Fear not the flesh nor love it. If you fear it, it will gain mastery over you. If you love it, it will swallow and paralyze you. –Gospel of Philip

The Gnostics are often portrayed as extremists. Not religious extremists as we think of them today, but extreme in how they regarded the body. […]

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We’ve all been there: you’re faced with a tough decision, and you have no idea which way to go. Asking for advice sometimes only goes so far, and weighing out the apparent pros and cons has yielded no clear answer. The logical option is not always the best one, because life is not […]

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What I’m going to post today will probably be fleshed out and given more context by future posts, but well — I’m pissed off now. :P  I’d rather write what’s on my mind rather than spending days on a bunch of intro material and then writing something that has less impact than it’s having on […]

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Today I’ve had an epiphany. A fellow member of a forum I participate on recently wrote a wonderful post on meditation. The point was that meditation is not somethin you do; it is something that happens when you are simply observing, rather than controlling, your experience. The mind will object that it […]

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One of my biggest interests has long been the mind-body connection, specifically as far as it relates to self-healing. It’s something I’ve theorized about and experimented with quite a bit, often with good results. Yesterday I talked about an early experience where I meditated and sent my intentions into a glass of water, […]

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