Orde Wingate, son of Colonel George Wingate, was a brilliant and unorthodox military leader during WWII.  Orde was a somewhat independent and willful person, but he remained faithful to the fine traditions of family. One day a friend asked him, "Orde, when you say one man is good and another is bad, what exactly do you mean?"  Orde replied, "Well I use these words in the Biblical sense.  When I say one man is good, I mean he lives to fulfill the purposes of...

The Celts followed a Tripartite Cosmology, which basically means we have a "here", "there", and a place between the two. To give you a simple and easy to follow example, imagine two rooms separated by a short passage. When moving between the rooms, you are either in one room (here), the other room (there), or between the two rooms in the passage. This passage is then what we call a liminal point between the two, and between or betwixt place. In many regards, when we...

The Flies in Bible versus Quran (2)

The Bible says that The LORD God hiss for the fly and Dead flies give perfume a stinking odor. The Quran says that Man is as feeble as a fly and he will never ever be able to create a fly

(1) The LORD God hiss for the fly

Isaiah 7:18

King James Version

And it shall come to pass in that day that the LORD (Jehovah) shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and...

The problem of finding the oneness in diversity was a primary concern of Plato. Basically stated, the problem of the one and the many begins from the assumption that there is a unifying factor that operates in the background of things, that unity and oneness are real, and that there is a reliable consistency at the center of things. Plato was seeking a philosophical unity or an underlying principle of unity and identity. Paul was identify that unifying factor when he wrote of the body...

Let me tell you a secret. The real reason we have a Guru is for him to scold us, to tell us off, to point out our weaknesses, to tell us ugly things, to tell us things we don't like to hear, to push us to do things we do not want to do, to make us achieve something we did not think we could and to give us something inside that he can perhaps see through experience, divination, dreams and revelations, which we did not know we could do. A real Guru is not someone who praises us, gives us...

A few days ago, we commemorated  Palm Sunday.

Join me as we join the rest of Jerusalem witness that day NOW.

All four Gospels mention this event, which, at first glance, seems to me the one departure from Jesus' aversion to acclaim.

Crowds spread out their clothes and tree branches, palm fronds, across the road to show their adoration: "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!" they exclaim at the top of their...

Pornography is a destructive problem. Even among Christians, porn is a real issue. Coupled with the addictive nature of a pornography habit, the shame and secret guilt of Christian porn users drives many men and women to despair. But what can be done to break these addictive and destructive behaviours?

If you are addicted to sexual images in magazines, or on the Internet, there is help available. Several courses exist that are designed specifically to help lead you to...

The great Atisha who was such an enlightened Being, had one monk in Nalanda that hated him. He was an older monk that only saw bad points in Atisha. When Atisha gave teachings he would never attend. He would influence others and say, "Don't go to the teachings." He only saw Atisha as false and criticized him over and over and over. He tried to make Atisha's life difficult in the monastery. If it were me, I would have dropped an H-bomb on that monk immediately but because...

A shift of awareness will begin in December of the year 2012 that will start a chain of events which will bring about a shift in consciousness that humans on Earth have not seen for thousands of years. We have been misled to believe that our society on Earth is only six or seven-thousand years old when we are in fact, hundreds of thousands of years old. At one time in ancient antiquity, we humans were so spiritually elevated, that we were in spirit form and not physical animals. We were...

An ancient tradition says that when God dictated the Torah to Moses, letter by letter, historic facts, past, present and future were encoded in the Hebrew Scriptures by an encryption system which can be described and unlocked.

In 1994 the old tradition received a sound scientific basis when three Israeli mathematicians, (Professor Elyahu Rips, from the Hebrew University, Doron Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg), used statistical methods and computers to research the Book of Genesis,...