The Myth of Mental Health: The Necessity of Mental Isometrics
Mystical Narcissism: The Law of Attraction Meets the Law of Opposites
The Role of Humor in Soul-making: Poking Fun at the Ego
The Green Knight As Trickster: Death and Sex as Ways of Making Soul
The Loss of Jason as Seen in the Greek Hymn of Demeter and PersephoneThe World is Neither Fair Nor Unfair: Dedicated to Jason Michael BogarWize Wurds from Saint Exuperous of the Bloated Isles of Printdome
Do You Suffer from A.S.S., or Alvy Singer Syndrome? Stop Waiting!Interest is More Important Than Hope
The Blessing of Anxiety
Is Islam the American Problem, or Are Our Politicians the Problem?
The Book of Job: Banishment from the Common Place, or Purposeful Insanity
Religion and Advertising: Is The Virgin Birth Literal?
Religion, Politics and Modern Day Demon Possession
Politics and the Role of the EgoThe Book of Job: An Approach to MadnessGuest Blog: Teresa Lutrell on Losing Her Son and The Dark Night
The Blessing of Low Self Esteem: "I'm Not Good Enough"
All Relationships Are for Making Your Unique Soul
Using Your Arts and Talents to Make Your Unique Soul
Soul-making Through Pictures
Addictions and Humor: Complete Your Story or Die
Transcendence or Transformation: Eastern Philosophy Compared to Soul-making
Peace Through Conflict
Tantric Sex and Soul-making
The Myth of 'Free Will': Prove Me Wrong!
Yes, I Am Separated from God
From Interfaith to Exit Faith
Be An Informed Dogmatist: Ideas, Ideals and Ideologies
Swine Flu, Chicken Little and the End of My World
How is the Imaginal Realm Different Than Human Imagination?
God is One, and Two, and More
Ten Hard Questions for Soul-making (No Correct Answers)
Where Do Mistakes Come From?
The Tragic Loss of Soul in AmericaThe Terror and Joy of Finding God in the Dark
Finding God By Losing Your Ass
Freedom of Debate is not the Central Tenet of American Democracy.
A Brief and Shocking Study of Satan in the Bible
Who, What, Why is Satan?
Soul-making as Aim of Life and Evidence of Immortality
Mirror Christianity: What is the Purpose of the Bible?
Is It True That 'Pain is Mandatory, Suffering is Optional'?
Soul-making As Spiritual Isometrics
Death is Not a Part of Life
Most Evangelicals are Secular Rationalists
Churches as Gymnasiums, Not Hospitals
The Necessity of 'En-Darkenment' for Becoming Human
The Necessity of Judgment and Confusion in Soul-making
Soul's Are Made by Love and Death: Guest Lecture
Ravished By God: John Donne's Antidote to the Book of Job
What is Sanity? Am I Sane?
Happy New Year! I Think I'll Kill My 'self'
The Soul of Video Images: Why We Love Films
Poem by David Whyte: Self Portrait
Soul-making and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Seek En-Humanment, Not Enlightenment
A Time for Impatience: Don't Wait!
Should We Critique Religions?Obama or McCain: Who Does God Favor?So, How Are You Doing Michael?
Eckhardt Tolle's A New Earth: Is the Ego Really Dysfunctional and False?
Soul-making and the Death of My Son
PERSONAL GROWTH & SPIRITUALITY
Four Types of Mystics: Yes, Mystics Can Be Very Egoistic
Pray For My Damn Enemies? I Don't Think So!
Praying to an Empty Chair: Don't Confuse Imaginal with Imaginary
Why Do We Suffer Pain?
Change: The Necessity of Losing Your Head
I Feel Great, Until I Wake Up!
Learning to Accept God's Discord
True Understanding Means to Stand Under: Surrendering Ego
Did My Parents Screw Me Up, or is this Soulmaking?Moving from 'Illusionization' to RealizationTurning Doubt Into Faith
Making Dysfunctional Functional
Demotion Before Promotion: Finding Spirit When Ankle Deep in CrapThe Gift of Addiction
The Four Stages of Spiritual GrowthThe Many Voices in My HeadAddiction is Not A 'Disorder'Change Your Story: The Fluid Jewish GodWe Can't Fight Ego and Oppose WarLiving As Victims or From Destiny? Are You Stuck in the Past?Does the Resurrection Story Guarantee Happily Ever After?Divine Resentment: Soul-making Through Purposeful BitternessAmerica's Love Affair With Self ImprovementDo All Negative Feelings Arise from Being 'Out of Alignment'?When My Life Comes Apart At The SeamsWhen Healing Becomes a DiseaseIn Defense of All Human EmotionsThe Myth of Becoming WholeI Am A Spiritual HumanistThis God Thing...Beyond Opposites, to the CenterTHE SECRET: An Evaluation of the MovieTHE SECRET: An Evaluation, Part TwoIs It Time to Get Rid of the Term, Metaphysics?Secret Codes and Hidden MessagesModern Spirituality: Feast or Famine?
