I wonder if you, like me, recognize the crucial importance of wisdom at this point in your life and in our life together on earth. Not having been alive for either of the world’s two great wars, I get a small sense of what it might have been like in the years just before these world wars as I watch things spiralling out of control in Israel’s current war with Hamas.
Read MoreI wonder if you remember the story of the first astronauts who went into space to see the stars but were most deeply impacted by seeing the earth. It was, however, what they didn’t see that was even more surprising to them. No matter how hard they looked, they were unable to see national, ethnic, racial, socio-economic, or religious boundaries.…
Read MoreWhen I reflect on the ease with which folly comes to all of us, and how alien wisdom seems to be to our ways of collective living, I think of how natural wisdom is to the non-human elements of creation. In 2017 I was given the opportunity to spend three weeks on an expedition ship exploring the coastal regions of Antarctica…
Read MoreYou may not feel that we are on the brink of Doomsday, but according to the keepers of the Doomsday Clock (members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Science and Security Board), recent events have brought us terrifyingly closer to global annihilation…
Read MoreI am often amazed by how alien the understanding of wisdom as the fruit of enlightenment is to Christians in the West. And it isn’t just the concept of enlightenment that seems foreign. Translating enlightenment into terms such as “an awakened heart” or “transformed consciousness” does little to change the confused looks.…
Read MoreRecently someone contacted me asking if I was the David Benner who was a spiritual teacher. I told her that people sometimes describe me that way but I wondered why she asked. She responded by asking what beliefs I taught. I told her that I have never taught beliefs because my calling is to help people walk the transformational path associated with the awakening of the heart and transformation of consciousness.
Read MoreSocrates famously declared that the unexamined life was not worth living. Asked to sum up the wisdom of Ancient Greece, he replied, “Know yourself.” This affirmation of the importance of knowing oneself was unchallenged by the church Fathers and Mothers, although from the earliest days of church history, knowing of self and God began to be linked.
Read MoreI wonder if you, like me, recognize the crucial importance of wisdom at this point in your life and our life together on earth.
Recently, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries signed what they called “A Warning to Humanity” that was published in the Oxford University Press journal, Bioscience.
Read MoreThere is no question that the enforced isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a nightmare for many people. Think of the abused women and children who have been trapped in their homes with their abusers and have no possibility of escape. Or of those separated from loved ones who are in hospitals and other care facilities that are closed to all visitors.
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