# Spirituality URL: /spirituality --- Spirituality in all its Name and Form. - [What is a Geilt?](/spirituality/what-is-a-geilt.txt) (2011-10-26) - Being in SEO, I often search for my own name to see how its ranking, making sure I dominate the first page. I also go by a pseudoname “geilt”, that I picked up during my adventures into spirituality, and research into Celtic mythology and spirituality then later used in MMO‘s and Online Gaming. It is an old Gaelic term that means “one who has gone mad from terror”. Searching for it I found this lovely article by Erynn Rowan Laurie on her blog about Geiltadecht. She describes a geilt as: It is translated as “one who goes mad from terror, a… - [The Egotistical Problem of Past Life Regression](/spirituality/the-egotistical-problem-of-past-life-regression.txt) (2011-08-17) - Past Life Regression is used by many spiritual practitioners to seek wisdom from “those” whom they believe “they” once where. “Those who they once were” can mean the chain of events and information that has led them to their current wisdom, as well as a coarse interpretation as the physical entities that their “soul” inhabited. Aside from the metaphysical ramifications, and belief system altering experience that this can be, there is a unspoken effect of both believing and communicating with ones past life, that is the problem of Egotism. The self importance, pride, and majesty that comes from believing one was even… - [On the Multiplicity of Reality and Unity of the Godhead](/spirituality/on-the-multiplicity-of-reality-and-unity-of-the-godhead.txt) (2011-08-15) - Concepts of the Oneness of the Godhead are universal and at the root of every mystical tradition, God as a verb, and as a noun, no-thing, and all. One cannot escape from what it is within, when within that which is everything. Oneness being nothingness…and why? Because all the effort and all the importance we give to something so fundamental as reality and God is in the end fruitless, for it cannot be any greater than it already is being supreme, requiring nothing, requiring of us nothing. In its most coarse form, God is purely entertainment of the mind. In… - [Who We Are](/spirituality/who-we-are.txt) (2011-06-22) - Powerful quote given when discussing Buddhism with my Thesis Advisor and teacher Dr. Nathan Katz If we knew who we were, we wouldn’t be who we think we are. -Dr. Nathan Katz: http://www.indojudaic.com - [On Names](/blog/thoughts/on-names.txt) (2010-08-16) - There is a lot to be said about a name, especially in SEM, SEO and most prominently in SM (Social Media). Why? Because it’s people who know how to work the machine, not the machines running themselves. On the internet, you are your name. Without a name, your just another random person on the street, no one cares, no one knows you. You drive by them every day on the highway. Nameless people. Names are either given to us, or chosen; and it is our duty, should we so choose, to make this name known. Your name is the one… - [Caring for the Machine](/technology/caring-for-the-machine.txt) (2010-08-16) - Even my gaming friends don’t really know…or care…about the machine they are working on. I don’t just mean how cool the machine is; I meant the philosophical and psychological implications of our technology that drives one to learn and care more and more about them. It’s immense, the world is changing fast, media is changing, the internet, just born, is changing day to day. Just look around, how many Social networking sites now have API’s that connect with the most popular webmail clients to find others on their own networks? This has become standard; maybe a year or two ago… - [The Friar and the Muslim](/blog/thoughts/the-friar-and-the-muslim.txt) (2010-06-14) - Watching Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (yes, I know, old movie) I couldn’t help but think about the encounter between his Muslim friend and the Friar. When the Friar realizes the error in his prejudice toward the “barbarian”, he makes amends. He offers a drink to the Muslim, who cannot accept. He exuberantly explains that he will drink and his new barbarian friend can talk. It must have been such an amazing conversation. The wisdom that the Muslim carried around from his knowledge of the Qu’ran, and the revelations the Friar would have at the similarity of their religions (Islam… - [Chaos in Unity – Infinity – Life in Society as a Mental and Social Abberation](/blog/thoughts/chaos-in-unity-infinity-life-in-society-as-a-mental-and-social-abberation.txt) (2010-01-14) - Just imagine a Circle that can’t have an edge because there is nothing outside of it (that’s infinity, i.e. God) then think, what’s that infinity doing there? Then think, if infinity is everything, which by definition it is, then what purpose does infinity serve other than to serve itself. Then think, we are in infinity at some point in “linear time”, and trained (socially) to worship and do deeds in the name of that infinity, serving infinity. Essentially, a part of infinity serving infinity, while infinity serves a part of itself by “granting” very existence. Meaningless in the end, redundant,… - [The Devil – A Concept Based on Human Judgement](/spirituality/religion/the-devil-a-concept-based-on-human-judgement.txt) (2009-11-13) - In most