by Doug Hammack | Dec 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
A Fresh Perspective! What a prize! Like so many others today, I have become disenchanted with traditional Christianity. Here is a fresh perspective, seemingly “new”, but actually reaching back into the origins of our faith, to the ancient beliefs and...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Even though I’m hard at work on a book deadline, I couldn’t not post this. A friend Mayumi, is off traveling the world the rest of this year. From faraway lands, she sent me this graduation speech. It’s longer than my 500 world-limit, and will take...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
So, I wrote a book. It evolved from a project we did at NRCC, precipitated by our recognition that the Christian Church has grown deeply ill. Our very instincts as Christians are betraying us. We zig when the spiritual life calls for a zag. So we did a year-long...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
All spiritual traditions have developed apophatic spiritual practices. While the practices themselves are quite diverse, as we’ve seen in these posts, the intent of each remains the same; to awaken us to the observer-self we carry within ourselves. All the practices...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
The focus of apophatic spirituality, we’ve seen in these last posts, is to pay attention to the observer-self within us. We all have impulses, thoughts, feelings, instincts, and reactions. It is also true that we tend to have these in a repetitive pattern. Creatures...
by Doug Hammack | Jul 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
As we saw in the last post, the observer-self is a deep part of human consciousness. Also, it is a part of us that doesn’t lend itself to analysis. We saw that, as we observe the observer, we become the observer. This being the case, studying the observer-self;...
