Written Essays

All the essays but one are included in Long Thoughts for Short Attention Spans. However they were written to stand alone rather than in the context of a collection and you may find some valuable and others not so much. Here you can read any individual work in your browser or "Download PDFs of of the individual essays. They are formatted without images, just a cover page, so the files are fairly small.

	Essay on the Essays An intro with a bit of humor and profundity
	Belief The handshake between mind and emotions
	Mysticism An emotional approach to spiritual realities
	Redefining Emotions Using the solar plexus as a creative center
	So Then What? The success of meditation
	Inspiration by Watts Assigning wattages to enlightenment
	Environmental Psychotherapy An emotional wreck creates his way out of it
	This, That, or Both? Contentious subjects are not necessarily either/or
	Evolution of an Aphorism A childhood truth evolved to universal principle
	The Roots of Ethical Behavior Slightly lugubrious with digressions and nonsense
	This Way Out Here's 'The Answer'. Oops no it isn't, or is it?
	Free Will Freedom? License? Neither!
	Continuous Creation The universe is a constant state of creation
	Unified Field Theory A cannonball off Einstein's diving board
	God's Nose The universe is expanding ... wait for God to inhale
	The Purpose of Life Discovering the meaning of our lives
	Pondering Christ Trying to grasp the reality of a greater universe
	Lucifer's Legacy 200,000 years of a failed sophistry
	I'm Not a Christian Creeds, books and traditions are only guideposts
	Inquire Within The story of a skeptic's intro to the larger reality
	Portrait of Christ Meeting Christ described with image
	The Second Coming New world or new Earth, who knows?
	OMG A deist comes out of the closet
	Love Story A circuit of Love changes reality
	Love Is Not Like Love is real energy only reflected in emotions
	My Autobiography Not too self-important ... whew, that was close
	Poignant The sweet pain of poignancy remembered
	Concept Kernels One page too long? How about a paragraph
	Concept Kernels II More extreme distillations of profound subjects
	In Conclusion Simplifying a great mystery
	Toast In memory of Mom
	The Creator's Path Each creation contains the seeds of the next
	Prayer, Worship and Creation An essay written for a Urantia Book gathering
	Given A walking meditation adds meaning to the obvious
	Revivifying a Word Taking the ugh out of religion
	Creek Tuning Everyone is right in spirituality
	The Science of Love Conciliating science and religion
	Do Be Do Be Do Are you a human doing or a human being?
	Phrenetic Hypothesis A cosmic speculation with refutation
	Metathinking Thinking about thinking is ponderous
	From Sin To Oops I take the doom out of sin and leave oops
	Universal Symphony We are all parts of a cosmic orchestra
	Subjective Science Spiritual science is subjective rather than objective
	An Experiment in Love Creating a circuit of love in a small group
	KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
	The Futility of Prophecy I refute my own semi-prophetic speculation
	Old Sparky We have a spark of God inside us
	God's Body My favorite sort of cosmic analogy
	A String Theory of Eternity This may be my favorite essay
	Plateau Aha! Eureka! I understand... for a moment
	Legs In Paradise Speculation on human spiritual destiny
	Community Education Personal competency strengthens community
	So What's Not to Like? You have a problem with the ‘G’ word?
	I Can't Cant the Cant Religious formalities make me squirm
	I Love With You Love is great; loving with is sublime
	Universal Communication Accessing the cosmic circuits is for everyone
	Hours A suggestion for a new world currency
	Where Does Money Come From? Further Thoughts on Hours
	Plain and Simple An Attempt to Limit Spiritual Complexities
	Ten Years of Forgiveness Asking for Divine Assistance
	A Most Important Posession A Conception of the Universe
	Family The Foundation of Society
	A Personal Universe Created By and For Persons
	Consciousness At Rest Heart or Mind?
	New World Disorder Let the Divine Rule