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Letting Go

By John Cross Posted on June 11, 2017

I have recently been reminded of an excellent song by the band Kansas entitled, “Dust in the Wind.”  It is a song I remember hearing and enjoying as a child, as it came out in January of 1978 when I …

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No Absolutes?

By John Cross Posted on December 27, 2015

I have lately been finding myself exploring some thoughts which have been continually recurring in my mind with regards to both theists and atheists, and the essence of their views on reality.  I have come to realize that on the whole, …

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Life Without God?

By John Cross Posted on November 3, 2014

In my previous post, we learned there are two fundamental principles of oneness – stasis and change. We also learned the principle of change is what is responsible for “creating” energy, or the “stuff” we see and observe in the world …

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What Does the Lord Require?

By John Cross Posted on October 7, 2014

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, …

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The Illusion of “Sin”

By John Cross Posted on April 24, 2014

When I look back on the trajectory of my life, I can see how the creation of “The Mystical Voice” was in many ways, inevitable. My desire to understand all of the things which were drilled into my head in …

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The Weak and the Strong

By John Cross Posted on November 25, 2013

As I work through the revelations in my last post about the likely roots of Christianity belonging to Rome, I have come to realize an additional motivation for the creation of religions.  In the past, I focused mainly on how we as …

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It’s Not About “Me”

By John Cross Posted on April 13, 2013

I have said it over and over again on this site – the truth ego is illusion, and all which serves to justify the ego is illusion and is ultimately, not true.  While the ego is ultimately illusory, it is not necessarily …

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Human BEING…

By John Cross Posted on January 24, 2013

The ego is the very notion of identity – the notion of “I,” or “me,” as separate and distinct from “other.”  One of the ways the ego distinguishines and defines itself from others is it clings to ideas it finds appealing to itself, …

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True Faith, True Love

By John Cross Posted on January 15, 2013

Throughout my writings on this site, I speak very critically of faith, because it is the acceptance as true that for which we have neither evidence, or at least good evidence, nor sound reasoning, which is the essence of laziness, dishonesty, and untruthfulness. What …

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The Creator IS the Created

By John Cross Posted on July 14, 2012

One of the problems people can run into when contemplating the mysteries of the universe, is in believing there must have been a “beginning” to it all.  This comes from our perception of the illusion of time, created by the ego, …

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