Ecumenical Mysticism

Today, I came across the phrase “a god-fearing people”, and it struck a chord, almost as if I were hearing it for the first time. I should clarify that it struck a dissonant chord. It felt immediately “off”. Wrong, or at least problematic. So I began to ponder the phrase and my intuitive rejection of it. 

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I saw a post in the forums over at StevePavlina.com: “How do you nicely deal with skeptics?” And before I even read it, I thought to myself “What is there to be skeptical about?” Immediately, I tried to understand my response, because I wasn’t really sure what I meant. I’ve been thinking about it all afternoon.

Here’s the best I’ve come up with so far: Read the rest of this entry »

I mean universal truth as described in The Tenets of Ecumencial Mysticism. I don’t claim to know what that is…I’m just using the word “god” as a label, a kind of abbreviation. I could call it UT for “universal truth”, or OAE for “the origin of all of existence”, but using words like that would detract from readability in a way that might create obstacles to understanding.

Of course, the counter-argument, and it’s a good one, is that using the word “god” Read the rest of this entry »

Last time, in Why It Doesn’t Matter What You Believe, we began to examine the human need to be right. I concluded with a question directed at intollerant fundamentalists everywhere: “If you really believe it’s all absolutely true, why the insecurity?”

Because the need to be right IS insecurity. It’s a human response to a sense of uncertainty, a fear of ignorance and powerlessness. Being right evokes feelings of mastery, of power; and let’s face it, these feel better than feeling stupid and impotent. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m interested in mysticism, a direct experience of god.

So it might seem strange to hear me say that it doesn’t matter what I believe. But that’s what I’m saying. It doesn’t matter what I believe, and it doesn’t matter what you believe. It doesn’t matter if we’re right, and it doesn’t matter if we’re wrong.

Because, and get this, the point is not to “be right”. The point is Read the rest of this entry »

I accept the following statements as true, inasmuch as statements about eternal, infinite, immutable truth can be true when cast in the crude languages we humans are obliged to utilize.

I expect you to accept them as well. I’ve got some nerve, haven’t I? Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to Ecumenical Mysticism. I am your host. Your guide, perhaps, although I don’t claim to possess any special mastery of this terrain.

Let’s just agree that we’ll be partners on a journey. Let’s acknowledge that we’ll each find our own path, and that we’ll walk it at our own pace. I don’t expect you to follow me. I just want to share the things I learn along the way, in hopes that you may benefit from them.