Today’s social norm is that there is no norm. The current mood is that everyone must be tolerant of everyone else, regardless of how far from former norms they might be. If it’s not your normal it’s their normal and they shouldn’t be criticized for it, or looked down on. Their standard is simply different…
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We’ve all been indoctrinated with the idea of biological evolution of the various forms of life. But regardless of how our current biological form may have developed, the fact is that the body is actually only a vehicle that is used for the activities of its occupant. To speak about the evolution of the body…
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Recently when I told someone about my upcoming book “Am I Spiritual Yet?” Hearing the title they replied “I think we are spiritual all the time.” That gave me pause for thought. Yes, of course, we are spiritual beings, so in one sense we are always spiritual. But the title of the book is meant…
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The Spiritual Science is not a religion, and does not promote the idea of religious belief or dogma. Instead the Spiritual Science aims to convey the concept of the Absolute Truth. Science in general aims to discover or present a number of laws or principles (truths) that apply everywhere, and the Spiritual Science likewise aims…
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Ray Kuzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, thinks that life is found in the body alone. He plans to have his body frozen when he dies and have it resuscitated when the cure for his disease is found. Boy, will he be surprised and frustrated when death arrives and he finds that nobody will listen to…
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The subject of spirituality is, interestingly, one in which most people consider themselves most expert without having any formal training or education. Thus it is one of the most subjectively defined concepts of human thought. Many people, regardless of formal religious affiliation, have grasped ideas of spirituality from a variety of sources and cobbled them…
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There is a great deal of conflict and confusion today surrounding sex and sexual roles. We are no longer just men and women. New York City, for example, officially recognizes an amazing 31 varieties of sexual orientation/identification. (I can’t even imagine what they are – and don’t really think I want to know!) There is…
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The Spiritual Science informs us that there is a God who is the source of everything and the cause of all causes. This world that we live in was indeed created by God through the use of His various energies. We, living spiritual beings, find ourselves in this world of matter and because humans have…
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Worldviews are powerful. In fact, according to one Russian General – Konstantin Petrov – they are THE most powerful weapon there is. This is so because worldviews create limits of thought. Despite the meme of “thinking outside the box,” meaning to approach a topic from a different angle, such a thing is only possible within…
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In the Introduction to the Spiritual Science and in earlier posts I’ve referred to the living being as the jiva, or the spiritual energy, and have given some explanation of what I mean by that. In this post I want to explain the jiva in detail. When we say jiva we refer to the soul.…
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