December 31, 2025 Mary Magdalene

Prayer to St. Mary Magdalene

From Christian & Non-Duality

Perspectives 

Prayer for Forgiveness & Love 

St. Mary Magdalene

"Saint Mary Magdalen, woman of many sins, who by conversion became the beloved follower of Jesus, thank you for your witness that Jesus forgives through the miracle of love. You, who already possess eternal happiness in His glorious presence, please intercede for me, so that some day I may share in the same everlasting joy. Amen".

Deeper Dive

Non-Duality and Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene is a significant figure in Christian non-duality, particularly as described by authors like Cynthia Bourgeault. Proponents of this view suggest her life and teachings (especially in non-canonical texts like the Gospel of Mary) exemplify a path to "unitive awareness" or union with the Divine, which is the core of non-dualism

Union with the Divine: Non-duality emphasizes the dissolution of the self and the realization of one's essential oneness with God, moving beyond the perceived separation between subject and object, self and God. The Apostle Paul's statement, "It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me," is a core expression of this idea.

The Gnosis (Direct Knowing): In the Gospel of Mary, she is presented as a favored disciple who received special, direct Gnosis (knowledge) from Jesus, which some interpret as an unmediated, non-dual understanding of the divine. This Gnosis "surpass[es] all dualistic knowledge and understanding".

Love as the Path: Many modern interpretations and channelled messages attributed to Mary Magdalene emphasize choosing love over fear, a practice that keeps one "centered in a world in flux" and aligns with the non-dual realization of universal love

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Inner Authority: The Gospel of Mary portrays her confidently sharing her vision despite skepticism from others, highlighting an inner authority derived from direct spiritual experience rather than external hierarchy. 

40 Rules of Love, Rule #1

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One day, according to legend, Rumi was reading next to a large stack of books. Shams Tabriz, passing by, asked him, What are you doing?"

Rumi scoffingly replied, Something you cannot understand (i.e. knowledge that cannot be understood by the unlearned.) On hearing this, Shams threw the stack of books into a nearby pool of water. 

Rumi rescued the books and to his surprise they were all dry.

Rumi then asked Shams, What is this?

To which Shams replied, 'Mowlana, this is what you cannot understand (i.e. knowledge that cannot be understood by the learned.)

Shams forty observations about the nature of love and God, can be read together (fine but a bit left brain, a bit ʻlearned' as Shams might say)

Or discretely, each a starting-point for reflection (more right brain, letting the mind wander laterally and make connections).

Like life, and love, learning is not a race to the finish, but a voyage to the start.

For Consumption, Contemplative and Inner Birthing 

Rule 1

How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves; we don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. 

If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. 

If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.

December 30, 2025

 OUR FATHER AS A QUANTUM PRAYER

Our Father, you radiate divine love within my heart. May your sacred love bless me and all humanity, embracing every aspect of your magnificent creation. I am deeply grateful for the privilege of co-creating with you, humbly contributing to the manifestation of your heavenly kingdom here on earth. As I embark on this sacred journey, I am filled with purpose, spreading love, peace, and unity wherever I go. I thank you for the infinite, divine energy that abundantly meets all my needs, nurturing my body, mind, and spirit. I am filled with gratitude for the gift of self-forgiveness, releasing myself from the burdens of mistakes and offenses, and for the ability to forgive others, freeing us all from the shackles of resentment. I am thankful for the radiant health that permeates every cell of my being, vibrating with joy and protecting me from harm. I am grateful for the transformative experiences that elevate my consciousness, raising my vibrations of love and guiding me through the journey of ascension, shielding me from the illusions of duality.
Love and Light,

December 29th, 2025

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Christ is more than Jesus. Christ is the communion of divine personal love expressed in every created form of reality.

—Ilia Delio

The Universal Prayer

Eternal Reality, You are everywhere. You are infinite unity, truth, and love;

You permeate our souls,

Every corner of the universe, and beyond.

To some of us, You are father, friend, or partner.

