this blog is crap

“I think your blog is a bunch of crap,” my wife Irma said, after scanning through the five posts that immediately preceded this one. She had enjoyed my blog in the past.

“You have all these words, going on and on, and I get to the end and say ‘What’s the point?’ You need to cut to the chase.”

I understood what was prompting her outburst. My last few posts had been more wordy than normal, a bit more intellectual in approach and content, along with some styling changes and maybe a bit of writer’s showboating. I knew it; heck, in the middle of that group of five posts I wrote a short story “The Thinking Man’s Guru” just to make some fun of the very things she was complaining about.

“I do cut to the chase,” I replied. “If you go through my blog you’ll find there’s a variety: some posts are short, others are long, I have short stories and poetry. Mixed throughout are posts touching lightly on the point while others zero right in on it, and when I want to put something out there that’s even more to the point,

hyperglycemic spirituality

Spiritual advancement is stuck in hyper and hypoglycemic highs and lows, in a constant shift from euphoria to depression and all points in between - except, that is, the center.

In the world of controls and engineering this ‘overshoot and droop’ is recognized to be caused by bias and error. In controls design and programming, these are known, surmountable effects, yet we distort them in our spiritual language using outdated terms like sin and wrong, confronting bias and error from a perspective that completely negates the potential effects of simple engineering solutions.

Trapped within the consequences of inane platitudes, sugar-coated traditions and outgrown ideals, we worship the highs and lows of ‘finding’ fulfillment first here and then there. Our salvation lies within the plain language and application of universal principles, yet we stubbornly cling to the addictions of familiar terms and approaches - even though we know they don’t work.

Spiritual blogs can be particularly tormenting, especially the ones that