Is it possible that the search of the Self or the World or the Lord is confused at the outset? That its very premise is suspect, inevitably contaminating whatever apparently proceeds or emerges from it? Say that I resolve to search for an Xlkerd. I pledge not to rest until I encounter an Xlkerd. MyContinue reading “Examining the Grounds of our Spiritual Search”
Author Archives: Sean
Quietly Insisting Each Day be Holy
I wrote this a few weeks before Christmas and then forgot about it, but while going back through my notes the other day found it again, and liked it. So it’s out of sync with our shared calendar, but you know. Better late – or early, perhaps – than never. *** It is a clicheContinue reading “Quietly Insisting Each Day be Holy”
Wanting Monasteries
For a long time I wanted a monastery. Then I wanted one with whom to want a monastery with me. Then I wanted one with whom to expand this want to include the various ecstasies associated with the insights one imagined would be gained in the monastery, yet are in this living mainly enacted sensuallyContinue reading “Wanting Monasteries”
Love in a Reflexive Domain
In a reflexive domain, the actors can and do act on both themselves and on the domain. In a reflexive domain, the domain is responsive. So living in a reflexive domain means that living is fundamentally relational. Our selves are a reflexive domain; our relationships are a reflexive domain; our communities are a reflexive domain;Continue reading “Love in a Reflexive Domain”
The Observer and the Observed Redux
We create an image of ourselves. We see ourselves as others see us. Or perhaps as our imagined God sees us. Or as we wish we could be. Or should be. Or would be if we had different parents, lived in a different part of the world, spoke another language, had another partner, lived inContinue reading “The Observer and the Observed Redux”
On Objectification, Observers, Observation and Objects
I have written before that in a sense there are no objects, only processes. You can look at it that way, if you like. Some processes – like the moon or the earth, say – are sufficiently stable that we can treat them as objects. But if we look closely and honestly, they are inContinue reading “On Objectification, Observers, Observation and Objects”