A Startling Comment A Monk Once Made...
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Skye McColman
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Silence reveals more than words ever can.
In their emails they would lavish compliments on my book, gushing about how wonderful my book was, including descriptive information about the book (to make it seem like they had actually read it). But only AI had don the actual "reading."
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I am sure that most people who write about spirituality do not set out to come across as performatively safe—or stuck in a narrow playground of appropriate, acceptable, “nice” writing.
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Substack can help writers who want to write enough edgy content to keep from getting spiritually “clogged up,” while continuing to generate writing aimed at being inspirational rather than in-your face.
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"But if we are not vigilant, we can easily drift from “honoring our values” to “avoiding difficult topics” — which sooner or later leads to spiritually constipated writing." https://lttr.ai/Armts
"Religious and spiritual differences are not “out there” — they are in our heads, based on our values, life experiences, social relationships, psychological and physical health, relationship to power and privilege, etc." https://lttr.ai/ArQ1R
The mystical life calls us to be non-attached to self, and non-attached to God.
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"The mystical life does not make us into something different from what we were previously; rather, it calls us to recognize and realize our truest, most authentic, most deeply real self — who we always have been, deep down inside." https://lttr.ai/AqlC2
Shortly after my latest book was published, I started getting emails from people who claimed to be marketing professionals and/or directors of book clubs. It was a carefully designed scam.
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In case you missed it: my review of Mark S. Massa's important book on "Catholic Fundamentalism in America"
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