Article by Doug Esse How do we hold the paradoxes together? Many new agers feel liberated through leaning into spirituality while rejecting religion. I sure understand the impulse. On the other hand, many religious people criticize new age spirituality as lacking a rootedness and meaningful anchors onto which we cling when life really gets hard … Continue reading Is Your Spirituality Rooted, Embodied, and Able to Hold Paradoxes with an Open Heart?
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The Trinity: The Nature of God and God’s Creation
Article by Doug Esse In honor of the Holy Trinity Sunday, I am reposting something I recently wrote as a dialog between a theology-minded friend and myself. Thank you for reading.... _________________ The following may be of interest to a few. It is a dialog between a fellow member of small online community for those … Continue reading The Trinity: The Nature of God and God’s Creation
Law of One Graphics of the Triune Nature of the Infinite Creator
Author: Doug Esse The following is yet another attempt to flesh out some thoughts on the Law of One and the triune nature of the One Infinite Creator. Nothing gives more pleasure than to ponder the unponderable, and words (and graphics!) are just approximations; poor attempts at grappling with the nature of Being and Becoming. … Continue reading Law of One Graphics of the Triune Nature of the Infinite Creator
The Trinity as the Infinite Creator Experiencing Itself: Love!
Author: Doug Esse The Christian notion of the Trinity is simply the "formula" or "pattern" that must exist in order for there to be creation. The following is my attempt to graph this out in simplistic ways. Don't get caught up in the words, especially "Father" or "Son" but rather, notice the ungirding dynamic at … Continue reading The Trinity as the Infinite Creator Experiencing Itself: Love!
A Radical Intimacy: How the Law of One and Mystical Christianity Are the Same
I dedicate this article to Leon Isaac Kennedy, a Christ for others. —D.E. —————— The word "radical" means "roots" in Latin. This is important because the Christian message is saying that at the root of it all, the experience of union with the Infinite Creator is felt as a rooted intimacy with everything and everyone. … Continue reading A Radical Intimacy: How the Law of One and Mystical Christianity Are the Same
There and Back Again: The Cosmic Tale
Love has a structuring. Ra states that "the origin of all energy is the action of free will upon love. The nature of all energy is light" (54.27). As the Infinite Creator's White Light passed through the prism/concept of "Finity," the Seven Densities were created. Densities are akin to Divine Chakras on the macro scale. … Continue reading There and Back Again: The Cosmic Tale
The Law of One: An Encounter
Author: Doug Esse The following is my own pass at the Law of One. I ask the reader for forgiveness for my own limitations in understanding it and in relating it to you. However, it is with great joy that I endeavor to do so since few things have brought me so deeply into joy … Continue reading The Law of One: An Encounter
Adepthood
In my own journey, I desire this only: 1) To live in conscious union with the Infinite Creator; 2) to follow the example set forth by Jesus of Nazareth; 3) to express the first two desires as a white, or positive, adept. What is an adept? All creatures return to the Source at some point. … Continue reading Adepthood