Religion in our world today presents us with a plethora of definitions, identities and faces of “God”, with many of these definitions on the surface at least, bearing little or no resemblance to each other.

For many years I have found this both puzzling and disturbing as I am a person who holds an unequivocal inner knowing that there is such a Being, yet what I feel within me is completely different to these descriptions of “God”.

Contemplating this apparent paradox, I began to consider some of the faces of “God” to which I had been exposed in my life. Continue reading “The Many Faces of “God”” →

A short while ago I had an Esoteric Chakra-puncture session and as I was talking to the practitioner about how I was feeling, he asked if I experienced anxiousness. I reflected for a moment on how my days had been lived over the previous few weeks and responded, “No, it’s not something I regularly or strongly experience; I’m more likely to feel tension in my nervous system and I easily recognise those signs.”

Following the session, and again the next morning, I reflected a bit more deeply on this and realised that there had been an underlying tension in my body for a few weeks, coinciding with a change in jobs, and I had also been biting some of my nails again after not having done so for 3 or 4 years. I had been eating more sweet and salty foods than usual, and I was feeling anxious about the workload I had, both at work and outside of it, on a number of different projects that I had been called upon to support. Continue reading “Anxiousness, Stillness, God and Me” →

I remember when I was a very young child, my mother teaching me a little prayer when we prayed together to Jesus each night.

What I remember most is the wonderful feeling of being held lovingly by him (or a presence) whenever I said or heard his name. I attended Sunday school when I was young, although I don’t remember a lot about it except the connection I felt to Jesus. Continue reading “The Master Jesus and Building a Body of Love” →

All my life I have had a strong feeling that God is real. Being brought up a Catholic this played out in my attending church and praying to God when I was struggling in life. However, at the time I always felt God was outside me so I would pray to him but I rarely felt I got any responses. Somewhere I thought that it was not truly possible for God to communicate with me.

Well this notion was completely turned upside down after hearing one of The Way of The Livingness sermons at a Universal Medicine event, setting in motion a series of events which confirmed to me that we are receiving love letters from God all the time, and that the magic of God is real.   Continue reading “Love Letters and the Magic of God” →

Many of us seek to practice a religion because we want a relationship with God, Christ, inner nature or the enlightened mind.

My experience with religion has shown me that the religion into which I was born actually had me engaging in rituals that had the opposite effect from deepening my relationship with God.

I refer to the effects of ritualistic daily prayer. By ritualistic I mean the articulation of the same prayers repeated over and over, at the same time daily, constantly for years on end. Continue reading “Religious Prayer Rituals: Love requires Presence” →