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 …

Obama’s Cites Environmental Challenges As Greatest National Security Threat

Findings of the US Climate Change Science Program While the vast amount of media coverage of Obama’s speech on national security today will focus on Iraq and Afghanistan, I would note what Obama himself says is the greatest single security threat to the US (and the world): This immediate danger is eclipsed only by the long-term threat from climate change, …

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 …

The Scattered Brotherhood

Surrendering To Love YOU HAVE UNDERTAKEN THE GREAT ADVENTURE of becoming sons of God, and you have to go through a sort of untangling to reach this place of communion and awareness. Be assured that your sole duty is to go within and dissolve by releasing the outer entanglements, to surrender appetites and forebodings. The question of appetites is different …

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 …

Holy Smokes! Billary Wins Kentucky

Proving the inventiveness of one her key demographics, white Appalachian males, Billary supporter and Darwin Award candidate, Roary M. Plosion, shows his contribution to Billary’s impending victory speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The Scattered Brotherhood

A New Day Dawning When the tragedy of the world presses hard, remember that the power of God is in you. Let it use you— let it; don’t strive. Let the awareness of the presence of God within be like a flame to you, lighting you, warming you, cheering you this day and every day. It can be for you …