Our words and actions are consequences of what we are about and from them flow the songs we silently sing in our hearts as we go about our day. How do you feel about the songs you are singing? What songs do you feel your family, school, community, and country, even your world, should be singing? This musing may help you decide.

What would a helper created for you be like? Certainly the creator of your body, mind, and spirit would have something to say about that. So would your family, friends and teachers. How comfortable are you with what you’re hearing? What would you have to know about encounters with that person to be sure? Hopefully, this musing will deepen your understanding.

Even though the person responsible for the excitement in this picture isn’t there, his expressed spirit certainly is, but where? Is it present in the ring or in its positioning on her finger? Is it somehow present in her mind and if so, how is the ring involved? This musing will focus on the important distinction between your embodied spirt and your expressed spirit.

The person whose life is celebrated at a funeral is never there. Some remains of their bodies often are even though their embodied spirits are no more. So what is being celebrated? What is determining its nature? Have you ever felt the presence of a loved one who has passed away? Even if you haven’t, some say they have and it’s worth pondering and discussing how physically that might be. This musing will give you a glimpse of what of your life—as it is lived now—will live on in the hereafter.

Even though all in this photo have passed away, something of their expressed spirits lives on and is radiating throughout the pictured web. This musing will help you recognize what that something is when it comes your way and why it is so important that it live on.

Although some of these designations of your vital concerns, basic desires, and guiding spirits may be new—especially this depiction of their relationships, the underlying concepts have played a central role in the choices you have been making throughout your life. Discussing this musing will acquaint you with their nature and timeless origin and relevance.

They’re not fighting. They’re not hugging. Let’s say they are arguing about something. Whatever it is, it’s not a laughing matter, at least not for now. Any clues in their expressions regarding its nature? What about its importance? Its urgency? This musing takes a first look into ways in which what is vitally important to us is signaled in the expression of our day-to-day concerns.

We know how to handle our personal affairs, but how do we reliably address the deep-seated concerns and concepts whose arrangement in the preceding the 32-piece Rubic puzzle you didn’t know you knew? This musing suggests that heeding the guiding spirits urged by our spiritual pathfinders in your daily affairs provides a way.

This baby was not taught how to physically grow or to vocally express its feelings yet capably does both. The mother probably was taught how to express her concern for lives other than her own, possibly by example and capably expresses that concern here. This musing focuses on our ability to recognize, express, and address our concern for our lives and that of others and the attitudes in which we do.

What expressions suggest the woman on the left has no interest in disclosures that counter her desires. What might suggest that the man is wondering if she will abide by her pledge to tell the truth? What in the demeanor of the woman in the middle suggests the importance of her abiding by her pledge? This musing will address the origins and role of the attitudes depicted in this photo and will aide you in weighing their pros and cons.

The positive expressions of the three spirits of worthiness are present this photo. The boy’s ranking spirit of worthiness is reflected in his respectful listening to the adult. The uniform and badges convey the worthiness we associate with participating in an appreciated group. The encompassing spirit comes through in the inherent worthiness they see in each other. In his Brief History of Humankind, Harari feels that “Sapiens rule the world” because they can “cooperate in extremely flexible ways.” There is downside when the rich rob the poor, the advantaged suppress the disadvantaged, and the powerful dominate the weak. The download will help in discussing the pros and cons of heeding our ranking, grouping, and encompassing spirits of worthiness.

The dominating, role-playing, and serving spirits by which we address our relational concerns are variously represented in this image. The pervading poverty conveys the lasting consequences of the egoistic dominating spirit that has governed too much of our political life. The altruistic role-playing spirit is seen in the natural relationships between the teacher and the children. This altruistic spirit of spectators so prevalent in competitive sports can quickly morph into a dominating spirit should a fight break out on the playing field. There is no competition here. Instead, the children are enthralled by an adult satisfying their need for entertainment. He enjoys their curiosities, his art, and his holistic serving spirit. A number of faces, contexts, and consequences of these three spirits are presented in the download.

Brokenness is an all too common fact of life. It can come in the tools we use, the places we live, and the climates we inhabit. Our bodies can hurt, those with whom we live and work can worry us, our leaders and institutions can let us down, even the world can go awry. Most brokenness, whether it be physical, mental, or relational, comes and goes but it can be experienced so deeply that we lose our joy in life. Regardless of its nature, there are basically three general attitudes by which we view the issue and that govern where we seek its resolution: faultfinding, help-seeking, and self-searching. The young man may be blaming others for his brokenness, contemplating to whom he might turn for help, or ascertaining his responsibility in the problem. Each of these attitudes is discussed and illustrated in the download.

Our embodied spirits come alive at birth and cease at death. While we live, their spirits radiate out into the world. Our expressed spirits are those aspects of our expressions that variously reside in the minds of others. A dated gravestone marks the moment that death finally cuts the umbilical cord by which our embodied spirits sow the seeds that sprout and give life to our expressed spirits. The questioned spirits we are likely to encounter when contemplating our death reflects the relative prevalence in our hearts of our egoistic desires for personal superiority, altruistic desires for social influence, and holistic desires for oneness with life. Reasons death is a depressing end for some and a joy in the future for others are developed in the download.

Although life on our Blue Planet is but a moment in the eternities of astrophysics, that moment encompasses our interest in life in the hereafter. We, as Homo sapiens, having been on earth for only two hundred thousand years or so, are newcomers to the plant and animal kingdoms on which our hereafter depends. We, as embodied spirits, which live only a few decades, have little interest in the hereafter. As expressed spirits, we live on in others and are inherently interested in the hereafter. The nature of that interest depends on the three governing desires that determine the guiding spirits by which we address our six general concerns: life, disclosure, worthiness, relationships, brokenness, and death. Some of the political and spiritual issues at play are developed in the download.

Throughout the ages we have tried to comprehend ourselves and the universe. The greater becomes our awareness of what we know, the greater grows our awareness of what lies beyond our grasp. All is coordinated from the many nuclear particles that make up our atoms—invisible because they are so small—to the galaxies in the heavens—invisible because they are so far. Somehow within this coordination we must live our lives. Some will see purpose or accident, free will or fate, and good luck or bad luck at work in their lives. When mindfully seeking oneness with life, we can expect to find ourselves in a creative and fortuitous coordination that can be difficult to explain. Here is one associated the publication of the courtship letters of my parents.