Articles for inspiration and insight on what it might mean to practice the Word on a daily basis.
Agitations Of The Baker’s Beauty
This video weaves Rumi’s “The Merchant and the Parrot” story into the well known Biblical tale found in Genesis Chapter 40, of Joseph interpreting the dreams of his prison companions, the butler and the baker. We come to see the universal principles of self and the Divine, and what must be given up as the relationship between the two unfolds ...
An Impression Of Love – The Gift Of The Proprium
What do we embrace as the reality and source of the life that we feel as our own? How can self-love serve the process of coming to know what real love is? ...
Anxiety And Depression In The Spiritual Life
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 ...
Attaching To An Outcome
To live from the tree of life is to accept what the Word says the proprium is, but do we really believe this? And how does this connect to the need to let go of our attachments to outcomes in spiritual work? ...
Building Conscious Attention
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 ...
Charity And Church From A Logopraxis Perspective
The closer our understanding comes to recognising charity as an inner practice, the more the 'church' within is a true church ...
Creation From A Spiritual Perspective
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 ...
Freedom Is The Ability To Compel Oneself to Work
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 ...
Giving Up Our Need for Others to Know of Our Suffering
While we are identified with how difficult things are for us we will be constantly looking to draw the attention of others to ourselves and our suffering. This need to have our suffering affirmed by others through eliciting their sympathy only gives force to spiritual associations that bind us to an emotional life dominated by self-pity and other negative emotions. ...
