One of my favorite blog posts deals with Meister Eckhart and the whole existence/non-existence battle between theologians, philosophers, etc. A few days ago, I received an email from someone who was presenting a similar argument to a professor at a Catholic university and was inquiring about any additional evidence/thoughts backing up Eckhart's conclusions. After a bit of back-and-forth, the last email I sent to him provided what I felt was a solid ...

The Djinn (genies) were apparently created two thousand years before humanity. Originally there were held in the same high regard as that of the angels, but in some stories they were downgraded for refusing to kneel unto humans.

The Djinn, which refer to the hidden or invisible, are a part of the Arabic culture and heritage.

We learn about the Djinn from mostly Arabic folklore, the Koran, and Islamic tradition including the works of the ...

I was always taught that the greatest of religious thinkers (especially when dealing with Christianity) were the mystics. If you weren’t brought up on charges of heresy, then you didn’t have anything interesting and innovative to contribute. Judaism and true Christianity occasionally seem to be locked down by their own traditions and somewhat unable to take up new roots in fertile soil. But the mystical sides of these two compelling faiths stretch out ...

Religion is a wonderful and dangerous thing. Throughout time immeasurable religion has turned the poor into the rich, the blind into the sighted, and the lost into leaders through the sheer power of faith.

Religion, however, is only an idea - a faith based on an intricate map of values, culture, and history. It becomes dangerous when followers become servants; or when worship wanders from the infinite design into a more human form. How often do ...

For the longest time - despite my spiralling consumption by the occult world, and subsequent engulfing of Eastern philosophies - I always had a problem with the concept of karma in relation to our cultural bias and hustling worldview.

Maybe it's my indifference to the prospects of reincarnation, but karma, to me, seemed to only represent a quaint idea formulated by do-good holy men and perfected by "new age" alcolytes in an attempt to force the ...