Being beyond dogma: tracking Truth
It’s not easy leaving a partner and one’s children after nearly 13 years together. So much shared history. So many memories, not all good to be sure, otherwise why would one go through such trauma, but humans being humans what stays with us are, in the main, the shared good times, and it is these … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography 9: “Moving On”
‘Meeting Dana’ Perhaps ‘synchronicity’ was already working its ‘magic’ behind the scenes, in spite of my stupidity, or ignorance of its ‘magic.’ We had been living only a short while in our new home in the hot, dry climate that is the eastern edge of the Adelaide Hills, when the pressing issue of the children’s … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography 8: Changes, Changes, Changes, All is Changes
The Invocation of Inayat Khan: “Towards the One…” There is only ‘One.’ In Islam, the surah al-Ikhlas (112) says, “God is One without a second…” “…The Perfection of Love, Harmony, and Beauty…” Nothing on this earth or in this whole universe lasts for more than a moment, but in that moment, and the next, … Continue reading “One Without a Second”
"Dropping Out and Tuning In" By 1981, at the ripe old age of thirty-four I knew something had to change. I had been working since leaving school at fifteen years of age in a variety of jobs, mostly unsatisfactory (at least from my damaged perspective), nearly ten years of military service, and five years in … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography 7 (A Brief but necessary DIGRESSION)
Three years ago now, almost to the day, I began to Blog “Tracks in a Pathless Land”, a personal encounter with Truth based on my own experience of it through tracing the hidden pathways, places, and byways of the mystics journey through ‘time’ and ‘space’. My Blog page opens with this quote (for those who … Continue reading “Where Are They, These Hidden Paths?”
Reform – Re-form – Reformation Every day a new day. Every day a new opportunity. Every day a new chance. Every day a new choice – old or new? As we awake, come to consciousness each morning, and begin to become aware of our selves, both in an inner and an outer form, if we … Continue reading Every Day a New Beginning
“Remote, Remoter, Remotest! (But first some ‘preliminaries!)” After several years of refusing to leave Adelaide because I needed to be available to my two oldest children, I suddenly found myself qualified to teach, and, along with Dana, being offered positions in a remote school in the Western Desert country of the Northern Territory. The school … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography: 6 (Beyond India – the Path continues)
When we recapitulate “The Fall” we learn what is and what isn’t True/true. According to Simnani (in Laleh Bakhtiar, ‘Sufi: Expressions of the Mystic Quest’, pp96-7, Thames and Hudson, UK, 1997) there is an arc of descent which has its mirror in the arc of ascent. The former is the descent through light into Manifestation … Continue reading From Light to Darkness: Recapitulating the Fall
Hubris and Humility The problem with hubris is that one is often, perhaps always, unaware in the acts which disclose its presence! This morning I finished writing a piece (Blogged as “Time and Its Opposite” - todays date) which I felt well conveyed elements of something that has troubled me for a very long time … Continue reading Time and Its Opposite: A Companion Piece
The Folly of Misuse Time does not have an ‘opposite,’ but, then again, ‘time’ itself is a fantasy, a human construct imagined into existence by the fertile human mind to serve a purpose. Why then do mystics and other such constantly contrast time and timeless, as if they were opposites in some form? One finds … Continue reading Time and Its Opposite?
Tracks in a Pathless Land 