Sublime

In a blessed atmosphere of salvation and redemption, individuals who reach these states of rebirth have a profound sense of heightened vitality, awakening, and the disappearance of physical and emotional symptoms. These are accompanied by feelings of deep forgiveness and brotherly and sisterly feelings toward all humanity. Grof found that people wh

By now, I had become thoroughly convinced that the constant act of letting go of one’s self-centered thoughts and emotions was all that was needed for profound personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

There are at least two radical transitions to highlight here that move like undercurrents in Edwards’s story, eventually floating us into a secular age and a malaise in our own pastoral identity.

Our ability to use the Divine Matrix intentionally and creatively suddenly empowers us to alter everything about the way we see our role in the universe. At the very least, it suggests that there’s much more to life than chance happenings and occasional synchronicities that we deal with the best we can.

When we accept the task of transformation as the purpose of life, we find joy and meaning in acknowledging and releasing distorted energy and consciousness back into their original divine essence. "To the extent that life is led in such a way, to that degree consciousness—as a whole, as it permeates all—is less split off into its particles and

We do not understand that the changes we are experiencing are opening us to more free and complete love. Instead, our most common reaction is self-doubt. Because we assume we should be in charge of our spiritual lives, our first reaction is usually, “What am I doing wrong?” This self-doubt, combined with loss and confusion, explains why the passive

When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, movements like Theosophy offered a kind of third way, a path toward understanding the world between science and religion. Theosophy was in conversation with both realms, using tools like magical practi