Essays
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Kenosis: How We Willfully Determine Free Will Isn’t Free, and Choose That
Q: If there is no such thing as free will, then why do we make choices? (Posted in a Facebook group 06.25.23) A: I’ve always found it amusing that people… Read more.
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Consciousness, Embodiment, and the Divine Feminine — Pez King Blog #5
This is Truth. Consciousness –the boundless web of interrelationship connecting all things– is not something that you have, it is what you are. The conventional belief is that a sentient… Read more.
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Salvo: A Preemptive Strike Against Your Rejection — Pez King Blog #4
Let’s get this straight, world. I don’t write for you. I don’t write for myself, maybe not for anyone alive right now. We’re already dead. I write for our grandchildren,… Read more.
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The Peasant and the Queen? — Pez King Blog #3
I’ve been feeling self-conscious about the lack of gender balance in The Peasant and the King. In sharp contrast to Birding in the Face of Terror, which has several female characters playing prominent… Read more.
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Trying to Stop Trying — Pez King Blog #2
You cannot reach enlightenment by trying. But you also cannot reach it by ceasing to try. That just leaves you back where you started, and if you were satisfied with… Read more.
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Do We Live the Gospel? — Pez King Blog #1
During the silent worship portion of Quaker meeting today, a Friend ministered to the community by asking, “Do we live the Gospel?” and then sitting down, in that wonderfully open-ended,… Read more.
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Not One, Not Two
The part is not the whole…but it also isn’t *not* the thing of which it is a part. As Alan Watts is so often quoted in pantheist circles as saying,… Read more.
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Do Pantheists Have Souls (or does Soul have them)?
We are the timeless essence of Existence, expressing itself in time as you and me, him and her, this and that, giving each its own unique perspective of the Whole.… Read more.
