The CAVE

01/16/2023

04/03/2021

03/07/2021

"The Breeze Upon My Face"
By Paul Siddall

Breeze, breeze, someday I will become you.

Breeze, breeze, no...I think I am you!

Breeze, I am the invisibility of you filling up all my empty spaces.

Breeze, I am nothing but air in the wind, ready to exit the body, when it turns to a co**se.

Breeze, I breathe you in and breathe you out.
Oh Breeze, breeze, I truly feel You in and out.

Breeze, breeze, we ALL breathe you in and we ALL breathe You out.

Young, old, of all colors, differnces and all, Oh breeze, not You, could any live without.

Breeze, all who have ever lived, and all who ever died, also breathed You in the wind!

Breeze, breeze the very air I breathe, others inhale in.

Breeze breeze, you are us, and we are you.

Breeze, breeze,
You are air,
You are wind,
You are oxygen,
You are the breath I breathe,
You are Spirit,
You are eternal,

Therefore, You are life,

... and I am THAT .

~ ♡ Paul Siddall 3/06/21

03/03/2021

GOD is Love!

But you have to do more than simply hear or read it. You must experience it through the breath.

Are you anxious, or going through interpersonal relationship problems?

There is nothing that 'feeling' the support of those words, "God is Love" won't solve.

But to experience it you have to fully take it in.

Open your heart, surrender, and 'welcome' GOD in your first deep inhalation.

That's it, just breathe in "G O D" ...
just once, try it, I implore you.

And release the inhalation out slowly with ...'IS' LOVE ".

Once isn't enough, that was just practice.

Welcome God's manifested presence by inhaling so deeply you get to the diaphragm.

Inhale: "God"
Exhale: "Is love."

Knowing that, is the solution to every conflict, every messed up theology, and for all the shame or guilt in suffering humanity.

"The words I speak unto are Breath and Life. "

There it is: the PNEUMA, Spirit, Breath is always involved to experientially infuse us with the truth.

The word is to be lived and breathed.

You wanna feel high?

Go ahead, take three more tokes of this:

GOD is LOVE!

Go ahead 3x's

Inhale: God.
Exhale: is love.

12/01/2020

The motivation of compassion is not to convert someone but to elevate some suffering in an ailing human soul. One of the greatest sufferings of the human soul is when religion teaches God is out to punish them.

All three of these religions (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) have these three in common:

They believe God is their CREATOR.
They believe God is PROVIDER.
They believe God is also their PUNISHER!

The Eastern view agrees with the first two, God is CREATOR, and PROVIDER; but quickly responds with, "Wouldn't it be oxymoronic to say a God who would lovingly create and provide could also angrily punish ?"

My answer to the East is... I agree, it would be inconsistent and an oxymoron to see The Lamb of God who took AWAY the SINS of the WORLD as a PUNISHER.

Remember, this infamous quote?, "You aren't punished for your sins, but by them."

I remember my Bible College professor one time saying this erroneous comment: " With hell to threaten us and heaven to beckon us we'll all somehow make it!"

Oddly, the New Testament doesn't say give up slavery, (which is mystifying) however, it does tell Masters to STOP THREATENING!

Ephesians 6:9, NASB: "And masters, do the same things to them, and give up 'threatening', knowing that both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him."

Threatening is never an antidote for EMPOWERING people on the spiritual path. Compassion is, and it starts with self-compassion.

The spiritual path is when you get through the sacred 'trees' of theology so you can know God in more of sacred 'forest' kinda of way.

It is knowing God, in what a One author on centered prayer called, The CLOUD of UNKNOWING.

And that often means,

"Letting go of your need to know, so that you 'can' really KNOW!"

02/16/2020

The man who thinks himself suddenly 'out' of Christ by something he has 'done' must of implicitly thought he somehow got into Christ by something he has 'done'!

