In Mahayana Buddhism there are beautiful devotions to maternal, compassionate, deities. These deities are not actual gods but are representations of our true, divine, and compassionate nature, which exists beyond illusory ego identity. The ‘Tara’ is a maternal deity who represents a state of profound loving kindness. She is a maternal, compassionate being devoted to…
Self knowledge is one aspect of human transformation. Integration is the significant next step beyond self knowledge (i.e., integrating insights of self knowledge into the psyche). The psychology of compassion is hugely important with safely facing our shadow material, including our rigid defence mechanisms which often become intertwined with our biases and prejudices. The activation…
One evening I said to my soul,“What secrets do you hold? WhatHave you veiled from my humanMind?” And my soul replied: We always have been and alwaysWill be. I veil our beautyAnd divinity from you for your sake.If you knew who you areAnd whence you came,You could not bear this world.” And in response I…
When we think of the word compassion, we associate it with the attribute of kindness. Compassion does consist of kindness. However, it also consists of far more. Professor Paul Gilbert (OBE) is a renown clinical psychologist who has made significant contributions to the field of compassionate mental health care. He speaks of compassion as being…
The transfiguration was a revealing by Jesus to his closest disciples of the luminous reality of the true universe of divine light and life from which we all came and to which we will all return. He is the self realised light of Christ, which is our true nature as boundless love/light but which we…
Intuition and intuitive knowing is as natural to humans as is breathing, through sadly, most of humanity keeps their precious third eye of non dual perception, tightly closed. We deny ourselves entry to the gateway of mysticism without even realising we are doing it. At the gateway divinity meets us and lifts up our consciousness…
Over the past year I have been researching the early Church phenomenon of Gnosticism. I have found it a fascinating and helpful study in coming to understand the diverse nature of early Christianity and the dynamics behind it. I’m currently engaged with a course of lectures by Professor David Brakkie of the University of Ohio,…
The more I have considered the work of some very talented scientists, in particular Jude Currivan PhD and Dr Donald Hoffman, the more I am coming to be persuaded that the nature of the universe is Holographic. This theory has credibility with scientists from institutions such as Cambridge, Princeton and Columbia. Currivan more cautiously uses…
The human intellect, even the greatest intellect, is fallible and and limited when facing the immense nature of a limitless universe. Wisdom on the other hand has little relationship to the intellect. Wisdom doesn’t process problems through rational, deductive logic, but rather utilises and guides the intellect In the process of knowing and understanding. The…