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Isn’t life amazing? Though sometimes frustrating, overwhelming, even infuriating, our journey through the material world is a truly fantastic adventure filled with potential for fulfilment and pleasure. But how many of are actually taking advantage of all that is on offer? Or to put it another way, how many of us are simply coasting through on cruise control and missing much of what’s out there?
Life is certainly complex. Numerous things demand our attention, and in the final analysis most of these urgencies are utterly meaningless. Have we paid the gas bill?, remembered Mrs X’s birthday?, chosen the right outfit for the company “do”?….. The list is endless. The trouble is, with so much noise, can we even hear – never mind respond to – the real message? Continue reading The Power of Focus
English occultist Aleister Crowley wrote “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” in his classic The Book of The Law forcibly dictated to him by the discarnate higher intelligence called Aiwaz.
What is meant by this “law”? Does it mean we are free to do whatever we please – in other words that there is no law? Or does it convey a deeper, more subtle, truth?
Compare “do what thou wilt” to the Lord Jesus’ expression of “thy will be done”, referring to God’s will. Are the two teachings irreconcilably incompatible?
In answering these questions we must draw upon two fundamental Spiritual principles. Continue reading Do What Thou Wilt
Why do we dream?
Nobody really knows why we dream. Explanatory theories include the following:
- Dreaming results from random brain activity.
- Dreaming is simply the brain doing its housekeeping, filing away all the different thoughts, observations and other inputs of the day.
- Dreams are an invaluable insight into the subconscious, the “royal road” in the words of Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis.
- Dreams give the opportunity to experience situations and emotions that we may never encounter physically, either as a rehearsal for what may be, or simply for experiential growth.
- In dreams we draw closer to the world of Spirit and are able to receive Spiritual/psychical information that is normally unavailable during the waking state. Continue reading The Meaning of Dreams
A Definition of Introvert
Introversion is the tendency to focus one’s attention towards the inner, mental world rather than external, physical “reality”.
Introversion is a natural characteristic occurring in about 25% of the population according to psychotherapist Dr Marti Olsen Laney in her excellent book The Introvert Advantage. Dr Laney offers a further definition of introversion, ie that introverts are those who draw energy from the inner world of ideas and emotions as opposed to extroverts who thrive on external experience and interaction. Continue reading The Introvert Personality
Do you have a job, a career, or a vocation?
A job is something undertaken simply to put food on the table and a roof overhead. A career usually implies a skilled trade or profession reached after a significant period of training/education, often with scope for continuing progression. A vocation goes further than the above. It is the alignment of one’s efforts and achievements with their major life purpose. Continue reading Finding Your Life’s True Vocation
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