ThePowerofOne

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  • The Role of Prophets

    I listened to a podcast recently about what happens to culture who do not listen to intuitives, seers, visionaries, and prophets. There is chaos, decay, degradation. In the West, we have marginalized those who see visions, hear voices, and dream dreams. We relegate them to psych wards or to fringe spiritual groups. For such would-be…

  • Can We Speak About God?

    I’ve become convinced that theology only arises when people have lost touch with the Great Mystery. I just read in the summary section of Chapter One in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “We really can name God, starting from the manifold perfections of his creatures, which are likenesses of the infinitely perfect God, even…

  • A Finger Pointing at the Moon: Breaking Open Christian Belief

    I’ve said in previous posts that Catholicism is a color in my palette as a life artist. Lately, I am seeing that the tradition constitutes quite a lot of the colors. While I’m inspired by Zen Buddhism and yoga and shamanic practice, the Catholic Church continuously compels me in both its beauty and its hideousness,…

  • Roses for Your Troubles

    I recently finished the audiobook version of The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. There is only one other book as pivotal as this one in my life and that was Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. As a result of reading this book, I’ve started praying the rosary…

  • Earth Mother, Death Mother: A Poem for Our Times

    Bone breaks, blood spills.The dark cry of the world goes up, a column of smoke.Bullets. Women weep with their dead in their arms.The oceans also hold dead children,coral reefs like whitewashed tombstonesand whales no longer singing.The land perishes beneath our feet,harvests soon to vanish.Machines grind away, never stopping. There is no night here. The lights…

  • A Spirituality Experiment

    For the last five years (well, if you count my last two years of college, seven), I’ve been on a spiritual path. Destination: enlightenment. Or salvation, in Catholic terminology. And I was very confused for most of those years. This year, I have decided to take a different direction. As I read the Gospels, I…

  • The Whole-Hearted Human Being

    I have a special interest in the non-canonical scriptures of the Christian tradition. Perhaps it’s because I chafe at the idea of orthodoxy and “right belief.” Almost always, those who insist there is only one way of seeing things become more violent than those whose view they oppose. We’ve seen this borne out many times…

  • A Reflection on Good and Evil

    I wrote in my post “Tarot and Oracle Cards: Good or Evil?” that good and evil are concepts of the mind. I thought I’d elaborate on this, lest my readers think I’m crazy or evil myself. Nondual Reality is all there is, yes. This Reality includes all, accepts all, and transcends all, including moral concepts…

  • Seek Ye First the Kingdom

    I’m writing this post mostly for me, but I share it because I think it may be helpful to you, dear reader. I admit that today I have had anxiety about my finances. My husband is in graduate school making less than $19,000 a year. I, having been hospitalized in May 2023 for psychosis, have…

  • Tarot and Oracle Cards: Good or Evil?

    I had a friend, a very devout Catholic, tell me once that if I was going to use tarot cards that I mustn’t call them “tarot,” since the name has been co-opted for evil purposes. Now, if I refused to call myself a Catholic because evil things have been done in the name of Catholicism,…