I recently wrote a paper for the Unity Institute’s Lyceum 2013 held in early April at Unity Village. My topic was the poet Wordsworth and his influence on the Transcendentalists and so to New Thought and Unity. It was the first academic paper that I’d written in quite a while but I enjoyed the process, […]
The Green Man archetype represents the deep relationship we have with nature and is found in varying forms in many world traditions. The image of the Green Man whose face is swathed in foliage with shoots springing forth from his open mouth is a potent symbol of the Earth’s, and therefore our, fecundity. Matthew Fox […]
I was sitting at breakfast with my mother and my wife in a quaint bed-and-breakfast in Wales in the late 1970s when the words “The Beholder” came strongly into my mind. At first I got the idea of God being The Beholder as God seeing everything with a cosmic perspective. Almost immediately I became aware […]
Do you have to go to church or attend a religious community to be on the spiritual path? For those who describe themselves as ‘spiritual but not religious’ the answer is often no. For them spiritual practice is primarily an individual quest and often involves an eclectic approach combining elements from more than one religion […]
Each of us is called to step up to the plate, to be engaged in life in ways that challenge and inspire us. In fact, when we are unwilling to do so we cannot experience the fullness of what it means to be alive. This takes courage. Over the last four years I have been […]
The world has been going to hell, the creek has been rising and life as we know it has been about to end at least as far back as the beginning of recorded history. In the third century BCE the writer of Ecclesiastes bemoaned that there was “nothing new under the sun”; that all was […]