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Category Archives: book writing
The Word “Spiritual” as a vague marketplace of diverse feelings and ideals
Towards a working definition of “Spiritual” or “Spirituality” I’m going to do a little series on this word in the pursuit of an intelligible metaphor for the spiritual within our skeptical, secular context. This is part one. “Spiritual” is one … Continue reading
Heaven and Hell Questions in the light of the Self and the Face of the one on the Throne
A post on CRC Voices about the final judgment, about whether a person goes to hell when they die, or is it Hades and then hell, etc. A discussion started and I shared these thoughts. Part of the puzzle is … Continue reading
Your Third Person Self, Clothed and Naked
http://youtu.be/izfAvwz6DD4 (Sorry, the video won’t play embedded. Click through to youtube to get a sense of it. You probably won’t need to watch the whole thing.) Sexy Me vs. Plain Me This video is a fun experiment in our rebellion … Continue reading
The Cultured, Willful Self
The Most Adaptive Creature on the Planet The scope of human programmability is astounding. People have figured out how to live in tropical jungles and arctic regions. People have developed cultures where a deity requires the ceremonial sacrifice of incredible … Continue reading
Seeing Multiple Selves in Time
We can’t see our selves People can’t see themselves. Our eyes are in our sockets and unless we have a mirror we see outwards, not inwards. Just like with our physical bodies we require a mirror to bounce the light … Continue reading
The Sticky Self and the Reflected Self
Earlier I wrote about identity and the self. If we imagine the self to be a house, then identity is the space and the medium through which we see the house, the walls that can be painted, the front and … Continue reading
The Pre-Self You
Being Born Growing up when and where I did shaped my self and my identity. Most of us feel this way. While we recognize the nature/nurture puzzle most of us admit that both our genetics and our experiences shape us. … Continue reading
On the Identity and the Self
“I am the REAL American Beauty!” Northside Chapel was a lively place to be raised as a boy. The small racial reconciliation church planted by my father in Paterson’s poor first ward was filled with characters with enough interesting stories … Continue reading
This Book is about You
This book is about you. You probably imagine that your life is a story and you are the character this story is about. I doubt that most of you can seriously imagine your life in any other way. You naturally … Continue reading
The Self Book
It’s a book Some of you who know me know that I like to write, a lot. I like writing a lot and I like writing a lot. Many of you have suggested that I write a book. Part of … Continue reading
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