Like everything else in life, the culture of early native Americans had both its positives and negatives. On the one hand, many native American tribes were extremely cruel to their captives – often torturing them to death, and during tough winters they themselves could starve to death. On the other…
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Most people know that Rumi was a Sufi and that the whirling dervishes are Sufis, but that about sums up their Sufi expertise. So, I’m going to provide you with a few other fundamentals, as I understand them. It is mystical: Sufism is not a separate sect of Islam, but an…
If today’s Christian could travel back in time to the first and second centuries, she would no doubt be surprised that the simpler, purer, and homogenous Christianity so often portrayed in Christian children’s books never was. I discuss this further in my Spirituality Counseling Sessions, but let me explain here…
Rainer Maria Rilke’s God-infused Poetry speaks of our yearning for completeness Today’s entry is about Rainer Rilke’s poetry, which is spiritual, often close to mystical, and whose poems, translated and collated in Rilke’s Book of Hours, Love Poems to God by Anita Barrows sprang from what he described as “inner dictations”. Within…