The White Parasol

Let not prejudice blind us to truth and universal law. Might we come back and be that which we have hated?  So that then we will understand (literally stand under) that hate and that prejudice. Can we let it all go? Give it up? Can we bid it farewell and give it to the light of [...]

A bit of my journey. It was a long journey, within the context of Christianity, that I began thinking about “what about everyone else in the world?”.  Indeed, what if the apparent exclusivity of “Christianity” was actually contrary to its own teachings? I did become a baptised Catholic, as an adult and from no particular [...]

Strange Yorkshire saying is this one.  I have thought about it, or pondered it, a great deal.  Seems to me that it is like this: Well, you know what thought did don’t you? No. Followed a mud-cart and thought it was a wedding! If we see “thought” and “do” representing the ego, psyche or shadow [...]

That soldiers and military have the protection of the Archangel – whichever side they are on – is profound in their own, single journeys; if I may learn not to judge the whys and wherefores of war, not to judge the individual combatants, that, in itself, may give peace to the world.

Sounds a bit odd for a bit of spiritual development doesn’t it? Violence as a word means: “physical force used to inflict injury or damage,” from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. violence, from L. violentia “vehemence, impetuosity,” from violentus “vehement, forcible,” probably related to violare. Weakened sense of “improper treatment” is attested from 1596. (© 2001 Douglas [...]

I was having a chat with someone the other night on gmail pop-up and she mentioned something being about a figment of our imagination. As in, do we exist at all or are we just a figment of our own imaginations? Then I wrote that perhaps that is what the fig-leaf means in the Garden [...]

What is the truth about truth? We spend so much time deluding ourselves and others that it is no wonder that we haven’t a clue what ‘truth’ is. We have our own truths. We have our family sanctioned ‘truths’, our social ’truths’, our group ‘truths’. But how do we know what ‘truth’ is?