Posted in Spirituality, tagged Aphrodite, Beauty, Birth, Brahman, Death, Divine Feminine, Family, God, Goddess, Hellenic Polytheism, Hinduism, Humanity, Life, Love, Marriage, Meaning, Mormonism, Mysticism, Mythology, Paganisn, Polytheism, Sex, Spirituality, Vedanta on July 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I feel a much closer connection to the divine feminine than I ever did to the divine masculine, my patriarchal Mormon upbringing notwithstanding. I guess either it just didn’t take, or it just wasn’t true. Or both, probably. I feel an intimacy and closeness with the overwhelmingly feminine divinity of Aphrodite that I have never [...]
Posted in Marriage, tagged Aphrodite, Bhagavad Gita, Blogging, Buddhism, Dionysus, Divine, Divinity, Emotion, Exmormon, Experience, Family, God, Goddess, Hinduism, Love, Marriage, Mormonism, Mysticism, Parenthood, Polytheism, Religion, Spirituality, Zen on April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So this is a post I have been meaning to write for a long time. I mention my beautiful and sexy wife often, but not often enough. It’s high time I gave her some much-deserved praise and explained how vital she has been in my spiritual journey.
When I first started questioning Mormonism, she was loving [...]
Posted in Spirituality, tagged All-Father, American Gods, Aphrodite, Bhagavad Gita, Deity, Dionysus, Divinity, Experience, God, Gods, Greek Mythology, Hera, Hinduism, Identity, Mysticism, Neil Gaiman, Neopaganism, Norse Mythology, Odin, Paganism, Pantheon, Polytheism, Psyche, Religion, Sleipnir, Spirituality, Tattoos, Vedanta, Zeus on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In case it hasn’t been crystal clear yet, I believe in multiple personal gods. I have personally had intense spiritual experiences with Dionysus and Aphrodite, but I am not necessarily set on specifically and exclusively honoring the ancient Greek pantheon. However, I have also prayed to Zeus and Hera at different times, and I have [...]
Posted in Religion, tagged Asatru, Bible, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Civilization, Culture, Doctrine, Druidry, Ecclesiology, Hinduism, Liturgy, Logos, Mormonism, Mysticism, New Age, Philosophy, Religion, Salvation, Satanism, Soteriology, Spirituality, Universe, Zen on March 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My initial reason for leaving Mormonism was because it conflicted with Christianity (at least the way I understood Christianity). So somewhat naturally, my assumption on the way out of Mormonism was that really finding God was just a matter of figuring out which Christian denomination I belonged in. The questions I was asking and trying [...]
Posted in Religion, tagged Apollo, Atheism, Athena, Athens, Autocracy, Christianity, Death, Demeter, Democracy, Dionysus, Divination, Divinity, Editorial, Family, Fear, God, Gods, Greece, Guilt, Hellenic Polytheism, Hellenismos, Hera, Heracles, Hercules, Heroism, Hindu Nationalism, Hinduism, Horus, Humanism, Humanity, Humility, India, Intelligence, Isis, Islam, Job, Judaism, Monotheism, Morality, Mortality, Multiculturalism, Newspaper, Old Testament, Omen, Pantheon, Paradox, Philosophy, Polytheism, Religion, Rome, Science, Secular, Skepticism, Socrates, Thales, Theology, Violence, Vishnu, Zeus on March 9, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mary Lefkowitz wrote an excellent article for the LA Times a little more than a year ago about the Greek gods that’s well worth reading.
Bring back the Greek gods
Mere mortals had a better life when more than one ruler presided from on high.
By Mary Lefkowitz
October 23, 2007 in print edition A-27
Prominent secular and atheist [...]
Posted in Religion, tagged AODA, Architecture, Asatru, Atonement, Belief, Bhagavad Gita, Brahman, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, Christmas, Church, Clergy, Cults, Culture, Druidry, Episcopalianism, Europe, God, Hinduism, Ideas, Incarnation, India, Indo-European, Jesus Christ, Liturgy, Morality, Mormonism, Music, Mythology, Nature, Priesthood, Religion, Resurrection, Seminary, Sin, Society, Soka Gakkai, Spirituality, Theology, Tradition, Truth, Upanishads, Values, Vedanta on December 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
On the one hand, I’m sure it looks like I’m going ’round and ’round in circles with God and religion, retreading the same ground and getting nowhere. Sometimes I wonder if that is in fact what is going on, and if I can ever be satisfied and happy. Most of the time, though, [...]
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