For Part I in this series, click here. For Part II, here. -- When I used to write at Beams and Struts we often spoke of post-postmodern (or integral) thought. While the term post-postmodernism is quite jargony, the idea behind it is easy to grasp. Post-postmodern is an...
[Author's Introduction] On Monday I published Part I of this series. It looked at the case of Jian Ghomeshi and the media response to it. In that piece I argued there was a missing element of the pain of men. From there I laid out a...
The news in Canada this week has been dominated by accusations of sexual abuse by Canadian Broadcasting Company radio personality Jian Ghomeshi (the story has gotten some attention in the US press). The controversy began when Ghomeshi made a public announcement on his Facebook page...
Sam Harris, one of the so-called New Atheists, has been making waves recently with his new book Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. In it Harris talks openly about his meditation practice and spiritual experience--something he has done before but doesn’t seem to have...
If you’ve ever read any self-help books or attended any personal development workshops or gone to any number of spiritual retreats you’ll very likely have come across the idea of maintaining a high vibration. I hear it all the time. A quick Google search of high vibration...
“The ways of spirit are not the ways of sacrifice, but rather a way of opening yourself fully to the infinite glories of the universe.” --Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation (p.2) When I initially read this line from Marianne Williamson's book my first thought was...
Back in my days as a parish priest, I once gave a sermon (this one in fact, in audio even!). There’s a line in the sermon about how I found the spiritual vision laid out in the reading that day (on The Transfiguration of Jesus)...
In the last year I’ve transitioned from working as a full-time pastor to now working more in the, how do I say this, non-institutionalized version of spirituality popular nowadays. Now that I work in the realm of soul readings, energy healing, and imaginal capacities, I...
My dad has spent his professional life working as a project manager at a general construction firm. General construction firms build large buildings or complexes of buildings--usually commercial in nature. When I was a little boy I remember my dad coming home with huge sets...
I believe devotion is perhaps the single most important and neglected issue in contemporary spiritual practice. Part of that neglect I think is due to the challenge that faces anyone who tries to describe devotion. Devotion is actually a very difficult subject to discuss. It’s a...