For life circumstances that may unfold in a variety of ways, the alternate reality sought by prayer emerges in a manner similar to the sculptor’s statue. Read more
Just as a film director might make requests that are easy to fulfill (e.g. dialog changes) or some that are not (superhuman feats by an actor). some prayer intentions may be realized more readily than others. Read more
1. God said, ‘This is My Body.’ God is a grandmother, a baker-woman kneading the present moment into the loaf of the future, just like she kneaded the quark-saturated cosmos from the blob of no-thing-ness before there was a Big Bang. Neither the Christian Logos nor the Hindu Om is really a word, nor is it an abstruse divine principle but, rather, the frequency of God incarnating. The Big Bang was the sound of God laughing when She conceived this... Read more
Each of us is a butterfly-in-Brazil flapping its colorful, delicate wings and thus helping to create the weather patterns in California. Each of us, as we dip our oars into the ocean of incarnation, is creating ripples. You are helping to spin off a new timeline in which all creatures swim. Read more
Traditionally, prayer (“1.0”) is thought of as a verbalized, rationally stated request or wish, to be implemented by a higher power with the agency to do so. Read more
The following is an attempt to update ancient notions of prayer and its effects in view of current understanding in areas of physics, cosmology, and the psychological sciences. Read more
Much of who we consider ourselves to be in the moment, how we evaluate things and make decisions, how to decide what we can or cannot do, is based on our memory of similar circumstances in the past. Read more
Ubiquitous as time seems to be, it’s fundamental nature continues to be a matter of some debate. Up through the time of Issac Newton, time was thought simply to be a basic, common property of the cosmos. Read more
The following are some exploratory thoughts about the meaning of prayer in light of current understanding of the sciences, human psychology, and of the cosmos at large. There may be an intersection between science and spirituality after all. Read more