A few years ago I sought out a fairly well-known book in the field of spirituality, The Celestine Prophecy. It's the story of an unemployed teacher who travels to Peru to research ancient scrolls that reveal ways to look at and walk through life that produce greater harmony. The Celestine Prophecy being a novel (which…
Tag: Philosophy
What If God Was One of Us?
I recently re-watched Stranger Than Fiction, starring Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson. While I'm a fan of Will Ferrell's comedies (I love Elf: Smiling's my favorite; and Old School: Frank the Tank, anyone?), I found Stranger Than Fiction to be my favorite of Ferrell's films. Not only because Ferrell broke out of the physical comedy…
Buddy Christ
Have you ever looked at a situation as somebody else and come to completely opposite conclusions than you otherwise would? That's how hiphopguy23 felt watching Jesus Camp this past weekend. [See the trailer] Jesus Camp is a documentary that takes the viewer to the misnomered Devil's Falls in North Dakota to spend a summer with…
Waiting for God
I'm a big fan of Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations With God books — not solely due to their content, which to a better trained eye may be unremarkable, but because these books initiated me into the realm of philosophical texts. If everyone is fortunate enough to have an eye-opening experience that teaches them there are…