by Mark Gilbert | Jan 20, 2025 | Blogs, Spiritual Essays, Spiritual Philosophy Series
FYI: This blog represents a draft chapter of my new upcoming book. For more info, see the note at the bottom of this page. Here we offer thoughts on how the movement of rhythm and vibration along the extremes of a polarity are a part of our spiritual growth and...
by Mark Gilbert | Dec 11, 2024 | Blogs, Spiritual Essays, Spiritual Philosophy Series
FYI: This blog represents a draft chapter of my upcoming book. For more info, see the note at the bottom of this page.~Mark “The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” ~ Lao Tzu One of the biggest mysteries...
by Mark Gilbert | Mar 17, 2024 | Blogs, Spiritual Essays, Spiritual Philosophy Series
“There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.” ~ Alan Watts We have discussed that God, The All, The Thing Itself created the universe and imbedded Itself into Its creation. In addition, we have mentioned that God then allowed Its...
by Mark Gilbert | Mar 10, 2024 | Blogs, Spiritual Essays, Spiritual Philosophy Series
“We are potentially perfect, but free will and self-choice cause us to appear imperfect.” ~ Ernest Holmes Up to this point, we have painted a picture of our experiencing physical human life as individuals separate and apart from one another while certain...
by Mark Gilbert | Mar 3, 2024 | Blogs, Spiritual Essays, Spiritual Philosophy Series
“Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.” ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We all know what love is, right? After all, I suspect that most of us have felt the emotion of love, have “fallen in...
by Mark Gilbert | Feb 25, 2024 | Blogs, Misc unused, Spiritual Essays, Spiritual Philosophy Series
“In God, absolute unity is absolute multiplicity, absolute identity is absolute diversity; absolute actuality is absolute potentiality.” ~ Nicolaus Cusanus Ok, everything is a unity, a oneness. All is interconnected. However, we also live in another world...