how can we even pretend in our reaching to think that we are touching, touching anyone let alone ourselves? in this age of sound bytes\technology\social networking\webo-blogo-fucko-spheres, who REALLY touches anyone on a personal or authentic level? is this by design?did someone\thing bring us here, or did we just stumble to this impersonal ded-space as a […]
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Stream of Life
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same […]
“Our minds are continually active, fabricating an anxious, usually self-preoccupied veil which partially conceals the world.” Iris Murdoch
I love this because it feels so true for me. I am not proud of my continually active fabricating mind but I am proud of my honesty with myself around my anxious self-preoccupied challenges. It […]
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” - Philip K. Dick
A challenging concept.
I have friend who always dates the wrong type of guy; usually extremely good looking sometimes violent steroid abusers with very little education. Every relationship she has always ends horribly. She consistently chooses the same type of guy to date, and she has expressed to me that she knows she keeps making the […]
[View full posting] Building on my Déjà vu house key idea, here is my latest crazy spiritual concept:
Suppose there are multiple universes, and as we advance spiritually we jump from universe to universe. Your life, who you are right now, is actually one instance in an endless string of lives you have inhabited.
It’s like playing […]
I had a thought about what déjà vu might be.
Physicists believe that there are alternate realities all around us. Part of this theory is that every instant our universe splits into an infinite number of alternate universes. Some have extrapolated on this idea, proposing that universes close to our own […]
“Just think of the trees: They let the birds perch and fly, with no intention to call them when they come and no longing for their return when the fly away. If people’s hearts can be like the trees, they will not be off the Way.” - Langya
[View full posting] I hate going to Wal-mart. The average Wal-mart shopper is poor, overweight, unhygienic, and ugly. They aren’t like me. I’m better than the average loser.
I can convince myself of my superiority when I’m home. I can watch the beautiful people on television and delude myself into thinking I am one of […]
I will start off by saying I haven’t been here since November of last year. Every now and then I wonder if there is anything new going on here at osscast. Spirituality, seems like maybe the most interesting discussion topic in the world after sex. And yet there is a surprising silence on this […]
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Open·Source·Spirituality n. The use of Open Source methodologies in the creation of spiritual belief systems. Followers see themselves as part of a more generalized open source movement, which does not limit itself to software, but applies the same principles in the creation of open source culture.
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OSSCastMissionStatement We are the way we experience our God- through one another. We become the trailblazers of our reality and what we find will surprise us by confirming our vastness again and again. Perhaps, in being reminded of this, you will acknowledge in yourself your ability to be the creator and the created of your reality, to choose what you want to happen and then be surprised by the way it unfolds.
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