About The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Spirituality

The lion’s share of my spiritual growth came about because I was dragged into it kicking and screaming.

Sound familiar?

This was because I refused to believe that the answers to the questions about Life that Life goes out of its way to give us were unknowable. I utterly rejected the idea that it was pointless to try to understand the Big Mysteries.

I couldn’t let go. And I got answers.

I feel I have left the phase of my life where I was seeking, and have entered the portion of my life where I am finding.

The answers are there for all us, if we want them bad enough.

This is why I call what I have to offer “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to Spirituality.” I understand the struggle to seek without finding, and I understand how rewarding it is to find. It was a hard road for me, but the most important thing I have ever done.

Life is the greatest Koan there is. Once we have heard the riddle, we will not rest until it has surrendered to us its truth.

What I have to offer you are my answers. These may be your answers, and they may not.

In some ways, I’ve begrudgingly come to understandings about my relationship to my existence (you can read how this really began for me here), this really began for me but in the process I’ve learned things that may be of help to others walking this path.

About six years ago I began to feel compelled to share this. To tour the New Thought churches presenting guest sermons and afternoon workshops or seminars. To develop a framework to spread this message to any audience that would hear it.

I had a Mission.

I began to learn how to present myself. I fell into a circle of aspiring speakers. I found resources like How to Present Yourself like a Professional on a Pauper’s Budget to People Who Ought to Know Better and Making a Fortune on Dirt-Cheap Audio and Video Products.

After a time the idea began to feel prosaic, even faintly manipulative. I mean, shouldn’t I be healing the sick and raising the dead, or something?

Beyond that, there are so many phonies out in that “market” … and anyone with any sense knows it. Somehow I’d have to rise above all that, too.

I realized, if you take the time to look, there are so many people presenting this message in so many different ways, I would just be one more little drip in a perfect storm of voices.

But then I had a moment of wisdom: the *ploink* of this drip may be just the *ploink* that you need to hear.

So, gentle reader, at times here at The Meaning of Existence (and all that) I will offer you my wisdom, my experience, and my *ploink.*

Perhaps I have experienced what you are about to. Or, perhaps, you’ve experienced what I have long ago, and you might smile in recognition at my words.

I hope you enjoy this Curmudgeon’s Guide to Spirituality.

Click here to see the list of my *ploinks.*

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