Last time we looked at practices for the body, which are also essential for emotional health and wellbeing. There’s a lot of overlap between these practices for obvious reasons: you feel your emotions via your body. So the more grounded you are, the more in touch you’ll be with your feelings and emotions. In this… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Emotions
Last time we looked at the importance of having an ethical foundation for your spiritual practice and some of the perils of living a moral life. In this post, we’ll explore some practices for the body, an area that’s often neglected in our busy daily lives but is essential for creating a fully grounded spiritual… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Body
In the previous post in this series we finished exploring the Collective Context of your life and how society hijacks the spiritual path and leads you astray. From this point on, we’ll get into some actual practices and work our way through the areas listed in the Overview post. And we start with an important… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Ethics
Last time we looked at the collective context of your life and how hard it can be to untangle the myths that shape your view of the world. The ultimate myth is the separate self, or ego, which underpins all the other others. Spiritual practice dissolves the ego, but the process often goes wrong or… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Mind War
Last time we looked at the personal dimension of the wider context of your life. But since no one is an island, you also need to explore how you fit in to the rest of society and the world-at-large. Collective Context covers the myths and concepts that shape your life whether you’re aware of them… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Collective Context
Last time we looked at an overview of my plan to renew my spiritual practice and the twelve areas it covers. The first area is Context, which is about exploring the wider perspective of your life. Another name for it could be Causes and Conditions. It’s divided into two sections: Personal and Collective, and in… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Personal Context
Last time we looked at some of the inspiration behind the plan to renew my commitment to spiritual practice. I’ve been examining each area of my life to see what needs to change and exploring practices that might help. In this post, we’ll delve into the details of the plan and how it works… Earlier… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Overview
Last time I introduced my shiny new plan to get my spiritual practice back on track and stop spinning my wheels. In this post we’ll look at some of the ideas that inspired my plan. I could have adopted one of these systems wholesale but I wanted to devise my own based on what I… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Inspiration
The Mystic Warrior Practice is a comprehensive plan to transform every area of my life. If you read my last rambling post, you’ll know I reacted badly to a shadow eruption that almost derailed my spiritual practice. Thankfully, I was able see through the ruse and I’m now in the process of sorting myself out… Continue reading Mystic Warrior Practice – Introduction
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it J.C. or Allah,… Continue reading Everybody Worships
Music plays an important role in my novel Addled because the heroine, Zoe Popper, learns so much about how to be present and in the moment from her musician boyfriend, Jonah and his band Dionysus Wept. She first hears Jonah sing in Chapter 5 and is transported, amazed by the way the individual band members… Continue reading Music opens a secret door in time to eternity
This is a beautiful passage from Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by Irish poet John O’Donohue on the importance of taking the time to slow down and smell the roses. Life can’t be swallowed in one big gulp… you must sip and savour… “Often we approach things with greed and urgency. We do not like to… Continue reading On the Journey of Life Be Everywhere You Are
Jessica Davidson 