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Though I was raised in the progressive, justice-focused Lutheran Christianity of my parents, over time I have come to identify as humanist or spiritually independent because my personal sense of the spiritual arises from many diverse sources within and outside of the...

Photo by Robin Stuart on Unsplash   Knowing more than Human Self is an enormous part of this journey. It takes time, I am not going to lie, many in the ‘old ways’ of journeying to know self, aren’t at a space to consider that through their separation they have...

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was born in Amsterdam and lived in the Dutch Republic, where he worked as a lens grinder.  In 1655-56, He was expelled from the Jewish religious community, but his love of philosophy brought him a small but dedicated circle of supporters. In...

The Third Law of Thermodynamics says that energy seeks to move from areas of high heat to low heat until a calm equilibrium of everything is attained.  Water at a high level will flow to a lower level whenever it can.  The force of gravity causes the water to move...

Riffing off the post about Belonging, it’s funny it stays within me. The words we write become the conversations within, maybe even the dreams as we sleep. But with belonging, it also becomes every awake moment. We are - when we seek to belong - dreaming with our eyes...