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“Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.” — John 20:25 (KJV) Upon hearing the news of Christ’s resurrection, Thomas’s mind immediately goes to what he can see, to what…
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In Part I you are a reflection, a conscious mind held inside a larger Mind, the way a man named Frank would be held inside your imagination, you holding him in being. Frank reasons that the source behind the world’s pattern must be a face: personal, relational, a giving and a receiving older than creation…
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The Dream You Cannot Wake From ♪ (read with: Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel) You have had the dream where you know you are dreaming. Something tips you off: an elevator without walls, a face that shifts when you look too long, gravity doing something it shouldn’t. And for a moment, inside the dream,…
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Many people today are at a crossroads between freedom and fulfillment in our search for happiness. Should one pursue their desires in this material realm, or should they abandon their desires and move to the immaterial in an escapist, meditative fashion? Well, first let’s define what freedom and fulfillment are. Freedom, to put it simply,…
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Look closely at a tree. Each branch carries the shape of the whole, and each twig carries it again. Zoom into a coastline and the same jagged pattern appears at every scale. Watch lightning fork across the sky and it looks like a tree. Look at a bare tree against the sky and it looks…
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There is a youthful energy most of us recognize. Maybe you remember it in yourself, maybe you see it in younger people than you. A kind of rawness. The person showing early signs of the qualities, the spirit, of what is in store. Not the finished thing, but the silhouette against a distant horizon of…
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Media can be such a wonderful vehicle for change, especially when it’s used in a way that makes viewers think about the very things that define their lives. That is certainly the case in the above clip from Vinland Saga, where the young Prince Canute wakes up after a dream on a battlefield, remembering his…