Here is Out of the Silence by James Rhoades. - published in honor of Winifred Wylie, FTS, who provided the copy.

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Published in The Quest magazine of Summer, 1990 was an article by Dr. Larry Dossey, M.D. on the healing power of prayer. Being excerpts from his book Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Search, it began with these words:

"Prayer has long been held by most religious traditions to contain potent healing power and has a long and honored history as a form of intervention in illness. Yet it has never been recognized in orthodox…

A message to pass on...

We heard recently from someone who returned from India. Her group met with the Dalai Lama for several days. The meetings focused on dialoguing what they believed were the 5 most important questions to be considered moving into the new millennium. The group was asked to come up with five questions before meeting with the Dalai Lama.

They asked:

1. How do we address the widening gap between rich and poor?
2. How do we protect…

OUR HOME IN SPACE

"Relative to Earth, the Sun is a gigantic thermal power plant; relative to the Milky Way it is a tiny luminous point of medium brightness that would be hard to find in the outer arms of the spiral.  And this point of light is circled by a blue speck, a million times smaller, on which a very strange species roams of late, regarding itself as very big and important."

- Gerard Staghun, US Physicist

There are three truths which are absolute and cannot be lost, but yet may remain silent for lack of speech.

The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendor have no limit.

The principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and eternally beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but is perceived by the man who desires perception.

Each man is his…

by Bill Moyers

On Wednesday, December 1, 2004, the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School presented its fourth annual Global Environment Citizen Award to Bill Moyers. In presenting the award, Meryl Streep, a member of the Center board, said, "Through resourceful, intrepid reportage and perceptive voices from the forward edge of the debate, Moyers has examined an environment under siege with the aim of engaging citizens." Here is the text of…

Copied from 9/11 And The Sport of God, Bill Moyers, September 09, 2005. This article is adapted from Bill Moyers’ address this week at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where Judith and Bill Moyers received the seminary’s highest award, the Union Medal, for their contributions to faith and reason in America. Bill Moyers is a broadcast journalist and former host the PBS program NOW With Bill Moyers. Moyers also serves as president of the Schumann…

Tides in the ocean of stars and the infinite rhythm of space;
Cycles on cycles of aeons adrone on an infinite beach;
Pause and recession and flow, and each atom of dust in its place
In the pulse of eternal becoming; no error, no breach
But the calm and the sweep and the swing of the leisurely measureless roll
Of the absolute cause, the unthwarted effect -- and no haste,
And no discord, and nothing…

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet

"I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." John 16:12

This page contains what I think will be helpful to other spiritual seekers - people who are pursuing, or who want to begin, a life of discipleship.  All the material I present will concern understanding and living the life of the disciple.  My…