LAST NIGHT, I WENT into a Christian book and supply store to try to find a gift for a couple family members who are getting baptized tomorrow, and the Spirit within me began to grieve. Every item in there felt hollow, clichéd, fear-based, condescending, or arrogant, whether it was a trinket, a figurine, a wall …
Author: Lloyd Matthew Thompson
This portion of my multidimensional consciousness currently resides within a physical human body.
Five Fingers
The wakened lover speaks directly to the beloved, “You are the sky my spirit circles in, the love inside love, the resurrection-place. Let this window be your ear. I have lost consciousness many times with longing for your listening silence, and your life-quickening smile. You give attention to the smallest matters, my suspicious doubts, and …
Face to Face with Death
On this Dia de los Muertos—Day of the Dead—it is the perfect time to pull out and begin re-reading the beautiful and inspiring Tibetan Book of the Dead, something I’ve been wanting to do again for a while now anyway. The following is the opening chapter of my favorite translation by Gyurme Dorje, edited by …
The True Constant
When I was younger, and first learning I could feel the presence of the Earth, I would get SO annoyed and upset with concrete blocking the way and covering up so much of the ground everywhere I went. I became anti-cement nearly to an extreme anti-civilization frame of mind, until I grew a bit …
Insight Lights! Observation Camera! Action!
I have got to help make changes. I’ve watched and observed and contemplated and felt and cried over the pain and suffering in this world—needless pain and suffering—for long enough. My focus is seriously beginning to shift now toward more action-oriented questions. I am asking the Universe to begin showing ways to help The …
The Origin of Pieces
I find that these days, I am very interested in origins—not only the stories about what someone did, what they’re known for, but I want to know about HOW they got to what they are known for… what led them to make the decisions that led to the result? In part, I blame …
Upekka
As I suppose naturally happens in a numerological life number 1 year, I have been turned within as of late, processing and feeling into just who I have become now, where I see myself heading, and exactly what issues weigh foremost on my Heart. And I find equality is a major desire of my Heart. …
Acclimate
AS FRAIL AS IT is to be human, the resilience and adaptability possible absolutely astounds me. It seems contradictory, as easily as these bodies can be broken or sicken, but I fully believe that is where the key is revealed—there is a major difference between the body and the mind. The mind is what …
All I Need
I don’t know if it’s the Aries in me or the insatiable creative in me, but once the spark of something ignites, I want to go all out before I go out—and by that, I mean I first want to plot and plan and organize and design and… I’ll start from the beginning. Hand …