The Pulse of Spirit

DAVID KARCHERE Here is a teaching of Jesus from Matthew 25. He often taught in stories, using symbology familiar to people of his day, as he did here. Our Pulse of Spirit illuminates what this story holds for us. Then

During this Christmas Season, I want to share my own experience and understanding of what Jesus taught. I don’t want to represent this as what he was really saying. That would be presumptuous. And I don’t want to fall into

Tonight is the last night of Hanukkah. As someone who wasn’t brought up in Jewish culture, I became curious about the deeper meaning of the holiday. Growing up, I remember how, in elementary school, there were these few days—usually somewhere

Would you say that when we think about the world in which we live, much of what comes up for us is names? There is this person and that person; there is so-and-so and so-and-so. There are the people close

The present moment is the great equalizer and the great gathering place. It is the present moment wherever you are, as it is for me and for everyone reading this article. In fact, it is the only place any of

What a simple thing! The primal experience of allowing the heart to soften so that it can receive the fire of Love! And so that the waters of the emotional body may thaw, and things may flow in the human

The torus is a donut-shaped flow of energy identified by the ancient Greeks. It shapes Creation in the micro and the macro, from the atom to galaxies, to human life. Think of the Milky Way Galaxy. That is the shape

On this 2021 Halloween, we are honoring our lineage and our ancestors. Halloween tends to emphasize misunderstanding and superstition regarding those who are no longer with us in human form. What truth can we embrace regarding our lineage and our

What is compassion? People define it in many ways. Here’s my take. The root of the word compassion is about experiencing something with another. It implies empathy. If we see another person suffering, we might think, I really wish things

As is often the case, the Pulse of Spirit this week was born out of a transcription of my words at the Morning Service offered online via Zoom and Facebook from Sunrise Ranch this past Sunday. This week, I noticed

Have you ever been really lost? I recall a time like that as a little boy. I was with my mother at an adult affair, a meeting of some sort at a private residence in Connecticut. I was left to

Something magical happens when we acknowledge that there is something more we have to give to our world. We might call it love, but love is everything, is it not? When we love, it motivates us to serve others in