Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Liminal Space – The Art of Transition
“The very vulnerability and openness of liminal space allows room for something genuinely new to happen.” Richard Rohr Good Morning on this beautiful… um… what day is it today..? No idea, but it doesn’t matter. We are here and now. Over the course of the last week or so I have come across many conversations…
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The Continuum of Evolution
“If you pray to God for peace does God give you peace or give you opportunities to be peaceful?” One of the hard problems of theology and religion is the presupposition that God is all loving and all-caring and His Will for us is perfect peace and love; and yet we live in a world…
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Death and Resurrection
Greetings from quarantine. I hope everyone is using this time to fully embrace all of the personal elements of your life which go un-nurtured due to busy schedules and distractions. I wanted to take some time today to think about the main theme of Easter; Death and Resurrection. I understand that the story of Jesus…
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Self Authoring VS Socially Defined
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Will Durant Greetings. We are nearly a month into what may become the most severe and damaging crises the world has faced in the last 20 years. While we are being tested via the social impacts of COVID-19, there arises…
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Cultivating a Stable Mind
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” —Wayne W. Dyer Greetings and Blessings to all of my readers! Today, I want to speak on a topic I think should be at the heart of any meaningful practice; the cultivation of…
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Gratification and Gratitude
I have been spending some time recently playing with the idea of polarities, continuum’s, and trying to see the “middle ground” in my head, trying to get a grasp on developing a meaningful practice when establishing coherence in my field of being. This isn’t a trivial thing, really, because it encompasses so many different dimensions…
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Our Field of Being – Conscious Participation
“In other words, you decide to act as if existence might be justified by its goodness—if only you behaved properly. And it is that decision, that declaration of existential faith, that allows you to overcome nihilism, and resentment, and arrogance. It is that declaration of faith that keeps hatred of Being, with all its attendant…
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Embracing Mystery
“The great beauty of life is its mystery, the inability to know what course our life will take, and diligently work to transmute into our final form based upon a lifetime of constant discovery and enterprising effort. Accepting the unknown and unknowable eliminates regret.”― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls In no small way, my life over…
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Embracing Metanoia
Metanoia is a Greek word that translates to “Change of Mind”, used many times in the New Testament. Thought to translate as “repentance”, though not as a practice fueled by guilt or shame, but literally to “change our direction”. As many of you who follow my blog know, I have been transitioning through a very…
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Bearing Our Cross
“O you souls who wish to go on with so much safety and consolation, if you knew how pleasing to God is suffering and how much it helps in acquiring other good things, you would never seek consolation in anything; but you would rather look upon it as a great happiness to bear the Cross…
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Ryan Hauck 