Category: Grammar

My Credo – Where I Lay My Heart The grammar is built. Now I must add my own words and sing my own song. May my prayer travel outward, wide and clear, like the light of the sun following its path. Let it ring true, an authentic expression of my faith. The words in this…… Continue reading Postlude

Moving to a consciousness-first view takes a more substantial inversion than we realise. Reading about different theories and judging the logic doesn’t make the inversion; we’re still in a detached position outside the stance. Suppose someone completes all the intellectual steps: they follow the argument, judge it true and accept it as the better model…… Continue reading Chapter 3 – Orientation Enacted

our choices. That doesn’t mean it’s created in isolation. We inherit our beliefs and values from existing religions, philosophies and our culture. Regardless of those sources, we have to live out our worldview for it to be real. We rely on second-hand knowledge for many things in our lives: our doctor for knowledge about our…… Continue reading Chapter 2 – Faith Is Fidelity

The picture of reality this book has built is now complete. It started from where we’re standing and concluded with love as the controlling principle of all reality. But a picture of reality is something you live within, not something you observe from afar. The intellect has carried us this far. Now we have to…… Continue reading Chapter 1 – A Religion of One

We can think of the various relationships to the Absolute with a familiar example. A monarch is one person who has many different relationships. His citizens relate to him in an impartial way, they don’t know him by name or have access to his private life. Their interactions are indirect and only concerned with the…… Continue reading Chapter 2 – Shades of Intimacy

We search for peace as if it were the highest goal. We try to remove suffering and agitation, hoping to reach a state of satisfied equilibrium. But suppose we did achieve that state, would it be enough? When our will moves in harmony with the universal good, the friction falls away. The resulting peace is…… Continue reading Chapter 1 – Peace Is Not Enough

We trust our experience to reveal reality to us. We couldn’t function otherwise. Mostly we’re right to trust that our experience points to something real. Hunger and pain are signals pointing beyond themselves to something real in the world. Hunger implies food exists; it isn’t an illusion but a signal pointing toward something that can…… Continue reading Chapter 4 – Hearing the Good

If alignment with the movement of the field creates peace, how can we discover it? If peace is the felt quality of moving in harmony with the good, we need a reliable way to know when we’ve drifted off course and which way to move to adjust. The main obstacle to moving toward the good…… Continue reading Chapter 3 – Why Misalignment Feels like Suffering

When we picture the luminous field, we see it spread out before us. We’re above it, looking down from a vantage above and beyond the field itself. It’s a natural viewpoint, because it’s how we navigate the world, and it seems like a neutral stance: a detached observer, free of the biases that arise from…… Continue reading Chapter 2 – Alignment and Inner Freedom

In a physical universe, movement is mechanical and particles are pushed by external forces. In a conscious field, motion can’t be an unconscious process because the field itself is self-luminous and aware. So if movement isn’t by external force, how does a conscious field move? Notice your own consciousness. It’s always about something: the words…… Continue reading Chapter 1 – The Field Has a Will