Author: Jeffrey Walston
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The Tintinnabulations of Success
The social world is skewered by presumptive notions of truth, typically arising from the realms of politics and religion. When politics has abandoned its own neutralizing center, preferring extremist ideas instead, and when religion abandons the living Spirit in favor of dead or obsolete dogma, there will be social unrest. This is because…
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Inspirational Catalysts and the Mystery of Beauty
Isaac Asimov once asserted that if it hadn’t been for the presence of the moon, human civilization would never have developed as quickly as it did. Early humans, he argued, were fascinated by the moon, and were stimulated to decipher the mystery of its existence. What were the phases of the moon, and why…
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American Politics and the Spice of Independence
To be politically independent means being true to our integrity, and we cannot be true to our integrity without also being spiritually independent. To be more than the product of our impulses, we must live with a heart surrendered, that we might access the wisdom within our soul as conveyed to us through the…
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Romantic Love and the Essence of Truth
The essence of truth can be found in the palpable harmony present in spiritual clarity, as well as in the flowering of romantic love. This suggests a possible spiritual basis for romantic love, though it is typically not recognized as such. For romantic love to succeed, the self-centeredness of both partners must first…
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Instinct and the Social Wilderness
At the instinctive level, the lives of young men are more expendable than the lives of young women, and there is a good reason for this instinct in terms of human survival. Imagine there were only 100 people left alive on the Earth, but that these 100 lived together in a single village,…
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Honoring the Essence of the Earth: What is Peace?
Peace is the substance of collective maturity. It is the inevitable outcome of sufficient ripened souls. Hundreds of years may be required before humanity attains the cultural capacity for pervasive peace, because of all the entrenched bureaucracies and theologies which trend toward something different. Governments all claim that they desire peace, but their actions…
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Honoring the Essence of the Earth: Who is Jesus?
The spiritual economy is one of incessant growth, whose capital is the essence of souls. It requires the investment of souls to bring health to any nation, but the souls are not consumed by this yet rather they flourish and they prosper. The wealth of a nation is determined by the relative…
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Honoring the Essence of the Earth: What is Freedom?
If we are to believe in a soul, and that this soul survives our mortal existence, then it follows that this soul very possibly preceded us as well. Many of us confuse heart and soul, but it’s clear that there must be a distinction. Clearly, the heart can be traced to conception, or at…
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Honoring the Essence of the Earth: What is Destiny?
The concept of destiny seems to require a vehicle through which to effect a particular outcome in a person’s life. According to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, 83% of Americans believe in a soul or spirit which exists in addition to our physical selves. Perhaps these are related to…
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Honoring the Essence of the Earth: What is Success?
In a spiritual sense, success is right relation to God, and this must first be established before it can be maintained. Right relation requires a surrendered heart, and many of us falter here because it requires relinquishing control of our lives. But we are not relinquishing control to an arbitrary entity such as…