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“Death is Your Destination” — Steve Jobs
I’ll leave it to others to summarize what has been a most remarkable life. My own son said it pretty well, however. My wife and I were having dinner last night in a restaurant when he texted me to say, … Continue reading
Posted in death, Dr Steve McSwain, Steve Jobs
Tagged Bill Maher, buddha, death, Death Is The Monster, Death Is Your Guru, Jesus, Muhammad, Religion News, Saint Paul, Steve Jobs
Secrets of a Divine Life: Lessons I’ve Learned from Jesus, the Buddha, Lao-Tzu and Other Spiritual Masters
I’m putting the skeletal framework together for a new book on the things I’ve learned from Jesus, the Buddha, Lao-Tzu and other spiritual masters. I’d love your comments and suggestions. Read and tell me what you think. Be assured I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Awakening, Buddha, Christian, Dr Steve McSwain, ego, enlightenment, Faith, Happiness, Inner Peace, Jesus, Religion, Spirituality, Steve McSwain, steve-mcswain, The Awakened Life, The Enoch Factor, Uncategorized
Tagged Awakening, buddha, christianity, Christians, divine life, enlightenment, Happiness, Jesus, lao tzu, secrets, spiritual masters, The Buddha
For This, I Give Thanks
She was very young when my stepdaughter, now a beautiful young lady, met my extended family at our traditional Thanksgiving gathering. When the evening was over and we were driving home, I asked, “Well, what’d you think of Thanksgiving at the McSwains?”
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Posted in Buddha, Christianity, Giving Thanks, Islam, Thanks, Thanksgiving, the Buddha
Tagged buddha, christianity, for my children, for my parents, giving, I give thanks, in-laws, islam, Jesus, thanks, thanksgiving, The Buddha
Conversations from a post-Christian world…
Conversations from a post-Christian world… Continue reading
Posted in post-Christian world
Tagged authority of the bible, bahai faith, beliefs, believe, believing, bible, buddha, Christians, conversations, faith, Jesus, jesus is my way, many lamps, one light, perspectives, post-christian world, religion, snake-handling baptists, southern baptist, spiritual awakening, spirituality, uniqueness of Jesus
Enoch Walked with God: If He Did, So May We
Enoch is the human archetype of the sacred art of knowing God. History records the myths and legends of persons who lived at a level of God-consciousness never realized by the majority of their contemporaries. A few of them are … Continue reading
Posted in enoch walked with god, How to Know God
Tagged avatar, buddha, Christians, enoch, enoch walked, enoch walked with god, know god, knowing god, saints, tzadikim
Is Enlightenment the Same Thing as Being Born Again?
Perhaps so! When Easterners refer to being “Enlightened,” “Awakened,” or “Conscious” is that the same thing that Christians mean by being “Born Again,” Saved,” or “Converted?” Most likely. But, this much is certain. Virtually every religious tradition has coined words … Continue reading
Posted in Spirituality
Tagged awaken, born again, born blind, buddha, enlightenment, Happiness, john 9, joy, lao tzu, laughter, man born blind, transcendence
Death is Your Guru; Let It Teach You
Death is your guru; let it teach you. Those words were spoken by the Buddha himself. You can learn to cope with death; indeed, with any crisis. I talk about this and other spiritual things in my new book The Enoch Factor: Sacred Art of Knowing God. Continue reading
Posted in Death: Coping with Crisis
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Why the "Law of Attraction" Doesn’t Work for Most People
Author/Speaker/Spiritual Leader Provides Clues in Groundbreaking New Book, The Enoch Factor: Sacred Art of Knowing God. Continue reading
Posted in Law of Attraction
Tagged alter-ego, angry motorists, attention, Awakening, awareness, beliefs, believe, bodhi tree, buddha, Christian, Christians, church, church leaders, consciousness, culture, dark side, degree of insanity, devil, discontent, divine laws, dysfunctional, edge God out, efficacy of prayer, ego, energy, energy frequencies, energy particles, energy waves, enlightened one, faith, fear, god's laws, gratitude, higher energy, hostile situations, human unhappiness, iblis, illusion, insane, insanity, intention, islam, james, joy, law of asking and receiving, Law of Attraction, law of believing, law of gravity, laws of the universe, letter to the philippians, lower energy frequencies, negative thoughts, negativity, new testament, peace, philippians, positive thoughts, pray, pray to receive, prayer, Presence, pseudo-religious, quantum physics, religion, religious, road rage, Saint Paul, satan, secret, secrets, self aggrandizement, self-centered, self-obsessed, self-serving, siddhartha gautama, spiritual awakening, spiritual law, spiritual laws, The Buddha, the secret, thoughts, universal law, vibrational frequencies
"God Has No Religion!"
Christian Theologian Agrees with Gandhi’s statement that “God has no religion!” in groundbreaking new book, The Enoch Factor: Sacred Art of Knowing God. Continue reading
Posted in Religion vs Spirituality
Tagged being itself, bliss consciousness, buddha, buddhism, Christians, consciousness, Dalai Lama, divine consciousness, followers, god, god consciousness, god realization, higher self, hinduism, Hindus, histo, human suffering, insanity, rabbi, religion, ridicule, saltshaker, samadhi, seeking god, spiritual seeker, taoism, ultimate reality, universal intelligence, universal mind
