This post is an updated version of a post from Christmas 2013: What is it that is born, again and again - on Christmas day and in each new life, and in each moment of everyday? Perhaps it is symbolic of another ongoing kind of birth - the birth that brings renewal throughout our lifetime …
Tag: God
Say Yes Quickly
Below is one of my favorite poems by Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi. This one is a translation by the American poet, Coleman Barks.There is an interview with Coleman here, in which he speaks to the idea, near and dear to my heart, that ecstatic states are not necessarily limited to transcendent, meditative states that one patiently works years to experience, but …
Primordial Necessity
My impatient fate Approaches me, Stepping zealously On the air. It approaches me quietly, Without noise, It comes from The remote area. And I feel That in no time, It’ll open With its burning fingers The sacred, the whitest Door of mine. Tsira Gogeshvili "Original Sin is accounted for by the sin in the Originals. Humans …
The Holy Birthing
If Christmas is about a birthday, and the Holy birthday of the Christ child, what is it that is trying to be born in the repeating of this holiday each year? Why do we celebrate birthdays or Christmas? What does the ritual want with us? What is it that is born, again and again - on …
God Only Knows
Dear Mr. Bloom, I love your books. I have read The Lucifer Principle, Genius of the Beast and The Global Brain and am currently reading The God Problem. So, I am a big fan even though we may disagree about God and the Problem...although I do agree that what we call God and how we …
Theoria 