Meeting The Masters

Eastern religion is the quest for enlightenment or liberation, the two words amounting to much the same thing. This entails the death of sel...

 The most distinctive feature of advanced mystical experience is the  dissolution of self in which the sense of "I" is subsumed in...

 What stops a soul ascending to the heavenly realms after death? It is its weight. A soul is literally held down by its weight or rises beca...

 There has been a good series of posts on the Orthosphere recently on the subject of universalism and whether all will eventually be saved. ...

 The full quote from Matthew 24 is " For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; ...

 I was asking myself recently that if I knew I was going to die in a few days' time what would I tell my children in an attempt to prote...

 Francis Berger has a good  post on his blog about how being religious these days is not enough if you lack proper spiritual perception whi...

 It seems that a lot of people still cannot see the difference between the letter and the spirit. There remain many who believe that only th...

 I seem to be writing quite a few articles in response to other people's work at the moment. This is another such, inspired by Bruce Cha...

The answer to that is, surprising as it may sound to those raised in certain religious backgrounds, it doesn't necessarily save you. Aft...

What if the present time were an examination to see which souls wanted life and which did not? For life read spiritual life for when you com...

Modern people have the idea that we are the most humane people ever. We are the most compassionate, the most tolerant, the most accepting of...

 There is a danger that people at the moment may define spirituality in terms of resistance to what is going on in the world. More or less a...

In the discussion after my last post on universalism the point was made that there was something special about these times. Special as in un...

One of the strands of Christian thought maintains that God's mercy is such that everybody will eventually be saved. This is called unive...

I am currently reading a book* which examines the similarities between medieval visionary journeys, of which we have several examples, and m...

Jesus's remark that it's harder for a rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle is one of his m...

At the end of a previous post I pondered on what might happen to souls who reject the truth of God, and speculated that they might be giv...

This question refers to a point made in the last  post  and, by implication at least, touches on the important matter of what the self, if...