01/19/2020

The flow doesn't slow. You merge when you submerge. Become like the River not the debris floating around in it. Old tires and empty milk jugs floating around aren't you. If the river cannot push it away; it will find a way around it ...

11/29/2019

Terry Trash - he keeps showing up at The Cave on Sunday mornings. 2 out of the last 3 Services he could'nt keep a dry eye. Especially when I shared on the meaning surrounding "The Wounds of Christ". His feet and hands were pierced for what your hands have handled and for where your feet have walked. His side pierced, reaching the heart, where blood and water flowed, both announcing not only purging but a purifying as well. His head wounded for every thought, every torment of the dualistic mindset. "That I may know him...in the fellowship of his sufferings." I led them in a meditative lesson where you take a deep breath and as you exhale slowly follow it down and sink into the sufferings of Christ. "Fellowship" means to participate or share with not just anyone. It is to share in the common ground of someone who knows what pain you are going through because they have gone through the same thing. You know what you share with Christ? You have both been crucified! He hung there on the cross without a loin cloth, naked, and exposed before the world. Like him, you have had your Judas. You have had your Peter(s) - those who denied you when you needed them the most. Like Christ, many of our wounds, may have even come from religious people! When we take our woundedness into the wounds of Christ, our wounds get healed. We become one in his wounds... and... "By His wounds we are (were) healed"! As we surrender into the woundedness of our humanity we share in the woundedness of His humanity. But he doesn't leave us there, we know him also in the "The power of His resurrection...being made conformable to His death!" Only through the door of our death to ego do we exit the tomb of our woundedness. We come out into the glorious resurrection of the awakening of the inner man - and call off the vendetta we had against ourselves, and the whole world.

11/14/2019

"The most wonderful thing you can realize, is that what You really are is beyond thought. So any thought you could have about what you might be or become is all an illusion. What you really are is the Divine Self -- that is All and in All right now. As that vibrates throughout your being you will realize that there can be no god in the equation. Duality is the only enemy that traps you in passing time. The god that we have always had in our mind has never been real. It is the god of this world and the father of lies. Your real Father is the Divine Self of your eternal being."
Michael Nevins 2018

11/06/2019

"Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved."

He had to move in even closer than the sound of mere words. Even the words masterfully spoken from the lips of Christ himself seemed insufficient; for there was another sound John's own heart longed to hear.

It was the sound of the heartbeats of Christ he wanted to listen to. Once heard, they would sink down into the corridors of his soul and remain indelibly embedded there. Each beat seemed to percolate within him an awareness defining him for the rest of his life. He would now describe himself as " the disciple, whom Jesus loved. " He was assured of it, not because he heard it from the lips, but from the very heart of Christ himself.

Though the words, "I love you", were not directly spoken; they were 'felt' as his head rested, safely, listening to the heart of affirming love for all humanity.

What is contemplative prayer? It is when the words of Christ point to the heart of Christ. It is when we imagine ourselves as a character in the Gospels! We close our eyes, and see ourselves, like John, sliding our head on the bosom of Christ, and listening for the pound of those heartbeats. It's not talking, it's not inquiring; it is simply listening for those heartbeats, until you feel yours harmoniously beating with his. ~ ps

10/30/2019

'I laugh when I think how I once sought paradise as a realm outside of the world of birth. It is right in the world of birth and death that the miraculous truth is revealed. But this is not the laughter of someone who suddenly acquires a great fortune; neither is it the laughter of someone who has won a victory. It is rather, the laughter of one who; after painfully having searched for something for a long time, finds it one morning in the pocket of his coat.' ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

10/21/2019

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/emmahiggs/2016/04/a-thoroughly-biblical-argument-against-penal-substitutionary-atonement/

A common criticism of people like me who openly oppose Penal Substitutionary Atonement theory is that we are picking and choosing the bits of the Bible we like, whilst ignoring some of the trickier bits. I intend now to try and make it super clear that this is not what we are doing. Invisible Goggle...