by Maggy Whitehouse | May 4, 2020 | Spirit
The Cosmic Christ. Image from Toledo Cathedral. At times of crisis, the natural inclination is to want to be saved and that’s exactly the purpose that we give to the idea of a Messiah. If you remember as far back as the movie Armageddon, the space ship sent...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Apr 30, 2020 | Spirit
“The thing that got interrupted had no business continuing. This virus, this is a god; that is not overstating things, and the gods are in the house, and god is having god’s way as gods tend to do. Our obligation is to exercise a radical hospitality to this...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Feb 19, 2020 | Spirit
Heart, soul, self, ego, spirit; these are words we bandy around in the spiritual world and everyone has a different definition for each one. It does help to understand the levels within us, so here’s a handy guide as to what the Western Mystery Tradition that...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Feb 14, 2020 | Spirit
It’s Holy Week, so it’s as good a time as any for bringing up the matter of Judas. Loads of people nowadays ask whether he was as bad as he was painted or whether he’s a scapegoat for Judaism. There’s The Gospel of Judas and, most likely, Rev....
by Maggy Whitehouse | Jan 20, 2020 | Spirit
One of the magical things about studying Kabbalah is in learning how to read the Bible on four different levels. Literally, it’s a bit of a nightmare of slashing and burning and judgement but allegorically, metaphysically and mystically, the Bible is an extraordinary...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Nov 27, 2019 | Spirit
Picture of Gary from Wikipedia. [This blog was written on the day that chef Gary Rhodes died. Sir Jonathan Miller died later on the same day at the age of 84 and Sir Clive James at the age of 80. Two out of three isn’t bad…] Another much-loved celebrity...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Nov 19, 2019 | Spirit
Medieval painting of the Virgin Mary thumping the devil. The Prophets in the Bible are generally ignored nowadays. It’s probably because they are concerned with social, institutional, national, or corporate evil and our participation in it. And make no mistake,...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Nov 14, 2019 | Spirit
Picture by the Four Wheeled Legend. I got a bad review for a corporate comedy gig I did. And I mean a really bad, one-star review. Fair enough. These things happen. The lady was quite right in one thing she wrote: I did misjudge the audience — and to be fair to me, I...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Nov 6, 2019 | Spirit
Detail: Rubens and his wife Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower (Peter Paul Rubens) Let’s face it, God has had some very bad PR. Interpretations of the Holy Books haven’t helped. According to the Old Testament, God’s fond of mass genocide (Noah’s...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Nov 4, 2019 | Spirit
“People often asked Dr. [Carl] Jung, ‘Will we make it?’ referring to the cataclysm of our time. He always replied, “If enough people will do their inner work.” This soul work is the one thing that will pull us through any emergency” —Robert...
