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I’ve never been fond of that definition. And not sure why. Too complicated? (That’s a hoot, considering it’s coming from me, a person known for complicated variations on the theme!). Hope placed up front too much (although “substance” suggests a solid base behind mere wishful hope)? Still not...

Thanks for participating. I simply mean act of faith that helps us cope well, instead of the belief system. Adjective instead of noun?

Based on this poem ( Happy Accident Hope is a happy accident of faith. But don’t get over your skies, lest you tumble down the slope of expectation, where your broken body of belief will freeze. ) I’d like to get your thoughts about “hope.” My thinking lately is that faith trumps...

My comment before this ( in response to this — 2. and 3. may not be wrong, but 1. certainly is not all right. There are moments in life when we have a legitimate, non-sick, need to summon up support when and where it seems absent or lean. A view of the deep zone (or other areas) of hidden...

2. and 3. may not be wrong, but 1. certainly is not all right. There are moments in life when we have a legitimate, non-sick, need to summon up support when and where it seems absent or lean. A view of the deep zone (or other areas) of hidden resources is sometimes aided by personification.

That’s quite a chew! Just now got around to reading briefly through. Quite a chew and don’t yet have a clue!!!!

If individual objects or beings can’t be real without a context of relationships with other things, then if a person relates to God (imaginary or not, from an objective reality perspective) God is to that person real. If we don’t relate to God (whatever God is or isn’t) then God is not real...

I’m a lifelong Christian, but now that I belong to a progressive church in a fairly affluent area, I often think that a mixing in of Buddhism would fit better with our situation, since the Buddha had plenty (like us) and saw riches beyond the materialism. We need to grow spiritually more than we...

Is there room in an interfaith community and/or marketplace of thoughts for “trans-theism”? In which God is both real and not real, exists and not exists? I dreamed last night that I was philosophizing that singular things aren’t real unless relative to other things. It was a yen/yang kind of...

Perhaps we should apply the Nike slogan to Brahman? Just do it!

But the Oneness we are discussing here CAN help us integrate inner and outer resources. A calling out for in a social/interpersonal sense, but more like stepping into, or aligning with, in an intentional being sense. The Judeo/Christian tradition is awfully social and personifies spiritual...

I like that a lot. Similar to the observer effect postulated in Quantum Physics Theory, in which regular human consciousness during the act of observation tends to make quanta act more like a particle than a wave (reverse madusa—creature described in Homer’s The Odyssey— that would turn the...

The notion of continuous self-origination could work from a kind of overall reality that unfolds (and is taken back into) a deep zone that has no time or space. The creator God would be how we see it from a time/space perspective. But perhaps it is continuous creation all the time from everywhere?

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Basically just putting the metaphor of a fountain flowing deep and wide to use within whatever religious framework one is comfortable with. God conceptualized as being in the deepest zone of overall reality and at base of being.

Our discussion here inspired this potential beginning of a potential book. Please critique (if interested). : After many years of philosophizing about spirituality, I seem to have settled on one main focus: depth. While I continue to touch on many other foci, such as wholeness, potentiality...

I think I might have some of those argumentative genes also. My last name of Moneyhon is most likely of Irish origin. The area where I was raised was mostly German and Irish ancestry.

Consistent with the hypothesis of an “observer effect,” a suspension of regular knowledge by trusting in God, would improve the ability to mentally access and use quantum effects. The modern mind would need to suspend certainty in other ways. Perhaps seeing/sensing that physical reality is...

The “active” part of David Bohm’s and Basil Hiley’s “active information” that orchestrates coordinated action between isolated electrons suggests an energy component of the “information.” This quantum behavior would be consistent with phenomena such as remote healing. If, during collective...

“Wave” (spirit) function collapse? Older beliefs taking on increasingly deadened, matter-like characteristics, like quanta acting more like a particle than a wave. In psychology, new therapies work so well that the promoters assume it is based on the theory behind the therapy. As the therapy...