Browsing the archives for the metaphysics tag

Do you believe in divine intervention?

As promised in recent posts, I want to share some of my spiritual beliefs and start to explain them. The specific question which I asked you a few days ago was: what do you think about the apparent “divine intervention” which saved Evette and I from teaching in Tokyo when the earthquake hit? In the [...]

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March 16, 2011 by in About Simon, Thoughts For the Day
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Do things happen for a reason? (I was meant to teach in Japan on earthquake day!)

Is there a higher force looking after us? (A skeptic confronts his extraordinary good luck) In a recent post I shared my view, consisted with Tao philosophy, that there is no inherent meaning in the universe.  Things don’t happen for a reason. Things happen. “Life Is.”  It is humans who add meanings to things. As [...]

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March 12, 2011 by in Thoughts For the Day
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An introduction to Metaphysics

In today’s blog we introduce some material from the introduction chapter of our Level 3 course manual. It will be new for most of you (who haven’t taken Level 3). Metaphysics The most overused and misunderstood word in spiritual circles (after “energy”) is the word metaphysics. If you have ever heard a spiritual person refer [...]

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July 6, 2010 by in RPT theory and teachings
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