SOUL MAKING EXPLORED
From the Rack to Prozac
Your Imagination Does Not Belong to You
What is Soul-making?
Soul-making and the Death of My Son
What is Imagination?
How to Read Through the Eyes of Soul
The Organ of Soul PerceptionDid My Parents Screw Me Up, or is this Soulmaking?What is the Purpose for Humans Being Here?Soul-making Is Not Learned from Text BooksThere Was No 'Art' in EgyptBeing in the Soil of ImaginationRe-Enchanting The UniverseA Parable: The Relationship of Religion to SoulThe Necessity of War As Well As Peace for Soul-makingSOUL-MAKING AND THE DEATH OF A CHILDBiography as Soul-making: Charles Schulz's Life Story
SOUL MAKING AND SUFFERING
Accepting God's Discord
The Function of Dysfunction
New Thought and Suffering: Part INew Thought and Suffering: Part IINew Thought and Suffering: Part III - Positive Thinking and PainWhy Do We Suffer Pain?SOUL-MAKING AND THE DEATH OF A CHILDDo We Really Need to Reconcile God With Pain?The Necessity of War As Well As Peace for Soul-makingWe Can't Fight Ego and Oppose War
Death, Loss, Humility and Soul-making: Oscar Wilde
INTERVIEWS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE
Interviews Beyond the Grave: Jesus and Jim Morrison
Interviews Beyond the Grave: Kurt Cobain and Norman Vincent Peale
DREAMS AND DREAMING
What is the Purpose of Dreams?I Suffer from M.P.D: Multiple Personalities Dreams
THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION
Democratic Evangelicals - Guest ArticleEmergent Christianity: An Alternative to FundamentalismHow Can We Know God Without a Bible?Christians Use the Bible IncorrectlyDoes the Resurrection Story Guarantee Happily Ever After?The Mind of the Bible BelieverWhat Is Christmas?Are Christianity and Jung Compatible?My Experience of ChristianityWhat is the 'Born Again' Experience?What Did Jesus Mean by 'The Gospel'? Seven Types of Pseudo-ChristiansIs Jesus the Only Way?Would Jesus Be a Republican or a Democrat?Time to Raze Hell!!!Did God Have to Slaughter His Son for Our Sins?When Jesus Meets the Easter BunnyThe Iceberg of DogmatismThe Insidious Nature of Monotheism
PROSPERITY
How to Create an Effective Affirmation.Prosperity in a World of Suffering.Goddess Euthenia: A Prayer for Prosperity
REALLY GOOD QUOTES AND BRIEF COMMENTARYReally Good Quotes and Brief Commentary
QUESTIONS FROM A LITERALIST CHRISTIAN
How Can We Know God Without a Literal Bible?What Do You Do With Jesus' Death for Our Sins?How Does a Person Get 'Right' With God?Is Jesus the ONLY Way, the Truth and the Life?Why Do You Pick and Choose from the Bible?Can a 'Cultist' Have the Holy Spirit?Won't Following the Spirit Without a Bible Lead to Problems?How Can We Know God Without a Bible?How Can You Know Right From Wrong Without a Bible?Show Me a Verse to Prove It!Why Do Some People Need the Bible?Can the Holy Spirit Dwell in Unbelievers?
THE BIBLE
The Mind of the Bible BelieverThe Bible: A Third OptionHow to Read the Bible InternallySex and The BibleThe Bible Tells You Not To Rely on the Bible
MEN'S ISSUES
Something Only the Masculine Can UnderstandAre Men Out of Touch With Their Feelings?Are Men Violent By Nature?The God of War as a Soul-making Metaphor
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Freedom of Debate is not the Central Tenet of American Democracy.
Is The Media the New Universal Church?
What Do Violence, the Super Bowl and Benazir Bhutto Have in Common?
The 'Self Made Man' Did Not Begin With Barack Obama
Hijacking Science: Is Darwinian Evolution Science? (guest editorial)Is America Uniquely Violent and Selfish?Review of Charles Schulz's Controversial Biography: Soul-making as BiographyThe Modern Error of NeutralityParis Hilton and Soul-makingGlobal Warming: Who is to Blame? Guest ArticleART: Therapy or Entertainment?American Idols are Second Hand ImagesPatriotism is Un-Chic - Oh WellWhen Genius and Culture Clash: Death of Kurt Vonnegut
WORLD RELIGIONS
Should We Boycott Muslim Holiday Postage Stamp?Gay, Liberal Author Defends Bush Regarding Islam!A Parable: The Relationship of Religion to SoulThe Insidious Nature of MonotheismSEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY
Sex and The BibleFOR JASON MICHAEL CHARLES BOGAR (2/19/83-7/13/08)
Poem: Something New
Poem:Yesterday
Something Only The Masculine Can Understand
Poem For Jason, Who Loved the Flag
Poem: There is No Cellar, There is No Door
Soul-making and the Death of My Son
Two Kinds of Suicide: Physical and PsychologicalThe Relationship of Depth Psychology to New Age SpiritualityOccupy Wall Street and Soul-making