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  1. Manoah

    Science/Religion Dialectic

    The title of the YouTube video linked below is slightly misleading as the conclusion reached states the human attributes necessary for spirituality and those necessary for science must work together, although some might be left-handed and some right-handed by analogy. The original title...
  2. Manoah

    Atheism and Faith

    I have several half-baked thoughts on which I would enjoy seeing discussion and development. 1. Doubt may be an indispensable part of faith within an individual. I wrote somewhere once that a least a part of me is atheist as I have moments when I want to believe only what I see (at times almost...
  3. Manoah

    Tarot Reading on Isis and Jesus

    I have documented recently on YouTube how I felt a divine frown from Isis and received explanation through the sign of a piece of pine straw. This kind of divine rebuke and reconciliation is familiar to me from fellowship with Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the all-father YWWH. I had a similar...
  4. Manoah

    Experiencing Odin

    I am uncertain about where to make this post because although my experience involves Odin, it is eclectic rather than fitting into a neat category such as neopagan or heathen. I have had some guidance from a priestess who probably identifies as pagan. Probably this is the best section as I have...
  5. Manoah

    Key Principles?

    One theoretical mathematics professor broke down knowledge into three styles: Euclidean, based on traditional logic and reasoning—which is always consistent, as in classical physics. Heuristics, or mental short cuts, also based on clear principles but not always applied consistently, for...
  6. Manoah

    Faith and Exclusion

    NOTE: This short essay was written to post on Facebook, where many of my friends are conservative Christians, so here I focus on Christian versions of exclusivity; obviously, the blessings and curses of exclusion are not limited to Christians. Although rigid exclusivity of faith has become so...
  7. Manoah

    The Mother Heart of God

    NOTE: THIS POST WAS WRITTEN PRIMARILY FOR MY FACEBOOK FEED, WHICH IS COMPOSED MOSTLY OF CHRISTIANS--HENCE THE CHRISTIAN EMPHASIS. A QUICK CLICK THROUGH MY WEBSITE, LINKED IN MY SIGNATURE, I THINK, MAY ASSURE YOU I HAVE A TRUE BLENDED OR INTERFAITH APPROACH. This Mother’s Day, I want to reflect...
  8. Manoah

    Many Worlds Theory and my Good Friday

    Yesterday was Good Friday 2019, and I felt as though I communicated with people from many different worlds: a priestess who is helping me understand interactions with Odin, my Messianic sister who was holding a Passover Seder, a Chinese professor who told me the bread of Christian communion...
  9. Manoah

    Engaging with Personified Deity

    This week I recorded in a blog the phases I have gone through in mixing my Christian faith with mystical experiences, including Goddess worship and communication with personified archetypes and deities. I also recorded a video version of the blog. Although my retrospective was done mostly for...
  10. Manoah

    Need help with Blended Path sources

    I am using the term "Blended Path" from popular culture (I picked it up from YouTubers), but I think it can refer to syncretism, sythesis, multiple belonging, mixing faiths and spiritual practices, etc. As I am working on a web page with linked sources that have helped me in integrating...
  11. Manoah

    Help Needed on "A Blended Path"

    Hello friends, I am working on a new website, mostly for my own benefit as I try to remember and chart the spiritual changes I have been experiencing over the past few years (certainly not selling anything!), and would love to have thoughts of others as I edit a tweak the material. I plan on...
  12. Manoah

    Question for the polyamorous

    I just watched a YouTube video posted by someone who works with magick, archetypes, and personified deity and who is very much in love with a partner in an open relationship. She identifies as "polyamorous." The question came to me as to whether anything would constitute being unethical in...
  13. Manoah

    What is the Role of Emotion in Your Religion?

    On the one hand, many faiths call on us to worship with all of our strength, soul, mind, and heart. A faith divorced completely from emotion might be heartless and cold. Yet emotionalism is rightly considered an unhealthy extreme. Here are some thoughts by Aldous Huxley that are likely to...
  14. Manoah

    Bloody Religion?

    I came across this quote in my new Tarot of Vampyres deck, which has a guidebook that surprised me with its spirituality. First let me say that I think probably we need both water and blood in our religion, but blood (metaphorically as well as literally) gets a bad rap in a lot of modern...
  15. Manoah

    What's Right with Fundamentalism?

    Although I dislike polarized, extremist ideology in most forms, I have been thinking about the some of the good impulses that drive fundamentalist groups. 1. A desire for simplicity or drive to get back to the basics: the Puritans, for example, get a very bad rap and are stereotyped with...
  16. Manoah

    Progressive Revelation

    I was taught that one of the key principles to interpreting scriptures (and I think the principle could be applied to any scared writings) is the principle of "progressive revelation," that as humans and/or humanity develops, more is revealed. (Some of the other principles included focus on the...
  17. Manoah

    Devi Prayer: Hymn to Divine Mother Akasha

    A very beautiful prayer and hymn to Divine Mother Akasha for anyone who can access the sacred space:
  18. Manoah

    Mystical Experiences through Disney

    After many years of being irreligious and atheist, I had a dramatic life transformation as I came to faith. I felt physically healthier and stronger because I had given up drinking, but I also experienced what I considered a spiritual honeymoon period of immense learning, quickly answered...
  19. Manoah

    The Divine Feminine

    I just posted this in a reply, but I am afraid it will be buried without response in a DIR. When I belonged to a new believer's (interdenominational Christian) discipleship group back in 1991, I had posed the question of feminism to the leader, who told me a few memorable things: 1. God...
  20. Manoah

    What's wrong (or right) with Perennialism?

    What's wrong with the Perennial Philosophy? In the article linked above, the author cites Jorge Ferrer with three problems with the classic idea of "One mountain, many paths." 1. All religions are not the same. 2. Perennialists tend to rank religions hierarchically. 3. Perenialism tends to the...
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