The Future Role of Religion in Education
The overriding powers that hitherto in the individual soul and in the community have struggled and prevailed against the ferocious, base, and individual impulses that divide us from one another, have been the powers of religion and education. [More]

Bringing Our World Into Focus
Taking our cue from Plato, let us think of the temporal world as a "moving image of eternity." If such is the case, then the course of our existence is-- as Plato elsewhere describes it --a relatively superficial reflection of a deeper reality that we may be more or less aware of and attuned to. [More]

Emanation
The word "Emanation" comes from the Latin e-manare, "to flow forth". The cosmos and finite beings are all seen as having emerged out of the Absolute Reality through a sort of "out-flowing". Metaphors are with the ocean (the Absolute) and the waves (the Universe); the Sun (the Absolute) and the Light that shines from it (the Universe); a fountain (the Absolute) which overflows (the universe); and so on. [More]

Defining Spirit
I think of Spirit as the facilitator of cosmic gestalt, the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Spirit is not an additional or an extraneous part or one big part to carry the other parts. It is the energy that makes possible the existence of parts and other energies. It doesn't really defy logic so much as simply existing outside logic but within, around, and throughout everything. [More]

The Still Point
When I had to read Eliot in high school, the depth of his allusions were over my head, but a few years ago I started reading some of his work again and I was amazed at the depth of spiritual realization in his verses. [More]

With Reference to the Good
The admonition to Follow your Bliss is an affirmation of individual freedom under God. Or put another way, it is the affirmation of individual freedom with reference to the Good. [More]