Monthly Archives: July 2005

When I started working in health care, I wondered how I would react to having to deal with the death of a patient, and how I would feel about touching a dead body. As it turned out, I found it to be a deeply moving experience. This is an essay I wrote a year or so ago, after my first such experience. Tom died today. His name wasn’t really “Tom”. That’s just what his friends called him, probably because his real name was one of those that kids get teased … Continue reading →

After discovering the complete absurdity of my God-image (see Creating God in Our Own Image) I started working on coming up with a new one. Because of my quest to find the relationships between life and science and religion and spirituality, I have tried to build a God-image that works for all of them, incorporating not just what I learned in Sunday School and church and so forth, but everything I have learned from life, as well. It’s far from complete, but so far I’m quite pleased with how it’s … Continue reading →

I brought up the topic of spiritual dyslexia before (Paradox), and thought I’d expand on that a bit. One of the multitudinous things we humans have got all turned around is the whole God’s Image thing. The book of Genesis says that God created man in His own image. It occurs to me, however, that we have actually created God in our image. Think about it. How do you picture God? Imagine yourself arguing with someone over whether God exists. You can put yourself on whichever side of the argument … Continue reading →

My ponderings on things spiritual and energetic have continued without interruption since my previous postings on love and energy and physics. (Let There be Light, Have You Hugged Your Rabbit Today?, Reality, and Other Strange Notions, Further Explorations, Attack of the Killer Strawberries) I haven’t written about them in a while, because I keep waiting for them to formulate themselves into some organized and coherent form which can be condensed into a few concise paragraphs that will sum it all up in such a way that everyone who hears it … Continue reading →