Articles for inspiration and insight on what it might mean to practice the Word on a daily basis.
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. ...
Hope
Hope, from the perspective of Spiritual Christianity, is not the same kind of hope that is spoken of in day-to-day life. It is not the hope that we have grown accustomed to. The places that each type of hope leads us to are quite different. Natural hope and spiritual hope however, both begin with a state of grief and loss - a lack of hope ...
Insights Into States of Anxiety And Depression In The Spiritual Life
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 ...
It’s Elephants All The Way Down
What is it about a spiritual body that makes it a substantial body in contrast to a physical body and why does it matter? An exploration of the nature of spiritual substance and how a clearer understanding of this can transform our participation in life ...
Learning To Exist
The nature of what existence is, isn’t something that we are born into or is obvious for us. Instead, it is something we have to learn. We have to learn how existence is a 'monitor street', and of the Word's role in this ...
Manifestations Of A Mandelbrot
This video takes the viewer on an exploration of the Mandelbrot Set as an illustration of spiritual processes and experiences. “The finite cannot comprehend it because it cannot contain the infinite; and it can comprehend it … because there are abstract ideas by means of which the existence of things can be seen, if not the nature of them.” Divine Providence 46 ...
On Lacking Motivation To Work
Can we avoid difficulties and times of struggle in this kind of work? The simple answer is no. But we can learn to navigate them and while it may be difficult to appreciate at the time, this struggle does contain useful material for us ...
Our Questions Are How The Divine Leads Us …
The questions that we hear when we engage with the Word, are an invitation to embark on a journey of discovering wakefulness ...
Outer Or Inner Life – Where Is Our Work Focus?
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 ...