To others, Higher Power, Higher Self, or Inner Self.

To many of us, You are all these and more.

You are within us and we within You.

We know You forgive our trespasses

If we forgive ourselves and others.

We know You protect us from destructive temptation If we continue to seek Your help and guidance.

We know You provide us food and shelter today

If we but place our trust in You and try to do our best

Give us this day knowledge of Your will for us and the power to carry it out. For Yours, is infinite power and love,

Forever.

December 28, 2025

The Lord’s Prayer…translated from Aramaic directly into English.

Since I first encountered a translation  of the Lord's Prayer it opened the door to my heart from the size of a grain of sand, to the width breath and depth of all the is. 

(interpreting Aromatic to English is subjective at best this is one of many translations)

O cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration,

Soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where your Presence can abide.

Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission.

Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire.

Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each being needs to grow and flourish.

Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us, as we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes.

Do not let us be seduced by that which would divert us from our true purpose, but illuminate the opportunities of the present moment.

For you are the ground and the fruitful vision, the birth, power, and fulfillment, as all is gathered and made whole once again.

And So It Is!

December 27th, 2025

 Mysterium Coniunctionis

I am not a man, neither am I a god, a goblin, a Brahmin, a warrior, a merchant, a shudra, nor disciple of a Brahmin, nor householder, nor hermit of the forest, nor yet mendicant pilgrim: Awakener to Myself is my name"(Jung, Vol.14, p.90)

Carl Jung's quote, “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls,” highlights humanity's deep-seated fear of introspection, revealing how we distract ourselves with irrational behaviors (addiction, workaholism, denial) to escape uncomfortable truths, repressed emotions, and the challenging journey of self-awareness required for true psychological growth and wholeness, 

Carl Jung: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted. Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living. We only gain merit and psychological development by accepting ourselves as we are and by being serious enough to live the lives we are entrusted with. Our sins and errors and mistakes are necessary to us, otherwise we are deprived of the most precious incentives to development.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. There’s no coming to consciousness without pain. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. You open the gates of the soul to let the dark flood of chaos flow into your order and meaning. If you marry the ordered to the chaos you produce the divine child, the supreme meaning beyond meaning and meaninglessness. Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found and given by experience.

The only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization — absolute and unconditional — of its own particular law. To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being, he has failed to realize his own life’s meaning. Everybody will cry. “You are no different from anybody else,” they will chorus or, “there’s no such thing.” But he knows better: it is the law. He has resolved to obey the law that commands him from within. “His own law!”

Man cannot stand a meaningless life. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. It is only the things we don’t understand that have any meaning. Man woke up in a world he did not understand, and that is why he tries to interpret it. About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

The sad truth is that man’s real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites — day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge. To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call “I” behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.

The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance. Thus we demand that the world grant us recognition for qualities which we regard as personal possessions: our talent or our beauty. The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy. If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change.

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away—an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

If you can live in fantasy, then you don’t need religion, since with fantasy you can understand that after death, man is reincorporated in the Universe. Once again I will say that it is not important to know whether there is something beyond this life. What counts is having done the right sort of work; if that is right, then everything else will be all right. The Universe, or Nature, is for me what God is for others. It is wrong to think that Nature is the enemy of man, something to be conquered. Rather, we should look upon Nature as a mother, and should peaceably surrender ourselves to it. If we take that attitude, we will simply feel that we are returning to the Universe as all other things do, all animals and plants. We are all just infinitesimal parts of the Whole. It is absurd to rebel; we must deliver ourselves up to the great current

December 26th, 2025

A Detour into Norse Mythology 

(Synchronicity Happenstance & Intuition) 

Norse Mythology 

Yggdrasıl World Tree

With her branches in the heavens and her Roots in the Underworld, the ash tree Yggdrasıl holds all opposites in hee embrace. Both Sacred and Mortal, the tree is in need of the same compassion and protection she offers. A spider Monkey is Constantly Scurrying Up her trunk bringing News, and Roosters Rest in her upper canopy like sentries. When Melia was born from a drop of her sap, those Roosters. Crowed in joy and fright at the flowers and flames. With limbs like Yggdrasil's, who could let go of these

 Worlds 

Upon

Worlds.

