<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155599196766695956</id><updated>2024-10-05T04:20:55.078+02:00</updated><category term="God"/><category term="Religion"/><category term="Talking at the Ceiling"/><category term="Theosophical Anthropology"/><category term="Buddhism"/><category term="Christianity"/><category term="Creationism"/><category term="Evolution"/><title type='text'>Talking At The Ceiling</title><subtitle type='html'>A Human Sciences approach to searching for God.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5155599196766695956/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Zill</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17213307223782826476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwORXlE3j9ebhrP7Ab5RJ1N9LEccQwH7n1hpfq8kBSis6prvEh0SorxqQBOGf2mNK9cyeuLgPIoDQpCXfw-8JWj_vXSICRxXRc27971gNF1ULdMoRFkFM_BnkloaAifQ/s220/Zill.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155599196766695956.post-459062818173679271</id><published>2011-09-09T08:11:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T06:43:25.713+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Buddhism"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="God"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Religion"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Talking at the Ceiling"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Theosophical Anthropology"/><title type='text'>Betting on the Buddha</title><summary type="text">When I was 12 years old I had what would prove to be the single most important experience in my quest for God. I took a book out of the library called: “Religions of the World”: I can still remember the cover like this all happened yesterday. I took it home and began to wade through it till I came across the chapter on Buddhism. The stories struck a nerve, and not a good one. Being a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/feeds/459062818173679271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/2011/09/betting-on-buddha.html#comment-form' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5155599196766695956/posts/default/459062818173679271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5155599196766695956/posts/default/459062818173679271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/2011/09/betting-on-buddha.html' title='Betting on the Buddha'/><author><name>Zill</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17213307223782826476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwORXlE3j9ebhrP7Ab5RJ1N9LEccQwH7n1hpfq8kBSis6prvEh0SorxqQBOGf2mNK9cyeuLgPIoDQpCXfw-8JWj_vXSICRxXRc27971gNF1ULdMoRFkFM_BnkloaAifQ/s220/Zill.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKsu1GnaHtiV-mkGUbfVx1pqMw_ykHxshM5odv0VpHcjonaxUa886L2wipV-UDNICw28We5xvjD-QjaJ3do4ucSb2gRNZa84TudivYXR2lq2R_DyPo0h3475TEXRb3nlOQBkJR3to1E8/s72-c/%2521Home-Ayurveda-Correspondance-Course-Logo-Guanyin-mandala-D9a.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155599196766695956.post-8873231534689741379</id><published>2011-07-04T10:50:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T06:52:35.011+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="God"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Religion"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Talking at the Ceiling"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Theosophical Anthropology"/><title type='text'>Theosophical Anthropology: The Distance to Here</title><summary type="text">To start off with, perhaps I should explain my approach here, considering I have already been slated for “going straight to hell!!!” (Yes: that actually happened after the last blog on evolution. Fundamentalism: it breeds, first and foremost, no sense of humour.)

My personal philosophy, and feel free to disagree here, is this:

If God is an entity with a personality, and we all interact with </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/feeds/8873231534689741379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/2011/07/theosophical-anthropology-distance-to.html#comment-form' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5155599196766695956/posts/default/8873231534689741379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5155599196766695956/posts/default/8873231534689741379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/2011/07/theosophical-anthropology-distance-to.html' title='Theosophical Anthropology: The Distance to Here'/><author><name>Zill</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17213307223782826476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwORXlE3j9ebhrP7Ab5RJ1N9LEccQwH7n1hpfq8kBSis6prvEh0SorxqQBOGf2mNK9cyeuLgPIoDQpCXfw-8JWj_vXSICRxXRc27971gNF1ULdMoRFkFM_BnkloaAifQ/s220/Zill.jpg'/></author><thr:total>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155599196766695956.post-4211348219840300241</id><published>2011-06-14T19:54:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T06:47:09.358+02:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Christianity"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Creationism"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Evolution"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="God"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Religion"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Talking at the Ceiling"/><title type='text'>Evolutionary Christianity</title><summary type="text">Last night I was listening to Talk Radio, and someone texted in to ask the DJ: 

“Can you still be a Christian and believe in Evolution?”

The DJ answered quickly with a matter of fact: “No” and moved on to the next topic. For reasons that will become clear in the course of this blog, and future ones, this irritated the hell out of me! As I started dialling in to address this guy, he ended his </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/feeds/4211348219840300241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/2011/06/evolutionary-christianity.html#comment-form' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5155599196766695956/posts/default/4211348219840300241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5155599196766695956/posts/default/4211348219840300241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://talkingattheceiling.blogspot.com/2011/06/evolutionary-christianity.html' title='Evolutionary Christianity'/><author><name>Zill</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17213307223782826476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='17' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwORXlE3j9ebhrP7Ab5RJ1N9LEccQwH7n1hpfq8kBSis6prvEh0SorxqQBOGf2mNK9cyeuLgPIoDQpCXfw-8JWj_vXSICRxXRc27971gNF1ULdMoRFkFM_BnkloaAifQ/s220/Zill.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry></feed>