: About Me

After leaving behind a Christian Fundamentalist background, I began my mystical journey in 1973, participating in various spiritual schools and learning from certain spiritual teachers, undergoing training and inner unfoldment. I have also researched and explored numerous spiritual traditions, ancient and modern, expanding my horizons further.

I have served as a Gnostic priest in the Christian Mystical Tradition since my ordination in 1988. As Instructional Director of the Holy Light Ministry, founded in 1998, I operated a very successful online correspondence program called "The Path of the Holy Light," geared for aspirants who sought the Illumination and wished to gain an understanding of further spiritual initiations. This operation ran its course and became inactive as my direction led me to pursue other spiritual ventures.

Over the years since 1973, I have studied the world religions, with a special interest in Eastern philosophies (particularly Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Sufism), and traditions such as the Cabbala, the Tarot, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Christian Mysticism, Gnosticism, Shamanism, and Spiritual Healing, to name a few. I have been writing treatises, lessons, and articles on metaphysics, spirituality, and mysticism over thirty years now.

You can find my further writings at:
http://www.bamblebrush.com/online_books/matthewmartin/matthewmartin.asp

More essays can be found at:
http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mathew_Martin

My passion is ...

Tuning into the Spirit through Nature and the Universe.

I know too much about ...

Nothing at all, which is the secret to knowing Everything.

My parents always told me ...

The Man in the Moon will frown at you if you don't eat your vegetables. (I was about 6)

My childhood ambition ...

To become a writer - that and ride my bike real fast down the steepest hills!

My favorite memory ...

In 1984, the day my son was born - especially when he opened his eyes and looked up at me!

Why I write ...

Its a wonderful way to express your soul, especially if another is inspired by what you say.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Anything science fiction and everything spiritual

My first job ...

yard work and park maintenance

My best moment ...

Watching/meditating on the ocean and feeling One with it. An awesome feeling!

My inspiration ...

Listening to the Voice of Spirit within.

Arts & Humanities > Philosophical Concepts Attempting to define God

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To define or not to define God; that is the question. The idea of defining God may sound absurd to some people, especially mystics, who are more concerned with experiencing God. It is actually much easier to experience God than it is to define God. Because you can spend a lifetime researching and studying and reasoning in your mind the concept of what God is, which is useless intellectual gymnastics. It is much simpler and easier to go into your heart and learn to develop an intimacy with God, and in this way God will be revealed to you a little bit at a time. Most fundamental literalists ...

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