Andrew Cort's Blog, page 2

The Exodus

My great interest is in understanding the great stories of myth and scripture as symbolic allegories that teach us about our inner spiritual life. Various stories may (or may not) have been based on something that actually occurred, but the event has been taken by spiritual adepts and used to create a myth that teaches...
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REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Tweet Share   I’ve long understood that, while most of us arrive here with the task of self-evolution, there are higher-level souls who occasionally arrive as ‘Messengers’, souls who have already done the Work in past lives and are sent to accomplish great tasks and help the rest of us. They might be recognized by...
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Happy New Year 2016!

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS. LONG TERM SOCIAL GOAL: To be of use in efforts to bring about a peaceful world where people ‘see’ that all the different spiritual and cultural ways of life on Earth are meant to be shared, appreciated and revered, not used for hatred, fear or violence. This is why I write about...
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On Being a Whore

When we “love” someone to get something in return, (which is usually an unconscious demand that she/he love Me in return), we will sooner or later be disappointed and this “love” will transform into something very different, something very negative. This sort of ‘bartering for love’ is a form of whoredom (and there are male...
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On Being a Whore

When we “love” someone to get something in return, (which is usually an unconscious demand that she/he love Me in return), we will sooner or later be disappointed and this “love” will transform into something very different, something very negative. This sort of ‘bartering for love’ is a form of whoredom (and there are male...
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From a Lonely Insignificant Galactic Corner

So many wondrous, mind-and-heart-expanding, beautiful things to share with each other in this ever-shrinking world: stories, music, art, rituals, meditative teachings, physical skills, healing arts, philosophic ideas, even cuisine – so much more sensible and pleasurable than hating each other and fighting with each other. What is wrong with us? Why is it so important...
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From a Lonely Insignificant Galactic Corner

So many wondrous, mind-and-heart-expanding, beautiful things to share with each other in this ever-shrinking world: stories, music, art, rituals, meditative teachings, physical skills, healing arts, philosophic ideas, even cuisine – so much more sensible and pleasurable than hating each other and fighting with each other. What is wrong with us? Why is it so important...
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THE NATIVITY STORY: A SOMEWHAT MYSTICAL LOOK

Tweet Share In those days, a decree went forth from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a Census taken of all the world. Everyone was ordered to go to their own home towns to be registered. So Joseph and Mary journeyed to Bethlehem, the birthplace of David, for Joseph was the descendant of kings....
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THE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, PART 1: GABRIEL

Tweet Share   It began in the Temple. It began with a passionate prayer that opened the gates of heaven.   An elderly couple – the priest Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth, who both were “righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord” –were nonetheless barren, just as Abraham and...
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The Sophist Trap

If you come to the sophisticated realization that religion is full of much nonsense, don’t fall into the trap of the sophists. The Sophists were philosophic teachers who taught that there is no such thing as absolute truth, but only relative and subjective truths that hold for a given person at a given time. Like...
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