to contemplate — Since we never … Continue reading
Posted in god, Inner growth, Life after death, love, Reality, religion, spirituality, unity
Tagged angels, happiness, heaven, mutual love, Paradise
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Charlie is taken to a new kind of church
Sunday service was over and one of the members was thanking the minister for his wonderful sermon as he was leaving the church building. His name was Charlie and he attended church service faithfully every Sunday. On this special day … Continue reading
Posted in god, Inner growth, Life after death, psychology, Reality, religion, spirituality, symbolism, unity
Tagged angel, church, deeper knowledge, New Jerusalem, second coming, spiritual faith
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My babies are nuts
Literally! Years ago, after purchasing some rural acreage, I planted chestnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans and hickory nuts. Now all my trees are bearing nuts. I have raised them like children. (The photo above is a developing chestnut on one of … Continue reading
Will the Lord return with the cyberspace “cloud”?
I find it fascinating that the psychical realm of cyber-information is now being called a “cloud” and the Revelation chapter of the Bible predicts that the Lord will return in the midst of clouds. Could both cloud-terms refer to a … Continue reading
Posted in god, Inner growth, psychology, Reality, religion, spirituality, symbolism, unity
Tagged Bible symbolism, cyberspace cloud, data, Emanuel Swedenborg, paradigm shift, Revelation, second coming
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Blackberry fields forever!
I have designed my earthly garden around spiritual symbolism. Basically, this means that I have taken the ancient idea that all things in physical nature represent spiritual qualities of the human mind and heart, and with that rarefied knowledge, I … Continue reading
Posted in god, Inner growth, psychology, Reality, religion, spirituality, symbolism, unity
Tagged : Inner Gardening, blackberry plants, correspondences, Emanuel Swedenborg, fruit, spiritual brambles, thorns
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A new causal reason for climate change
Climate change has happened all through the earth’s history—with and without human influence. But now that we humans have arrived, our activity certainly affects the environment. I find the thought haunting that a great civilization like ancient Egypt, which once … Continue reading
Two big reasons why I embrace the spiritual ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg and George Gurdjieff
The first and simplest reason is that after attending the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for four years I formed a working appreciation of creative and abstract thought—I had developed a natural fondness for symbolic thought. Both Emanuel Swedenborg … Continue reading
Was General George Armstrong Custer a Hebrew manservant?
Symbolically speaking, perhaps the answer is “yes”! I know General Custer wasn’t Jewish but his faith-system did not seem to be based on mutual love and goodness. There is a rumor that after Custer was killed at the battle of … Continue reading
Book Expo America (BEA) 2012
Every year I attend the Book Expo America event to learn about the exciting new trends in the book industry and find opportunities to promote my company’s (Staircase Press) own published works. (A lot of business-growing contacts and insightful knowledge … Continue reading
Posted in publishing, Reality, religion, spirituality, unity
Tagged BEA, Book Expo America, book industry, book trends, Certe, food, independent book publishers
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