Aldous Huxley invented the word psychedelic in 1957, shortly after LSD became well known, but shamans had been using mind altering substances for thousands of years to induce healing  and spiritual and mystical experiences.  Psyche comes from a Greek word meaning "soul" and delic from a word meaning "to make visible"  Thousands of years earlier the ( Read more... )

I ask God to male me free of 'God,".....  -- Meister Eckhart.

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What is Left to Say ( Read more... )

Richard Rohr' meditattions on Fransciscan spirituality lasst week bore, for some reason, the heading "alternativve orthodoxy.  Without refeerence to the content of these meditations, i thought that this was a strange juxtaposition of concepts.  Would orthodoxy still be orthodoxy if allowed for alternatives.( Read more... )

At the suggestion of my 12-step program sponser, i started to attend AA meetings.  This i did each week from August througjh Deccember, and i plan to resume attendance as soon as my strength is back. ( Read more... )

"My life flows on like an endless song ( Read more... )

The best, like water ( Read more... )

"Rdligion is for people who are scared to go to hell, spirituality is for people who have already  been there." -- Bonnie Raiitt

( An important contribution was made to spirituality in the belly of materialist culture in 1935 when two sick alcoholics met in Akron, OH for what may have been the first AA meeting. Read more... )