Greg Mayers

3rd Tier Response

If you want to know what a 3rd tier behaivor looks like read this story from the Desert Fathers....                 Once a brother committed a sin in Scetis, and the elders assembled and sent for Abba... Read More

For Self or For Others

For the first thirty or forty years we do our meditation, or contemplation, or zazen (our spiritual practices) for ourselves. On the one hand we are searching for our true self, our real self, the free, happy, balanced, sane, generous, holy self that we want to be. On the other hand, we... Read More

Trinity Unveiled

There is probably no doctrine more difficult to explain, defend or make relevant for us mortals than the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Christianity, a monotheistic religion which acknowledges only one God, has been accused of worshiping three Gods because of its insistence on the... Read More

Christianity, Gnostics and Rosicrucians

Modern people in the first world cultures have a suspicion, it seems to me, that somebody is hiding something really important from them. This is especially true when it comes to religion. The "suspicion" expresses itself in two ways, that I can tell. One is that the... Read More

Rainbow Body and Resurrection

Introduction... All we have to rely on for understanding both the rainbow body and the Resurrection is the testimony of witnesses. There is no modern empirical evidence to demonstrate either. When we take the witnesses' reports on both phenomena and compare them, we can see that they are... Read More

The Tax On Being Human

There is a new theory out about how we became human, how the transition happen between a higher primate species and the human species. The theory is not in competition with the theory of evolution, which is a theory of genetics, of material development and completely ignores the... Read More

What Is The Resurrection, Really?

We are enthralled by death. It is what gave us awareness, then consciousness, then a sense of self, according to Rene Girard. Our “animal” attention was drawn to the death of an “other”, fixed on it. This happen not once, but repeatedly over thousands of years... Read More

Stephen Hawking "The Grand Design"

I probably won't read Stephen Hawking's book, The Grand Design,  mainly because of what I heard today (Sep 17) on Science Friday on NPR. You can check this out on the web page. Recent (like within the last few months or maybe a year) observations have brought into question something... Read More