Category: Spiritual Life And Practice

All natural theories about creation based on sensual appearances that place causal power in nature are simply false. This is because creation isn’t a natural process, it’s a spiritual process and where the Lord and spiritual realities aren’t acknowledged then all that’s left is human reasoning and speculation that sees end, cause and effect as purely natural forces existing on a single plane of operation…. Reflections on the concept of creation and what the Word has to say about the activity of Divine Love and Wisdom in bringing creation into being.

We can’t know Perfection itself but we need some finite idea of perfection in order to comprehend what it is that we’re experiencing in these new ways of understanding. So we’re offered variety. Variations of different forms of the Divine in our finite understanding

The Lords’s descent into our world follows the same events as the Word’s descent into our mind. An exploration of what the human from Mary and the human from the Father are in terms of our own inner spiritual processes of transformation.

The questions that we hear when we engage with the Word, are an invitation to embark on a journey of discovering wakefulness.

It’s a given that we have a life in the external world, but this external level of life with its relationships, activities, situations, and circumstances is not the direct focus of Logopraxis work. It’s important that these levels of life are kept separate in our thinking so that we can be clear about the “right” points for the application of the portion of text we are seeking to work with.

Freedom, spiritually understood, is the experience of compelling oneself to hold to what the Word teaches in the face of what appearances presented to our senses would have us believe. Far from being released from difficulties, we instead are empowered by the Lord as the Word to engage with them differently.

As we begin to become more aware of negative states, we need to observe and acknowledge them without falling into feelings of self-condemnation or negative self-talk. The intentional practice of the Word is what enables us to do this.

Insights into how the state of belief about our life can either foster a sense of peace or one of anxiety. A look at some relevant quotes from the Text on this topic.

Anxieties and depressions that are directly linked to inner spiritual work, are psychological states that arise due to shifts or changes taking place in the structure of our sense of self. And our sense of self is derived from an incredibly complex network of countless spiritual communities organised into a single organic being that is in the human form. Thus all shifts of state are the effect of truths doing their work to expose previously unconscious patterns of feeling and thinking into which our sense of self is tied into and which are detrimental to our overall spiritual well-being.

Logopraxis encourages us to try to view the Text as descriptive of our own states of mind. In other words, it all has to do with structures and process of consciousness. Here is a simple exercise you can try to practise reading with attention in this way…