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- Herausgeber: Peter Mulraney
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
Sharing the Journey
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Sharing the Journey
Reflections of a Reluctant Mystic
Peter Mulraney
Copyright © 2014 Peter Mulraney
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review, without the written permission of the publisher.
Cover image: Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens, South Australia.
ISBN: 978-0-9924269-7-2
Created with Vellum
To those reluctant mystics who have dropped pebbles into the pond of my awareness.
Contents
Introduction
The journey
Start from where you are
A story
Who's driving your car?
Think or Sink
Give yourself the gift of silence
General manager of the universe
The secret to forgiveness
A broken heart is not the end of the story
It’s not about invulnerability
Weapons of choice
It’s not possible for you to be without Love
It’s not possible for you to be alone
Sex matters
Sex matters - another perspective
Christmas
Endings - good grief!
Deep self-honesty
Hell - hot or cold?
The power of words
Running on empty
Valentine's Day
Opinions - we all have them
Time travelling
Special roles
The Office of High King
The importance of context
Writing from the heart
Resilience
Birthdays
Doing those things she used to do for you
Time to rethink the war on drugs
No ordinary moments
Choosing horses
Crime and romance together
Going with the flow
Cooking gratitude
Wake up time
The lesson of unintended consequences
What are we teaching our kids?
Attachment
Letting go of the gun
Peace in the Middle East
Lies we've told
It’s not possible for you to harm anyone
Life purpose
Ripples or the power of one
Against your better judgement
You cannot offend God
The spiritual journey
A note from Peter
Other titles by Peter Mulraney
Introduction
A reluctant mystic knows there is an inner journey but needs a bit of encouragement to get started, and then some more to keep moving, along the path of inner exploration.
I count myself in that group.
I’ve known about the inner journey for a long time. I was a small boy when I first started sitting high up in the trees and silently contemplating the world. Life was a mystery to me but, at the same time, life had to be lived. There were games to play, teams to be part of, school work to complete and girls to fall in love with.
Like most of us on the planet, I got distracted from the journey by the dazzle of the world and all the things that had to be done: get an education, get a job, get married, buy a house and raise a family - make something of yourself.
Somewhere in my thirties, when I had the education, the job, the marriage and the kids, I encountered a dull, colourless and boring state of mind and started looking for answers, or maybe the questions came looking for me. You never can tell with the soul. You’re convinced you’re in control and making all the decisions, until you discover that you aren’t.
That was when I started looking for inspiration outside the boundaries of the traditional catholic world I had grown up in. There was something about the message that I was hearing on Sundays that no longer resonated, so I started looking elsewhere.
Today my library holds works by authors like Hans Kung, Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong, Richard Rohr, John O’Donohue, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wayne Dyer, Tara Bach, Cynthia Bourgeault, Paul Ferrini, Eckhardt Tolle, Deepak, Chopra and Osho, to mention a few of the minds that have informed my journey.
It was in those dull and colourless years that I discovered A Course in Miracles. If you haven’t worked your way through that book, let me warn you, it challenges all your beliefs.
Over the last ten years or so I’ve been a student of the Way of Mastery, which covers the same material as A Course in Miracles but is a lot more user friendly to the average pilgrim, like me. You can find out more about that at www.wayofmastery.com.
The other thing that’s had a huge impact on my journey is meditation. It takes a long time to remember that the voice of God is silence, and that in that silence you can hear the voice for God - your soul.
In these pages you’ll find my reflections on a journey we are all on, and some observations, influenced by my understanding of the workings of the universe, of the state of the world we live in.
Most of the material in this book first appeared as posts on my blog at www.petermulraney.org. The articles have been edited for this format.
This is not a book to read in one sitting or in any particular order.
If you haven’t read my blog, be warned. These reflections will challenge some of your cherished beliefs and ask you to move out of your mental comfort zone.
That’s why we’re all reluctant mystics at the start of the journey home - no-one likes moving out of their comfort zone, even when there is no other choice.
The journey
A few thoughts you might like to ponder about life, the universe and the journey you’re on. If you’re game.
Most of us are aware of the journey that starts with birth and ends with death. If you identify yourself with your body, death is the end of the road.
This is what we could refer to as the surface journey. The one you experience if you don’t ask questions like:
Who am I?What’s my purpose?Why was I born?What’s the meaning of life?Is there a God?Is there life after death?What if your journey doesn’t end when your body does? Maybe you believe you and your body are the same thing, and that you end when the body does. What if that’s not true?
What if your journey started with the Big Bang? You know, that cosmic thing the astronomers and physicists think birthed the universe. Puts age into a different frame [...]
