The most famous figures in religious history are often prophets who spoke to multitudes, kings who built great temples, or reformers who challenged empires. However, there was a great mind in spirituality in the sixteenth century that died at thirty-eight years old, did not write much, and spent the majority of his life teaching a small number of scholars in the remote Galilee Mountains of Modern Day Israel. He was

There is an ancient genetic programming within all living species that is based on individual survival without which there would probably be no humans or living organisms walking on earth today. This has been a very dark place for all life forms because it represents a primal energy whose main instinct when threatened is aggression.  In animals, this natural ferocity is embodied in the behavior of a mother when her

Our human body grows; so, does our human mind. Our body grows in stature, our mind in wisdom. Furthermore, our mind rises up from one level to another. It goes from being earthly to being spiritual, and from being spiritual to being divine. At the lowest level we are knowledgeable; at the middle level we have understanding; at the highest level we are wise. This rising of the mind, though,

The Inner and Outer Thought In our earthly world we have two types of thought, inner thought and outer thought, and because of that we have two modes of verbal communication. We are able to talk on the basis of both our inner and outer thought at the same time, and we are able to talk on the basis of our outer thought separate from our inner thought. In fact, we

It is The Human Spirit That Thinks A desire to know the truth is one thing.  A desire to understand the truth is another thing.  And a desire to see the truth is something else. A desire for what is true is one thing.  A grasp of what is true is another thing.  and thinking what is true is something else.  When people do not have a clear grasp of

As humans, when we make a conscious effort to attend to our growth and development just as all creatures of the animal and plant kingdom, we will begin to recognize that humans have distinct mechanisms for their mental, emotional, spiritual and soul development. Just as caterpillars attend to their development to become butterflies or as seeds attend to their development to become trees, we humans have a divine plan for

“The intelligent will shine like the radiance of the firmament, and those who have justified many, like stars forever”  (Daniel 12:3) Not many people know who are meant by “the intelligent” and “those who justify.” The common opinion is that these are the people we call scholarly and learned, especially the ones who have had teaching roles at universities, scientists or even smart politicians. People who have surpassed others in

The Trap of Selective Compassion We often think of people as either compassionate or not compassionate and regard the former as morally superior. But compassion is usually selective, and this poses problems. The most striking example of selective compassion was Hitler. He was a vegetarian and opposed vivisection of animals. His case was extreme, but the syndrome is typical. Millions of people have more compassion for fetuses than for starving

The concept of enlightenment originated from Buddhist teachings, which began with the understanding of nothingness/void or darkness. Out of that darkness, consciousness/light is born. Jesus died, went to darkness, and was resurrected as light. So, if we need to develop our energy, we have to cultivate a relationship with the void. This is why traditional meditation involves closing your eyes and piercing through the dark.  The problem here is that