You've been reading this weblog for awhile, you say, and it's left you wondering what advice I might be able or willing to give, if any, to those who aren't necessarily "serious seekers"—to those who don't have, or don't yet realize they have, the spiritual and...

I disagree with your claim that an experience of "God-forsakeness" or "divine abandonment" is something everyone must expect to encounter in following a spiritual path. It's rather like glossalalia: no doubt some people receive the gift of speaking in tongues, but the...

I'm very happy to report that I've just submitted the final manuscript of a new book to SUNY Press. Several years in the making, Splendor of the True: A Frithjof Schuon Reader is the most ambitious and comprehensive of my Schuonian titles to date. Here are a few lines...

There's a problem with your proposed dialogue, and it may be insurmountable. You think, for the various reasons you've sketched, that I'm wrong about the "transcendent unity of religions", and you wish to argue me out of my silliness. But I have no interest whatsoever...

What, you ask, do Christians say about ghosts and spirits? Obviously, there would be a variety of answers to this rather large question, depending on which Christians you talk to and what exactly you mean by "spirits". It seems there are at least three important...

How to "envisage the essential points of Christian doctrine" sub specie aeternitatis? It seems you're well on your way to doing that already. You adduce Eckhart, but one needn't look only to the works of an "alleged heretic"! The essential ideas—that the Logos...

I forget whether you've read my Advice to the Serious Seeker. If not, no matter. I mention it simply because what little I know on the subject of prayer, and feel confident enough about to discuss in a public forum like this, can be found in the fourth part of that...

When the Bible says we were created "in the image of God, male and female created He them" (Genesis 1:26), the implication is that the Divine is at once masculine and feminine, and that our participation in God (2 Peter 1:4) thus entails the realization of a perfect...

You'll perhaps be disappointed with my response, but I don't think the answer to your question is significantly different from the answer one would give to anyone who is struggling to rise above the demands, the aches, and the pains of the body or the ups-and-downs of...

Since posting some brief observations on the Gurdjieffian "Work" earlier this month, I have received quite a number of comments. Some have come from those who've actually practiced the methods of the Fourth Way and who are critical of me for slighting their "system"...