Tag: truth
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Mirror of the Light, Lead Me Out of the Darkness Dear beloved of God, let me return to my own personal story that brought me to this place and out of that. It was a combination of revelations, single moment of sudden awareness, but also a slow unravelling of certainties and their premises. In this…
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Our Stories of Acceptance, Rejection, Craft, Product, Egoism, Altruism, Mastery, and Power Let us now step back from the individual domains of Resurrexit Spiritus and see how they all weave together into a single and coherent framework. Of course, this is merely a “best” theoretical construct, imperfectly reflecting our human journey toward spirit, which also…
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Faithfulness in Tensions and Contention Paulus’s letters are filled with carefully constructed contradictions. He speaks much of the tensions between flesh and Spirit, of weakness and strength, of law and grace. These tensions are the basis for the human side of his theology. He quotes Jesus, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power…
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Multiverse Insanity If every possible outcome exists in an infinite number of multiverses, then what is the purpose in any action, including the thinking of non-observable multiverses? If everything possible happens, then why should we care about any outcome or any single multiverse at all, for that matter, and what would be the point of…
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When Science Denies the Miracles Foundational to Science and Progress So we confront a doctrine that has shaped modern cosmology and philosophy alike: the mediocrity principle. Mediocrity asserts that we are not special, our galaxy is unremarkable, our solar system is average, and our planet is just one of many in the cosmos. According to…
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Admissions in Practices of Psychiatry and Psychology You do not know everything. I know, big shocker, right? Even if we deny the spiritual entirely, there are still things in any given case which are unknown and, perhaps, unknowable. A person’s obsession with things to gain power may be labelled as “narcissism,” but it could also…
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“Incredulity Made Me Do It”: That Improbability Cop-Out of Scientism The universe’s improbability is the primary argument for the multiverse, so statistical incredulity, essentially. This theory proposes that our observable universe is just one of countless others, each with its own set of physical laws and constants. According to this view, the conditions necessary for…
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Moderating Mutual Denials Using Partial Language Language has the power to shape the cultural psychology. The words we use describe reality and reconstruct it. “Illness” in itself is a frame upon which we hang a perceived problem to be solved; “spiritual influence” on the other hand invites us to consider forces beyond ourselves. Both terms…
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Multiplicity of the Quite Unseen “Seen” Where science and metaphysics collide is the limit of materialist-complete explanations for the greatest and most fundamental phenomena that defy reduction. Naturalist explanations own the roost of the daily ins and outs of the physical world, as grounded by the mysteries in the absolutes that, in turn, defy naturalism.…
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Balance Despite Material Obsession A modern spiritual framework accepts the notion that mental phenomena can arise from interactions with forces beyond our visibly manifest material reality. Possession is such an influence upon our minds, causing reactions we cannot comprehend in the mere material. The key here, as in so many things, is moderation. Such a…