How the Universe looks from here for Sunday, September 9, 2012

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

Body and Spirit -- Part Two: Why We Can't End World Hunger With Magic

It has been recently reported that liberalism and conservatism are personality-driven choices: the more anxious personality clings to the security of rules and order. This personality prefers everyone to follow the same rules, to keep the world more predictable. Being so fear-based, this is a body-driven personality, where Self is identified with the body's imperatives When such a personality looks to the spiritual for support, it is looking at the Divine, however it defines that, as something... Sign in to see full entry.

Spirit and Body: It's about balance

I've written on this topic before, a long time ago, a long ways back: the difference between physical and spiritual realities, and the futility of trying to manage either one with the truths and solutions of the other. We are human beings: creatures composed of physical matter, that houses spiritual essence. We don't have souls: We are souls, that have bodies. (Someone recently attributed this statement to CS Lewis, but if he said it, good chance he got it from George MacDonald, one of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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