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All About Me, John Adcox | Entertainment & Cool Stuff | The Writer's Desk
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Jesus said:
"What is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed."
"Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
-- The Gospel of St. Thomas
Sacred Texts offers an online virtual library of texts and myth sources from a dizzying spectrum of cultures from all over the world. You’ll find sacred texts from the world’s major religions, ancient sagas and myths, poetry, occult references, and more. This is a truly wonderful resource—a veritable online Library of Alexandria—and a terrific place to begin your research or just to browse and read.
For more online sacred texts, try the following:
The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a
particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who
remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate
the words that transform his darkness into light. He does not even
anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light
instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when
he is "answered," it is not so much by a word that bursts into his
silence. It is by his silence itself, suddenly, inexplicably revealing
itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God.
-- Thomas Merton, Dialogues with Silence
I am very impressed by this page on romantic and imaginative theology, especially as it addresses C.S. Lewis and the romantic poets.
If you happen to share my fascination with the Holy Shroud of Turin, click here or here for some of the facts (they may surprise you) and latest research.
Faith.com is a Web site with a lot of extremely interesting material – original articles, book excerpts, interviews – on a huge number of religious traditions, as well as discussion boards where you can post your own messages and thoughts on a wide range of topics. The Faith.com web site also includes several gateways addressing specific religious traditions:
• www.christiangateway.com
• www.jewishgateway.com
• www.hindugateway.com
• www.awisdom.com (for Ancient Wisdom)
• www.modernpaths.com
• www.muslimgateway.com
• www.buddhistgateway.com
The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is an orgaization created to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and tofoster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
Religion listings by Galaxy on every virtually every topic related to world religion you can think of.
Academy of Religion (AAR) and its partner organization, the Society of Biblical Literature, are scholarly organizations that sponsor conferences and meetings exploring multiple world religions and spiritual traditions, as well as publications and other valuable resources.
Please see my Mythology page for more of the world's traditions of scared story.
"I would rather live in a world where my life is
surrounded by mystery than live in a world so
small that my mind could comprehend it."
-- Henry Emerson Fosdick,
American clergyman (1878-1969)
"In a culture where the printed word is just one among many
competing media; where the din of TV, commercial and talk
radio, the internet, video games and DVDs threaten to drown
out the quieter, deeper message of written material; in an
environment that could be described, with some accuracy,
as post-literate, reading is more than necessary. It is a radical
and subversive activity."
-- Jim Threlkeld
Paths: the Way of the Soul offers an amazing collection of references and a great place to start your exploration of religion and myth. Recommended!
Edge Foundation and its the World Question Center was established as an outgrowth of a group known as The Reality Club. Its informal membership includes of some of the most interesting minds in the world. The mandate of Edge Foundation is to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society.
Facts Encyclopedia offers a wealth of online philosophy resources, from Plato to Sex in the Bible.
Interested in the connections between spiritualism and psychology? Take a look at the writing of Carl Jung. Here's an excellent Jung Organization here in Atlanta. I've written two articles on mythic topics for their newsletter.
This site looks at the disagreements between Jung and Freud over questions of spirituality.
This is a fascinating page on English Literature and Religion with the usual lists of links.The centerpiece is a very large bibliographical database (more than 4,800 records) about religious aspects and backgrounds of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. There are also shorter bibliographies devoted to particular writers.
The Center for the Study of Great Ideas (how cool a name is that?) offers a syntopical approach to great books and practical philosophy.
Science and religion meet in Process Philosophy. Well, sort of. This is an excellent introduction to this complex and fascinating world view. That's a large part of my thinking, as are Gnosism and Religious Science, but for those who might be wondering, I am a commited and lifelong (so far!) member of the United Methodist Church.
Visit my Mythology and
Folklore Page for more!