Carl Jung on Yggdrasil

For Carl Jung, Yggdrasil isn't just a Norse myth but a profound, symbolic map of the soul's deepest journey toward becoming a complete, individuated Self, a core goal of his analytical psychology. 

Deeper Dive into Yggdrasil

The image above is a diagram of Yggdrasil, the immense ash tree central to Norse cosmology that connects the Nine Worlds. 

Yggdrasil acts as the spine of the universe, with its vast branches and three enormous roots holding everything together. 

The roots extend into Niflheim (realm of ice and cold), Jotunheim (land of the giants), and Asgard (world of the gods). 

Various creatures interact with the tree, including the dragon Nidhogg gnawing at the roots and an eagle at the crown. 

The well-being of the cosmos depends on the tree; its trembling signals the arrival of Ragnarök, the destruction of the universe. 

 goo-goo g'joob

December 25th, 2025

 On this Christmas I am so Gratefully filled with Blessing ~ Grace and the Transformational Power of Love. 

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You 

While I'm Not Religious, I would be less than I am if I couldn't Recognize the Truths, from the Heart of Any Religion or Practice. 

Bill Wilson 

Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, viewed grace as God's freely given help, transforming suffering into spiritual progress and enabling emotional sobriety through humility, acceptance, and selfless service (Twelfth Step), emphasizing that grace isn't earned but received by surrendering demands and focusing on loving and helping others, a journey of continuous growth and change, not perfection. 

Carl Jung 

Carl Jung viewed grace not just as external divine favor, but as an internal, transformative experience arising from confronting one's shadow, sin, and unconscious, leading to individuation, wholeness, and a deeper connection with the divine within; he saw neurosis or "falling" as a necessary catalyst for this grace, prompting humility and spiritual growth, while acknowledging that ultimate spiritual realities, like faith, are gifts beyond pure reason or effort, often arriving miraculously. 

Dalai Lama 

The Dalai Lama speaks of grace not as divine favor, but as finding peace and beauty in every moment—good or bad—through compassion, kindness, and gratitude, seeing interconnectedness, and letting go of negativity to realize the vast, peaceful space within, making our lives meaningful and bringing happiness to others. He emphasizes extending grace to others through understanding and forgiveness, seeing them as fellow humans wanting happiness, and finding the "grace" of a precious human life. 

Biblical Grace 

Biblically, grace is

unmerited favor, love, and kindness extended freely to undeserving people, offering salvation, forgiveness, and empowerment to live righteously through Jesus Christ, a free gift not earned by works but received by faith. It's God's benevolent impulse to bless sinners, providing what they don't deserve (salvation) and withholding what they do deserve (punishment).

And Sufi

At Rahman [The Compassionate] is like the ocean of infinite kindness and beauty. Ar-Rahman is the tide, overflowing in its mercy, all-embracing in its nature. It is the gate through which all the Divine Names flow.”

– from Divine Names: The 99 Healing Names of the One Love.   by Rosina-Fawzia al Rawi

We all need to be reminded of our connection with Allah’s Compassion from time to time. Compassion is the Divine container in which we live, the cosmic soup in which we swim.

The earth might not always feel like a compassionate place, but as a whole, the earth and all of its inhabitants exist within a Divine Ocean which is too big for us to see. We are completely contained and embraced in its love.

December 24th, 2025

Richard Rohr On Grace

It's In Your Heart ~ Ever Since to Evermore 

Glad Tidings ~ Indeed

Richard Rohr sees grace as God's very essence—an inherent, unearned, all-encompassing goodness that fills the universe, not something God gives out as a reward; it's the "Goodness Glue," a divine energy flowing through everything, especially in depths, wounds, and death, inviting us to move from a merit-based life to a gift-based one where we receive God's free, persistent presence, realizing all is gift and learning to enjoy it. 

