Siderius_Nuncius
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My Interests:
Prayer, Meditation, Worship, God, Angels, Afterlife, Interfaith issues, Movies, Books, Art, Marriage, Dreams, Writing, Poetry, Science Fiction, Plays, Playwriting, Gnosticism, Gnosis, UFOs, Theater, Adaptation, Mythology, Myths, Archetypes, Creativity, Magic, Art, Expressionism, Beat, Beat Poetry, Roswell, Greys, Skepticism, Romaticism, Kabbalah, Bop-Kabbalah, Rock Opera
My Favorite Books, Authors, Musicians, Movies, Preachers, TV shows, etc:
Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, VALIS, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, R.E.M., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rome, Cowboy Bebop, Moulin Rouge, It's a Wonderful Life, Donnie Darko, Star Trek, Superman, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Howl, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bob Dylan, All Along the Watchtower, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, The Ballad of David Icke, William Blake, Songs of In
Who Inspires Me:
My father, Galileo, Jordan Stratford+, The Virgin Mary, Superman, Captain America, Jesus
My organizations and affiliations:
University of Pittsburgh
My favorite spiritual activities:
Writing, Praying the Rosary, Meditating, Zazen, Talking, Communion, Dreaming, Creating, Loving
Who I'm praying for:
My friend Dominic, who has gone over the edge but is climbing his way back up. I love you, man.
What is your current spiritual mood?:
Worshipful
What's your spiritual type?:
Spiritual Straddler - I have one foot in traditional religion, one foot in free-form spirituality.
About Me
Let's simplify:
1) I believe in God.
2) My God is quiet.
3) He is marked both by his presence, in that he is always present, and by in absence, in that his presence resembles the presence of an absent loved one.
4) He is interested in me, and it seems that he is interested in the universe in whole and in part, including other people.
5) He has no gender, but I intuit a sense of maleness from him.
6) My God is perplexing, and does not explain things to me; to the best of my knowledge, he has never fully explained himself to anyone else, either.
7) As to whether or not he created and sustains the universe, I cannot say.
8) I believe we continue after death. More than that, who can say?
9) I am becomming more open to channels of communication with the spirit world (at least as metaphors) in dreams and visions.
10) Truth, Compassion, and Wisdom are my goals. At present, I have a little of each, and treasure what I have.
I think all this is a little more personal than the last description.
My Basics
Gender: Male
Occupation: In a liminal stage of employment
Relationship Status: Married
Faiths:
Unitarian Universalist
Faith Description: Agnostic Seeking Gnosis
Siderius_Nuncius's Journal
Posted: Nov 24, 2008 12:32 AM
What is this nonsense I spew? What strange fabrications, what desperate grasps for rope in the ocean? About to go to bed-- Mr.... (more)
Posted: Nov 22, 2008 11:14 PM
Well, Beliefnet just managed to delete my last post, which was quite lengthy. Maybe I'll try to update it later. Here's the skinny:... (more)
Posted: Nov 22, 2008 6:06 PM
Erin and I were discussing my previous post. She argued that Humanity is not yet united, and I agreed with her-- but an article of my... (more)
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Panentheism and alternate theology - October 7, 2008 - 01:19 PM
Panentheism means roughly God in everything. Think of it as all of Creation being the body of God, and God being the Soul of Creation. God interpenetrates everything, and we are all quite literally a part of him. I also personalize God in prayer, usually as Brother, in the sense of older brother, but sometimes Father or Mother depending on my mood.