Believing in only one true path: Your own
I am going to make an effort to point out in a realistic, compassionate way one of the major issues with this particular fundamentalist religious belief: “There is but one, sole correct religious path:...
View ArticleReligious overtones of Get Motivated seminar in Nashville
The Examiner‘s article about the Nashville, Tennessee Get Motivated seminar rightly asks: Get Motivated!: Business seminar or spiritual revival? The correct answer: A strangely discordant combination...
View ArticleWho or what is Gurdjieff?
As I was scanning a list of Nashville-area spiritual Meetup groups, I ran across an unfamiliar term: Gurdjieff. Because Gurdjieff is apparently something relating to the subject of spirituality, I was...
View ArticleAre the teachings of Wayne Dyer blasphemous?
Conservative religious views toward New Thought, perennial philosophy Are the teachings of Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, and Eckhart Tolle blasphemous? In reality, New Thought teachings are certainly not...
View ArticleThe ego also rises
Retirement from recent personal project brings relief I’m not so blind I can’t see the ego rearing its ugly head regarding attempts to achieve a temporary goal that’s now fading fast (as it should be)....
View ArticleHard Right Christian fundamentalists: "Kill gays & lesbians; God hates fags &...
Let’s briefly examine Hard Right religious attitudes, looking at basic Bible teachings (bold type) along with related Hard Right behavior (italics)… God is love, but God hates gays and...
View ArticleStages of spiritual growth, spiritual development
NOTE: This unfinished post was originally published in my personal blog. The subject matter may be too controversial and off-topic to fit well into the personal blog & is perhaps more fitting for...
View ArticleTarget audience: Search for "truth" in religion and spirituality
The set of writings often abbreviated as "the Search"[1] is devoted to discerning religious or spiritual “truth”[2] from the rich and myriad history of world religions, traditions, and spiritual paths....
View ArticleA few more serious problems with literal Bible interpretation
(Updated Sun 20 Jan 2013) Please see the list below for a few more unfortunate examples which serve to reveal the complete inadequacy of literal (or near-literal) Bible interpretation. Introduction:...
View ArticleOpinion: Activism, relationships, and spiritual fitness
NOTE: This opinion piece is perhaps ill-fitting given the stated mission of the Search for Truth blog. If this is your first visit here, please be aware that this type of content is not fundamental —...
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