Limited by Our Understanding.This is a continuation of a series titled: Hearing Voices. Preceding chapters are here.By Tom Carrollwww.SacredSpace.org October 21, 2012 Disembodied voices. Crossing three continents, and oceans. A guy who knows me as well as anyone says it was all just the work of an overactive imagination. Stealing an expensive blanket from some very nice people. I say, “borrowed” But that’s not how it would look if I failed to return it before they saw it missing. Wandering around in a desert. What’s significant about any of this? Where was the stuff of experienced psychological transformation? What could I really say…
Author: Tom Carroll
This is a continuation of a series titled: Hearing Voices. Preceding chapters are here.By Tom Carrollwww.SacredSpace.org October 14, 2012 The Finish Line – But Not The End.The Dead Sea and desolate mountains rising sharply from its East and West shores. This is an environment as unforgiving as the politics of the people who live here. The only visible water is so salt and mineral saturated that it instantly, painfully attacks the mouth of anyone trying to drink it – a blessing considering that sickness and vomiting would result. People don’t swim there – they float – on their backs. Not knowing better, on…
By Tom Carrollwww.SacredSpace.org Late one rainy afternoon in the parking lot of my bank I dropped a gold nugget. It had been in a wooden box with several old pieces of jewelry. Rings, one raw nugget and a nugget studded stick pen. There were also tie clasps and cuff links from another era and an assortment of broken chains and other bits and pieces, some solid and others gold plated. They were things that I had no use for but which still held sentimental value and with the rising price of the metal I’d decided to put them all in…
By Tom Carrollwww.SacredSpace.org This title could refer to a bad novel – one that plays on plot lines stolen from all those other thrillers you’ve read. For others there’s a ring of something from a different sort of book – or heard from a wise teacher – the idea that the end of all things was known before anything began. Head twister that this is, the idea opens quite simply as we look into the heart of our existence. When you consider that there is no such thing as time – you’ve been considering that – right? And when you…
By Tom Carrollwww.SacredSpace.org Sedona AZ (July 18, 2012) – A friend wrote this week, remarking on a topic that just keeps coming around – Spiritual abuse – or simply, abuse of power in spiritual communities. Her remarks were interesting and coincidental with my own just the day before – as I shared conversation with a friend and teacher on the same subject. The question was; “At what point is an (1) enlightened person free from the common temptations – sex, money and power?” Getting right to the point – Supposed enlightened people are still breaking their vows, sleeping with students and…