The Walk Back Home

  It's OK for a born-again Christian to do whatever they want. You have to remember that the Bible was originally written to be   interpretive.   The Church is what enforces dogma and tells you that such-and-such passage means this, such-and-such passage means that. The point of Christ's teachings were to encourage self-exploration and spiritual discovery. The Church is, ironically, at odds with a number of the things that Christ himself taught. It could be worth your time to get a copy of the Red Text bible, which outlines all the words that Christ himself spoke. If you summarize his teachings (which, one would assume, should form the foundation of a religion called  CHRISTIANITY)  you'll find that they're actually in opposition to a lot of what the Church teaches. In fact, Christ himself often advocated against going to church. There are tons of verses in the Bible that suggest that the Inner Church is the place where the real magic happens. Acts 17-24 “The Go...

Thought & the Origins of the Individual Ego Your thoughts don't define you. In fact, your thoughts don't really have much to do with your True Self at all (insofar as much as you exist, anyways). The average person's mind is like a Mexican jumping bean, with thoughts bouncing to and fro all throughout the day. As adults, these thoughts are charged with emotional content. Perhaps we worry if we should have said that thing, or if we'll do well at our test, or if we're really doing our best in life. However, these thoughts weren't always charged with content. As newborns, we have no distinction between our Self and the external world. Since we have no frame of reference and have not yet contended with duality, our thoughts have no actual content. Before being imprinted, a newborn's 'thought process' would be more like the pure creative essence of thought - a sea of potential that isn't yet defined by external circumstances. However, as we grow o...

For most of our day-to-day living, the vast expanse of our mind is filled with erratic thinking. The monkey mind runs the show, our egoic thought impulses rattle about in our minds, and our unchecked inner dialogue rides our trains of thought off the rails. The egoic voice, which often speaks to us from the second person (" you're not good enough! what are you doing? I can't believe you did that!" ), can easily be seen as something separate from us since it rarely communicates in the first-person. Rarely does our internal monologue tell us that, " I messed this up," or that " I'm not good enough for this." The Ego: Protecting Through Self-Sabotage But somehow, it's still all-too-easy to identify with this voice. Even though the ego addresses us as a separate being, it still manages to hijack our internal monologue and convince us that these are our thoughts . However, the point of this post is less about trying to dissociate from our monkey...