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Finding Our Way Together
The most important thing that I offer in Honest to God that I have not encountered in other books that address the crises in today’s Christianity is emphasis on the role psychosocial-spiritual development plays in those crises. While the topics of spiritual practice and growth in consciousness have recently begun to enter the conversation, the…
A Conversation with Reality
I do not see God as a separate being among other beings but as the source, ground, and substance of all being. In other words, God is not a person-like being. I think that God is all there is and that God is also the emptiness/fullness from which all that is arises. Human social intelligence…
Partnering with Your Subconscious
The very same capacities that make us adaptively intelligent also make us susceptible to self-deception. – John Vervaeke In my last post (Interpersonal Consciousness?), I speculated that what I call formful spiritual experiences (visions, auditions, out of body experiences, telepathy, channeling and spirit guides, past-life regression, etc.) are generated from inside our self by the…
Interpersonal Consciousness?
This post is a follow-on to A Map of Consciousness: Iteration 1. [This post was modified on 06/18/2025.] I use the term interpersonal consciousness to signify the direct sharing of conscious content between creatures (people or animals) or between creatures and non-material spiritual beings (gods, angels, elementals, spirits of the dead) without communication via the…
A Map of Consciousness: Iteration 1
I am presently very much occupied with seeking to understand the structure of consciousness. That is, I am trying to make sense of the various levels and states of consciousness within individual beings, especially human beings, and how the consciousness of individuals may interact within larger fields of consciousness. My hope is to come to…
Trinity as Ontology — A Diagram
In Honest to God I offer an ontological interpretation of the Trinity. Ontology is the philosophical category concerned with being or existence. I suggest that the Trinity can be seen as a model of the process of creation. I suggest that the Creator (God) represents the source of being, that the Christ represents the whole…
Divine Inspiration
Christianity is not ultimately about Jesus. Buddhism is not ultimately about the Buddha. No religion is ultimately about the literal content of its narratives. The narratives of traditional religions are mythic. Even when the narrative has a historical setting, the historicity is of little significance. In fact, insisting on the literal truth of myths is…
Time to Wake Up this Blog
After publishing Honest to God and setting up this website, I stepped back to take a breather and to see what would happen. What happened was not much. That is not surprising since I did almost nothing in the way of marketing. I must admit that in the back of my mind I was hoping…
A Christmas Sermon
Matthew 1:18–2:23 (NRSV) 18 Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 19 Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace,…
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