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Breathing in, I am trying to remember to breathe in.

Breathing out, I am trying to remember to trust the universe to provide…

The mail has come and gone bringing me more bills to pay.

But, no paycheck!

I am angry. I am frustrated and I am trying to prevent myself from having a full throttle temper tantrum. Why is it that I can mail a package to a ( Read more... )

We prefer the term non-theist to the more frequently used atheist or agnostic. While the assignation of non-theist may mean atheist too many and indeed many atheists refer to themselves as non-theists - we prefer to describe our Gnostic spirituality as non-theistic or as non-theism.

This may seem like a coy game of semantics to you, and we will ( Read more... )

It has been years since the church preached that the body is solely a vessel of sin. Yet centuries of teaching have the effects of this anti-life belief lingering in our collective spiritual consciousness. This idea was not just the sole nonsense of the Christian Church. The heterodox schools of Christianity - so often labeled Gnostic - taught that ( Read more... )

 
Absurd proliferation creates surplus populations. Surplus populations dwell in poverty, disease and the threat of violence. If hunger or disease doesn’t take them then some asshole with a gun or knife will. Yet Catholic and Muslim clerics encourage people to procreate beyond their means and do it with the threat of God’s wrath hanging over their ( Read more... )

 
The discrepancies of the Bible have never been a problem for me. My faith is not predicated on the need of biblical inerrancy. People who look at the Jewish and Christian scriptures needing them to be an unbroken line of historical accuracy are setting themselves up for heartbreak. One group seems to find the inaccuracies to be so credulous as to ( Read more... )

 
The value of monotheism is that God becomes portable. Deity - ineffable and without form - is no longer tied to a specific place or people. The ineffable is carried around in the hearts of those who answer the call and choose to believe. Deity has no form and therefore has all forms; no face and therefore all faces. Yet to talk in terms of form ( Read more... )