The Pulse of Spirit

Near the end of the iconic horror film from 1941, The Wolf Man, the Gypsy, Maleva, says this to Lon Chaney, who plays the wolf man:   The way you walked was thorny, through no fault of your own. After being bitten

There are essentially only four things we can think about.  We can think about the physical world in which we live. That includes the current state of our body and the circumstances in which we find ourselves. The physical world

As above, so below.    This saying is from the Hermetic tradition, originating in a Greek text from about the 2nd century B.C. in Egypt. The text was revered in the ancient world. It appeared in Arabic as the Emerald Tablets

Emissaries of Divine Light was born out of divine inspiration and out of America’s culture in the 1930s. In that culture, there was a prevalence of Christianity. So, in many ways, this program was born out of that Christian culture.

In last week’s Pulse of Spirit, I addressed the relationship between our words and actions and the field of energy we generate. Here is an excerpt from it: There is a powerful relationship between the creative expression of an individual

What we manifest in expression and action often has clear, practical implications. You might need to balance your checkbook, cook breakfast, or do whatever it is. So there are clear implications in terms of the practical world. But something else

What do you do when you meet an extraordinary person? Someone who, for whatever reason, knocked your socks off, and you said to yourself, Whoa, this is different! Unusual! Out of the ordinary! If we are lucky, we might encounter someone

One of my favorite country western songs is by Johnny Cash, written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore: “Ring of Fire.”  The song is about human love and romance. But life itself can seem like that. The fiery nature of

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, celebrating the end of slavery in America.    Here is an expression that has become common today: “It’s not a bug. It’s a feature.” Meaning, It is designed that way. And slavery was like that. It was not just

So how about those Nuggets? In case you don’t follow American basketball, the Nuggets are the team from Denver, Colorado, and they just won the American pro-basketball finals. Living in Colorado, it’s a happy occasion for me and for friends. 

Artificial intelligence—AI—can be a controversial topic. In this article, I want to speak of AI. But that is not really the subject. The subject of this article is us—humankind and human culture.  Sometimes our world and how we feel about it