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Recently a friend and I discussed the experience of pain. She was recovering from surgery and was trying to cope with very strong...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Feb 2
I Am This
Lately I have been listening to an audio program by the British spiritual teacher Jeff Foster. His teachings speak to where I currently...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Jan 29
Dance Steps
As I have been working on practicing the Steps to Awakening that I wrote about in my past post, what has emerged is more of a dance than...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Jan 27
Steps to Awakening: 12 Suggestions for Spiritual Growth
As I wrote about it my first blog post, I have been experiementing with using a modified version of AA's 12 steps as a practice for...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Jan 9
Entheogens
An entheogen is a chemical substance, typically of plant origin, that is ingested to produce a nonordinary state of consciousness for...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Dec 18, 2021
Trust, Surrender, and Equanimity (17 December 2021)
Recently a friend was driving me to an appointment and we were talking about our experiences with two aspects of the 12 steps. The first...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Dec 14, 2021
Christmas and the Christ Within (10 December 2021)
Yesterday as I was driving down the street near my home in the first snow of the season, I turned my car’s CD player on and it started...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Dec 5, 2021
Your Ego Is Not Your Amigo (4 December 2021)
When I ended my last post, I thought, “Okay, now what? How do I flesh out what this actual practice might look like in day-to-day life?...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Dec 3, 2021
My Spiritual Autobiography: from Mormonism to Integral Spirituality
I wrote the first two of these "spiritual autobiographies" in 2004 and 2005, as part of a religous transistion group I participated in at...
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reflectionsjournal1
- Dec 2, 2021
Origins of this Blog (November 27, 2021)
Recently a good friend shared some of their experiences as a relatively new member of AA. I was struck by two things as I listened to...
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Reflections: A Personal Journal