Key Concepts of Rohr's View on Grace

• Who God Is: Grace isn't a transaction; it's God's nature, always present, sustaining all creation.
• The Universal Field: God's goodness fills "the gaps," holding darkness and light together, a free energy transforming death into life.
• Beyond Meritocracy: Grace challenges our "earn and deserve" mindset (capitalism/meritocracy) by showing everything is a gift, moving us to stop counting and weighing.
• Found in the Low Places: Like water, grace pools in the lowest spots, in wounds, brokenness, and the "bottom" of things, not just the pious or perfect.
• The Gift Economy: Jesus introduced a "gift economy" where all are guests, receiving freely without owing anything back, fostering gratitude and hospitality.
• The "Deadly Sin": The only real sin is living on the surface, missing God's deep presence and love by focusing on self-worthiness.
• An Unearned Bridge: Grace is an uncreated, unearned bridge that carries us from death to life, beyond our efforts, achieved through radical openness and surrender. 

How to Experience It

• Openness: Be open to God's persistent presence through your senses, heart, and mind.
• Letting Go: Stop striving for worthiness; realize you already have it.
• Gratitude: Recognize everything as a gift, fostering thankfulness.
• Embrace the "Now": Receive God's presence now, not just at the end of life, moving from moralistic religion to mystical experience. 

 

December 23rd, 2025

How one mystic’s words continue to inspire self-examination and deeper spiritual reflection

Meister Eckhart 

Meister Eckhart’s teaching on the soul’s awakening centers on radical detachment (*gelassenheit), moving beyond concepts and ego to find the “spark” or “ground” of the soul, which is one with God, allowing for a direct, naked experience of the divine; it’s a process of “subtraction,” not addition, where the soul realizes its inherent divinity and unity with the Godhead, becoming “Christ” within. This awakening involves letting go of all attachments—even spiritual ones—to find the unconditioned “God beyond God” and experience true freedom and divine union.

Key Concepts:

The Spark of the Soul: A divine, luminous core within us, connecting us directly to the primal source of God, seeking naked communion.

Radical Detachment (Gelassenheit): A conscious letting go of desires, fears, and even ideas about God, revealing the soul’s true freedom and allowing God to act.

Subtraction, Not Addition: The soul grows closer to God not by acquiring more, but by shedding layers of self, concepts, and attachments.

Oneness with God: The ultimate goal is the realization that the soul’s ground is identical with the Godhead, a unity far deeper than physical connection.

Spiritual Poverty: Desiring nothing, knowing nothing, and possessing nothing, even spiritually, to be truly open to God’s presence.

Birth of the Word: Awakening is like the birth of Christ within the soul, a transformative integration of the divine into our being.

The Process:

Letting Go: Actively detach from all worldly and spiritual possessions, images, and concepts.

Going Out of Yourself: Move beyond your limited self to allow God to be God in you.

Encountering the Naked God: Discovering God beyond all names and forms, in His pure, unconditioned essence.

Experiencing Unity: Realizing the soul’s innate, unbreakable connection and oneness with the divine source.

In essence, Eckhart teaches that awakening is not about becoming like God, but about realizing you are God at your deepest level, through a radical emptying and return to your divine origin.

13th-Century Truth Bombs from Meister Eckhart, "That Speak to the Soul" 

 "A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know
many things, but we don't know ourselves!

Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an Ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there."

"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them.

This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage.

"If the only prayer you said
in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."

What I love about this is the sharpness in this simplicity.

It's a slap in the face of all the ornate rituals, the performative spirituality Eckhart must've seen paraded around medieval cathe- drals. It's still very much alive and well today.

The gratitude he's talking about here isn't the gratitude you rehearse before your Thanksgiving grace or the hollow "positive vibes" stitched into throw pillows.

The gratitude he's talking about here isn't the gratitude you re- hearse before your Thanksgiving grace or the hollow "positive vibes" stitched into throw pillows. This is elemental.

It's saying "Thank you" not because life is good but because it is.