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A Personal Evolving Cosmology (Part 1)

My spiritual beliefs have been and remain to an extent shaped by Christianity. Growing up I didn’t really have much exposure to spirituality. I was raised in a monotheistic culture. I knew the stories of the Old and New Testaments. I sang Christian Hymns every morning at school. But It was never something that had […]


Secularization, Spiritual Subjugation and Atheism

In my previous post On the Threshold Between One Life Path and Another, I said that, “I’m a big believer that everyone whether they are secular or spiritually inclined are, in the larger scheme of things, on the right path towards whatever it is that their life is ultimately about.” By this, I am not […]


Vertical Dualism of Mother Earth and Father Sky (Mythology Synchroblog 3)

This post is one of many in the third Mythology Synchroblog (View the list of other bloggers below)
…the primordial image of Mother Earth…is found throughout the world in countless forms and variants. It is the Terra Mater or Tellus Mater so familiar to Mediterranean religions, who gives birth to all beings.
…In some religions Mother Earth […]


Mircea Eliade’s Definition of Myth

All myths participate in some sort in the cosmological type of myth — for every account of what came to pass in the holy era of the beginning (in illo tempore) is but another variant of the archetypal history: how the world came to be.
The creation of the World being the pre-eminent instance of creation, […]


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