by Doug Hammack | Feb 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
When we imagine God as the soil in which everything that exists is rooted, it awakens very different spiritual sensibilities. When we imagine God as the rich substrate of Divine Love, we begin to think of everything; every man, every woman, every antelope and tree and...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
I need to mitigate what I said in the last post somewhat. I made the idea of God-as-Powerful-Being seem a pretty toxic notion. I interpreted Psalm 139 in the most unflattering light, making God out to be a threatening, celestial, Big Brother, harshly monitoring and...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Take a quick read of Psalm 139 HERE. If your god is limited to a human-like image, and in particular, if you share the commonly held instinct about god that he is a he, and that he’s just a little bit miffed at how badly human beings behave… then wouldn’t be...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
When we limit ourselves to only one way of thinking of God, it is usually as a “being;” a supreme being to be sure, but a human-like being. As we’ve seen, these efforts to fit God into our heads end up limiting our spiritual experience. When we reduce God to...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
The impulse to speak authoritatively about the nature of God is powerful. We have a strong need to “be in the know.” But as we’ve said before, that mindset… doesn’t take into account an ancient and venerated doctrine: the Ineffability of God. it’s not very...
by Doug Hammack | Feb 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
As we’re seeing in the last several posts, when we realize we are part of a connected whole, it fundamentally changes how we approach conflict resolution. It is only in the short run that I can “win” by defeating you. It is only in the short run that I can...
