Humour in Spirituality

Perception of Disconnection

Power of the Trickster

Profound Wisdom
There is wisdom in what we were born as, and there is wisdom in what many of us on deaths threshold realize was true of life. The confusion tends to be mostly in the middle, while we are busy being “good grown-ups”. As a Hospice volunteer, I did see some realizations and some denial. Oh, some still deny. They genuinely fear supernatural judgement. It‘s sad really that this corruption can taint even the death experience. When it is certain one would die in Japanese culture, that person was excused from any work, any obligation, and encouraged to reflect on life and their feelings. This did not excuse their

Harming None
The topic is indulgence. At first, I want to start by distinguishing between indulgence and compulsion. Compulsory behaviour is actually very common. A lot is even considered normal thus “common sense”, but it reflects a degeneration of human awareness on all fronts to my view. An abdication of personal responsibility, and an excuse to not reflect on personal desires or motivations. I see it as leading to nothing more in the long run than the omni-present mental illness that most of us have gotten good at ignoring. Blindly doing by rote? Well, even worse. Doing by force. Lacking, or believing we lack, choic

Preserve Inspiration
Your memory, as we are taught to use it, has been taken up with your thinking. It wasn’t meant for that. Memories original purpose was to allow ourselves to retain impulses and sensory impressions. To keep us in touch with our inner and outer worlds. Not to be a stage for us to rehearse our thinking. Like perfume of food, they say perfumes have a memory and foods have an aftertaste. Well, the memory is the aftertaste of the immortal ambrosia of Cerridwens brew from the Celtic myth. Memory is to preserve inspiration. It’s not meant to keep anything about you rigid. The most rigid people on the planet we bury in holes. We call the state rigor

Don’t Worry, Be Crazy
The literal meaning of cult is a body of practices. Cult culture. The culture cult is a huge cult, and they fear cultists. Cultists are doing culture a huge favour. They need the cultists to believe their cult is sane, because culture and our educated thinking only seems stable in the contrast, not by itself. If we stop and look at our lives, and the self we are told we are… How many people here feel like they’re crazy? I am being told I am sane by professionals. Should I be scared? It’s maybe a little bit of a problem, but I know you to be well equipped to grow beyond it.

Be An Artist
Anyone not have impulses? I know I do, and aren’t artists known for being impulsive? It’s almost a stereotype. Well, it is true, and any artist can tell you the difference between you and them is not what’s in your head, but how they feel about it. For an artist, an impulse is powerful like feeling a steady rain. For others they are inclined to do as they are taught. Grin and bear the rain, because they have “more important” things to do. They aren’t supposed to be responsive, and someone else is always responsible. We can all be artists. I prefer to get out of the rain, unless I really need or w