Religions there are antagonist deities or demigods that harass and tempt man to do what he is not naturally supposed to do. The key word here is naturally. Man has created many unnatural concepts that reflect as unnatural behavior. Man has even gone so far as to personify this concept and use it as a method of explaining away the “evils” of the world. This Devil, Fallen Angel, Lucifer, etc. is quoted by many fundamentalists as the source of all human misery. But what are they really saying when they state this? Isn’t to blame the Devil for… - [Worship – Imposing Vanity on the Supreme Being](/spirituality/religion/worship-imposing-vanity-on-the-supreme-being.txt) (2009-09-26) - Why does man feel such a need to worship? When I say worship I speak mainly of religious worship even though man does indeed worship many things. The worship I am speaking of however is the formal kind of traditional religious worship. It can be said that man worships money, power or God, however none are worshipped as formally as God. Elaborate rituals, social taboos and powerful symbols shroud this figure in mystery as animal, incense and devotion is offered on the altar. Why do we as human beings have this driving desire to offer all of ourselves and personal… - [“Good” as a Principle](/spirituality/religion/good-as-a-principle.txt) (2009-09-21) - A beautiful quote from a book I picked up out of my library and started reading. I found this book in San Diego at an antique book shop near the convention center while attending the American Academy of Religion. “We call good a principle, when it is only our way of estimating the phenomena of life. Think you there is any good where there is no sense to feel? So good and evil, being only our estimate, of that which we sense – it is our product and must belong to us-and we are the principle after all.” – F.B Dowd, The Temple of the Rosy Cross –… - [Wealth, God and Happiness](/blog/thoughts/wealth-god-and-happiness.txt) (2009-06-17) - The following was a reply to a discussion about whether Christians Should be Wealthy or not on myLot Discussions: What do you need wealth for but to maintain your level of living? What are you going to save for? What are you going to spend on? What is the point of hoarding wealth instead of spreading it to others or into the economy (through purchasing, creating jobs, investing, etc.) Wealth does nothing. It is an insubstantial number in an insubstantial account somewhere…which surprisingly can be used to purchase substantial things. Until it is used it is just potential. Those who are… - [On Death and Memory – Birth and Death](/blog/thoughts/on-death-and-memory-birth-and-death.txt) (2009-06-15) - When a person is born, it can be said that they have no memory whatsoever of anything before birth. Can this not be said then of death? Is there really that much of a difference between birth and death? If both are said to be oblivious states in which conscious does not yet, or ceases to exist, then they are one in the same. There is no difference, before or after, for something that doesn’t exist. Experience of consciousness happens during the living phase, which is the only phase. A state of non-existence is not a phase. This is an… - [Man as God, Man as Nature](/spirituality/religion/man-as-god-man-as-nature.txt) (2009-06-02) - Man as God One of the most common mystical realizations in any religious tradition is the unity between Man and God. One does not, and cannot exist without the other. This is not a relationship of dependence, but of unity. Man cannot be separate from the whole of God, as the whole of God is everything. God cannot separate man from itself because this would imply that there would be something other than God, and a space in which Man could exist that is other than God. This is one of the reasons man tends to anthropomorphize God. Man describes… - [Why do we Fool Ourselves?](/spirituality/why-do-we-fool-ourselves.txt) (2009-05-26) - We fancy ourselves compassionate, loving, sentimental creatures. This you could say is a product of evolution and technology. Compassion and love normally takes backseat when creature comforts aren’t around. There is more of a sense of urgency and survival. I don’t think the compassion and fanciness of the current New Age Movement is organic as much as it is an aberration. It could be a product of our technology advancing too fast, allowing creature comforts and hence spiritual fanciness to flourish. Old traditions took their religion very seriously. Most point out that ecstacy and oneness is not so much the… - [Transactional Relationships](/blog/thoughts/transactional-relationships.txt) (2009-05-21) - There is a certain amount of effort that people put into individuals they meet. This effort is usually for a Return. The threat of that effort being removed creates anxiety and rashness. The loss of that effort creates depression, hate, malice and other negative affects towards the individual. What isn’t normally realized is that this effort was placed willingly, and with complete knowledge that it is a risk. Why do we treat our relationships as business transactions? If you don’t either follow a person’s lead or contribute to a person’s interest, there is no relationship. It makes me wonder if… --- [Back to Index](/llms.txt)