Shadfish Image courtesy of Joseph Goldfedder (c) – see Home – (josephgoldfedder.com) Lovingkindness (Chesed) Now in this fourth day of the Counting of the Omer, a Jewish traditional practice of 49 days of reflection on the fundamental forces present in our Universe, I felt inspired this morning to write down what I heard from an early …
Satellite imagery of Ukraine Putin’s Invasion – by Bernice Marie-Daly The trouble is that Presence loves unconditionally and we do not.And we don’t want to; and we don’t want to admit we don’t want to. We are afraid to learn to love even though we know that all we seek is the fullness of Love. To …
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In these uncertain pandemic times, both environmentally, culturally, and geo-politically, this “Sleeping Lady” posture helps me remember to seek greater connection with Earth for guidance and support. The uncertainty I’m experiencing in life is a kind of darkness, not too unlike the darkness encountered in the subterranean Hypogeum burial pit where all that is unessential to a Soul is stripped away.
Let’s ground ourselves in a bit of mytho-poetics with a poem before beginning our reflection on “The Journey of the Universe” documentary… “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; …
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“Jung says that we are a sick society because we have lost a valid myth to live by, and in my small back room (in the apartment where I grew up as a child), I was absorbing a mythic view of the universe, a universe created by a power of love far too great to …
Back in February of 2017, the Reconstructionist Jewish Community in Princeton, NJ (String of Pearls) chose the theme of “Cultivating Inner Strength” as the topic of focus for that year’s Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur’s gathering. Many years later in July of 2021 as I reflect on these past four years, I’m beginning to see …
She is not the first cause or unmoved mover.
She is not a separate being who lives somewhere else.
She is not a being who loves.
She is not the creator of the Universe
She is not a being we can talk about or identify in any way.
She does not exist.
I’ve decided to move out, into a space as wide as the sky is pinkish blue, to the purer awareness of the Stars blasting their radiance without thought of self.
“Our present difficulty is that we envisage the universe simply in its physical dimensions. We have lost the awareness that the universe has from the beginning been a psychic-spiritual as well as material-physical reality. It has taken the entire course of the evolutionary process for the universe to find its expression in the florescence of living forms and in the various modes of consciousness that are manifested throughout Earth.”
(Note: This piece of writing is adapted from a presentation given to the Cuyamungue Institute on 8/16/20 as part of a Sunday Lecture Series. The full presentation is available on YouTube (click here to view). As a person raised in the Jewish faith, but a seeker of spiritual truth across multiple traditions (thus interspiritual), I’ve …
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