Being beyond dogma: tracking Truth
“Reader of Signs: the ‘Message’ The ‘message’ was delivered to me by a large woman with a mop of dark red, wavy hair, who had been asked at the last moment to ‘fill-in’ for someone else at the workshop held at the University of South Australia. She was, it turned out, a ‘Tarot Card reader’, … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography 1: India
Woke up this morning with the following going on in my head: *Circumstance … *Co-Incidence … “Happenstance” … *Synchronicity On a Path – any path (but particularly the “Path of Return”) – Life for everyone and everything is in a constant state of movement (thus change). In a sense then we all travel by … Continue reading The Long Road to “Synchronicity”
“… there is no such thing as a little falsehood: even a trifle of it turns truth into a lie…” “… even an incomplete truth is tantamount to a lie, for falsehood is not the opposite of truth but its absence.” “… Creation depends on Truth…Truth is so potent that it will prevail and flourish … Continue reading The “Writing On The Wall”: From Stone to Flesh and Back Again
Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Straight people are warned this story may contain pictures and names of people who have passed away. It couldn’t last, could it. After almost ‘normality’ for a year, we were shifting again, this time by choice, after I applied for and won a position as Head Teacher (Principal) of a school … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography 17: Ti Tree 2
It’s warm this morning, probably about 23-4oC after a very warm night and an even hotter day (38oC) yesterday. Speckled grey cloud cover overhead promising unseasonal rain later. Coils burning on the verandah around me to discourage the pesky mosquitoes, who, like many of the flowering plants, are themselves thriving on this unseasonal promise. … … Continue reading Changing Chairs: A Dialogue With the Self
(Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this article contains images of people who may be deceased) The Stuart Highway runs like an artery from the south to the north of Australia, neatly dividing east from west. Like an artery too, it captures the lifeblood that carries people and supplies up and down, … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography 15: Where to from Here?
Life is a journey. From beginning to end there is no certainty of how it will all pan out, the directions it will take, or where it will end. There is the suggestion, of course, that only God knows our beginnings and our endings, and – indeed – that may well be so. But, if … Continue reading ‘What Shall We Call It: “The Road Without End”?
Timing is not something, it is everything. No matter how ‘correct’ an action be, unless the timing is right it will fail, or at the very least, only partially achieve what it would otherwise have accomplished. And for timing to be right, everything else must be done in preparation. Even where the timing is right … Continue reading ‘Timing Is Not Something, It Is Everything!’
On Re-Reading Ibn al-‘Arabi, ‘The Names of God’, Wahdat al-Wujud or “Oneness of Being” and “The Dream that changed my Life” According to William C. Chittick, in his introduction to the chapter on ‘The Most Beautiful Names [of God]’ in ‘The Meccan Revelations,’ Vol.1 (Chapter 558 of The Futuhat)1 Chittick summarises Ibn al-‘Arabi’s own opening … Continue reading “What’s in a Word: The Name of God”
“Forgiveness” Suzy picked-up another card from those that I had chosen. “This card”, she said, “speaks of forgiveness…someone you need to forgive, or who should forgive you.” Again, she held my eyes steadily, “it’s very important that this happens”! * By now, returned from my sojourn on the highway [see appendix 2, Spiritual Autobiography 9 … Continue reading Spiritual Autobiography 10: “Forgiveness”
Tracks in a Pathless Land 