Topic: Soul Identity

Five AM

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Multnomah Falls, Oregon

During creative periods of my life, whether working on an interesting project or – as I am currently doing – writing a book, I often wake up around 5 am with a powerful insight, new idea, or an answer to a problem that has troubled me. I wish I could take credit for these thoughts, but they seem to come out of nowhere – gifts from the Ethereal…

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What a Lucky Man I Am

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Ocean Spit

As I walk the many paths I’ve been, through forests and mountains and ocean cliffs, I often think to myself, “What a lucky man I am to have lost the fear to live.”

Introspections

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Buddha at the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden

I spent quite a bit of time the last few days looking deep within. Looking into my story. Finding nothing there to grasp hold of. In trying to clarify it, I’m refining my basic “levels” of spiritual development…

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Source and the Man of Steel

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

Yosemite Valley

What I look like and who I am are two totally different people. Inside, there is almost no one left. At times I feel nothing but this radiating flowing outward (no nouns, just verbs). But what people see on the outside is almost completely different…

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Happy Rebirth-day!

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Easter Bunny

Five minutes after my brother called to wish me a Happy Easter, this little fellow showed up in my camp. I took these things as a sign that I should post my thoughts about the holiday…

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TLC

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Bird on a Branch

I’ve been fighting a cold (or maybe the dreaded Valley Fever) the last few days and as Quinzelle mentioned in the last post’s comments, maybe I’m due for some TLC. Here’s someone who could really use some TLC (she’s got some major surgery coming up)…

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Painful Decisions

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Cactus Spikes

Even for the Soul, life can be painful….

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Being the Soul: A Useful Lie

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Desert Plant

I want you to lie to yourself today. Ironically, with this lie, I expect you’ll experience life lived True…

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Return to Lake Pleasant

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

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I’ve been feeling the need to be near water. Since I had to move my rig to get my propane tank refilled, I used the opportunity to return to Lake Pleasant.

Below are a couple of nice emails I’ve received in the last few days. Used with permission…

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The Evolution of a Book

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Desert Cactus

If you’re at all like me (and really, what idiot would be?), when faced with a big creative project like writing a book, the first thing you should do is just relinquish all control over the process because, quite frankly, you don’t have a clue where it is going to head…

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Is it Meaningful?

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Driftwood Stump

Stop. Look around you. Look at what you’ve accomplished, at what you’ve created. Look at this moment right now and realize that everything in your life has led you here – to this moment. To right now. Your father’s life. your mother’s. Your grandparents, great grandparents, all the way back through history – back to the dawning of Time. Their actions have created this exact moment. This point in your life. If any one action, one decision, one hesitation was done different – you wouldn’t be here.

Think about it. Are you living up to this miracle?

Insight into my Abandonment Issues from a Past Life

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Past Life as a Taoist Monk

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Many of my past lives have revealed a pattern of abandonment—either I leave loved ones, or they leave me. Though I stress that we shouldn’t identify with our past lives—thus adding them to our ego story—we can, and should, learn from any patterns that we see repeated in multiple lives.

A Feeling of Tension

Early yesterday morning, as I lay in bed, I put the headphones on and listened to my “Past Life Recall” mp3. I had been feeling lately like there was a key… something, that I was missing and hoped that the recording could help.

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Reincarnation as the Missing Spiritual Link

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

A Park in Phoenix, AZ

I had posted a comment on a Near Death Experience Yahoo Forum and got what read like a bit of attitude from one of the readers, probably due to a misunderstanding of my terminology. My clarification is below the break, but the point I was trying to make was that thinking of yourself as a Soul is not a hinderance to enlightenment, but rather a very important step

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