Category Archives: Spiritual Quest

Above All Else

As we approached the coast of Oahu after hav­ing been gone for almost six months to the day, it felt good to be back home again. Hav­ing barely pen­e­trated the magic and the mys­tery of my being on this, my … Con­tinue read­ing

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A Very Different Kind of Sentinel

Hav­ing parted com­pany with Greg, on such a cheer­ful note, I wan­dered up top­side where I was accosted by the voices of my fac­ul­ties, from some­where across the void, as I sat down at my usual perch, feel­ing a bit … Con­tinue read­ing

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Too Nascent to Grasp Yet

If you’d been taken on a vision quest, around the time of your com­ing to sex­ual matu­rity,“ pro­claimed my men­tor, “you’d have been spared much of the anguish you are now suf­fer­ing.“ “What is this vision quest of which you … Con­tinue read­ing

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To Love the Beast Within You

What does the man in black mean?“ I asked my men­tor. “It is dif­fi­cult to say, my son,“ he replied, “with­out going back to the begin­ning of the encounter, and work­ing our way through this seem­ingly incom­pre­hen­si­ble maze of sym­bols. … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Second Coming

Only after I had got­ten back in touch with what I truly felt, did I encounter this won­der­ful amal­gam of the men­tal and phys­i­cal aspects of my being. So I was not too sur­prised when, at mass the fol­low­ing morn­ing, … Con­tinue read­ing

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A Very Chilling Experience

With that, did I step into my next adven­ture in the twi­light zone, a quiet lit­tle bar with a few small tables at which sat a lone sailor or two with their drinks at hand. What really drew my atten­tion … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Final Awakening

As I won­dered why I’d been so afraid to see the truth of my being, I real­ized that I actu­ally feared the death of mil­lions of years of evo­lu­tion—the final awak­en­ing of the body from the Big Sleep. After such … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Sound of Sheer Silence

That night I dreamt I finally stum­bled on what I had been look­ing for, of late. Washed ashore along the coast of some islet in the south­ern Pacific, I aban­doned ship, lest she founder when the treach­er­ous tides, that’d marooned … Con­tinue read­ing

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Wisdom

Only, I do not know the man God has intended me to become,“ I insisted. “Nor did the Bud­dha or Christ,“ responded my men­tor. “It took Christ thirty years to come to a fuller under­stand­ing of Who He Really Is. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Enlightenment

That week­end as I sat up top­side at my usual perch mulling over the events of the last few days, I turned my atten­tion to the cloud hang­ing over my head. Look­ing up at the only dark cloud in the … Con­tinue read­ing

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