The Scattered Brotherhood

Finding the Invisible WE HAVE TALKED about the startle of everyday life, how it is not the reality, but the dream life that you see. For when you are plunged into the sea of sensuous existence, your true life leaves you like smoke.  It evaporates into the stuff of dreams;  it is hard to hold yourself to yourself. Your past …

The Scattered Brotherhood

Tending Your Garden IT IS DIFFICULT to fully understand what actually happens when you place a new thought, a sun-thought, in the galaxy of thoughts which makes up your identity; especially powerful ones as you might have been given. You do not take, as it were, a new concept in your hands, place it in the midst of the familiar …

Urantian Sojourn Magazine

Pursuing The Right: Inside this Week’s Urantian Sojourn Magazine Oooh you’re so jaded! Not the neocon “right,” you silly jelly beans, but the real “Right,” as in the Right Stuff.~ This week’s headliners tell the story of real love between the Obamas, the kind of love that we all search for; real love, given freely, without conditions. The Love that …

Out Of Time

Actor, director, Sydney Pollack has run out of time on earth at 73. You can be sure one or more of his films touched your life in a special way. For me, it was Out Of Africa. Onward and inward, Syd.

THE SCATTERED BROTHERHOOD

Becoming the Trusting Child IN OUR SEARCH FOR THE WAY, some attitudes are more helpful than others. When you were a small child and were gently pushed ahead by your mother, you had a knowledge that you were being safely guided through the unknown. That was a spacious open faith; an intuitive trust in a being you loved. Try to …

PHOTONS AT THE NURSERY

I can’t stay away from plant nurseries this time of year. Greenhouses full of brand-spankin’ new plants does something to me that’s hard to describe. We are fortunate to have a couple of really fine greenhouse nurseries nearby, and as spring really settles in, I figured one good way to purify my psyche of the MSM’s complete clusterphuque of the …