mysticism

Dust and Divinity: Mary Moody Emerson (Transcendentalism Part 2)

Oct 20, 2025

Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism, Wellness, World Religions

bible, Charles Chauncy, Emotion, Enthusiasm, God, Great Awakening, Mary Moody Emerson, mysticism, nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Reason, The Rapture, Transcendentalism

A teacher once recommended a spiritual practice to a student. She said, “When you wake up, before doing anything else, write down on separate pieces of paper these sentences: (1) I am but dust and ashes, and (2) I am a Child of God. For these truths are both true, and together they spell out…
X-Files and You

Aug 10, 2025

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, interconnectedness, mystical experience, mysticism, Oneness, parapsychology, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the paranormal, X Files

One of the longest-running science fiction series in network television history is The X-Files. It originally aired in the 1990s up till 2002 and saw revivals in 2016 and a further season in 2018. In the show, “X-Files” are unsolved cases involving mystical and paranormal phenomena collected by the FBI, but no one really takes…