A hallucination is, I can put my hand through a chair because it’s not really there. There is no chair. But an illusion is, something is there but I am not seeing it. I’m seeing something else. I see a chair but it’s actually atoms. Or information. Or Jesus teaching me how to forgive theContinue reading “Distinguishing Between Illusion and Hallucination”
Author Archives: Sean
On Self Love
Self-love is important. We cannot give away what we don’t have (or don’t know that we have). Just as importantly, we cannot accept love from our brothers and sisters if we do not recognize the love as it is offered. Self-love is both how we know we have something to give to everyone, and howContinue reading “On Self Love”
A Story to Shed Light on the Ego
In this post I talked about how projection can work in our lives, especially in terms of relationships. We project onto others what we do not want to look at in our own self, and then judge the other exactly the way we fear WE would be judged. A lawyer was mean to me once,Continue reading “A Story to Shed Light on the Ego”
A Story to Shed Light on Forgiveness
Once when I was a young lawyer another lawyer – a guy maybe twenty years older than me, a skillful attorney I admired a lot – humiliated me publicly. During a meeting before about two hundred other lawyers, he spoke from the podium about how he hated working with “dumb young lawyers” and – pointingContinue reading “A Story to Shed Light on Forgiveness”
Special Relationships as Forms of Avoidance
Special relationships reflect a decision to avoid looking at guilt and hate within by renaming them “love” and projecting them onto a partner. This only exacerbates the underlying problem, which is our refusal to be responsible for the decision to be separate from both Creator and Creation. Separation is only a decision not to knowContinue reading “Special Relationships as Forms of Avoidance”
On Listening to the Holy Spirit
Here is what the Holy Spirit tells you when you listen: happiness is given; joy is given. You don’t have to do anything. People hear this and panic. I have to go to work! I have to have sex! I have to have coffee! I have to floss! And vote! And so forth! I appreciateContinue reading “On Listening to the Holy Spirit”