Who Made God?
We live as forms of conscious energy which are aware of the limits of our forms, as well as the limits of other forms, which is ultimately responsible for our sense of “self” as separate from “other.” While our sense …
Author: John Cross
What Does the Lord Require?
It can be quite perplexing to clearly understand all of the things the Lord God requires, especially within the context of Christian scripture and theology. On the one hand, it seems we have to be “perfectly holy” in our words, …
Transcendental Aspirations
When we contemplate the essential core of all the meanderings of our lives, motivations, and aspirations, we are often tempted in our self-importance to presume we do these things for some “exalted” or “transcendental” reason. While these romantic notions are …
The Opium of the People
When a doctor prescribes pain medication to us when our pain is unmanageable, we are grateful to be given relief from that pain. Often, we are in so much pain that all we know is our desire to be rid …
The Authority-Driven Life
As I watched the pastor at the church where I work proceed with the Communion ceremony yesterday, it dawned on me the essence of the entire problem with religious faith. It all centers on the concept of authority. In our …
Prove It
There are three simple steps we can take to uncover the Truth about our traditional concepts of God and religion, particularly within Judeo-Christian, Islamic traditions. Recognize the fact that all contradictions and double-standards are false. Recognize the fact that all …
Being Reconciled
In my last two posts, we discovered that opposites are not separate and independent realities, but different aspects of the same One. While it is relatively simple to understand the fact that in dealing with opposites, one cannot exist without …
Only One
In my last post on “Contradictions and Double-Standards,” we learned that opposites are not separate realities, but different aspects of the same One. We learned this must be the case because under the belief in “separate,” opposite, “independent” realities, as …
Contradictions and Double-Standards
As I have worked through many realizations while writing on “The Mystical Voice,” there have been several personal “breakthroughs” in awareness I have made, in much the same way this happened for me back in the fall of 1998 when …
Excuses for God
I admit I lose patience with those who try to make a “moral point” by quoting the Bible. While there are many wonderful and truthful passages in the Bible which can serve as good advice and words of wisdom, such …