The spiritual scientists continue to do spiritual experiments to transmit God's loving energy, showing the reliability of that other world that has extraordinary effects on this one. The best discovery is that although the most Joyous Being in the universe is invisible, he exists and has an infinite amount of fierce selfless affection for each one of us.

Lessons about Spirituality from Humour

Humour can teach us about spirituality.

In the world of humour, like the spiritual world, an alternative type of logic runs through things that is fundamentally different from the logic of rational analysis. Each world spins with a different structure, nature, and set of laws in terms of what will "fly" and "not fly".

In order to be funny and thrive in Humour Land, similar to being spiritual and thriving in Spiritual Land, one needs to grow in intuitively grasping how to run cooperatively with that world's laws, nature, and nuanced intuition which are different from those in Logical Analysis Land. What works in grasping one plane of reality will not, in and of itself, help in grasping the other.

Even if pure motives are present, one cannot use rationality and scientific logic to grasp spiritual logic, let alone humour-logic (or vice versa). In fact, trying to intellectually dissect a joke to understand it is like dissecting a frog. It will kill it in the process. Simiarly, trying to use one's mental hands to tightly grasp something spiritual, like a paradox (e.g. one needs to give up one's life in order to save it), can end up suffocating a first-hand experience of it.

Supernaturally Empowered Street Smarts

My Master on earth was well versed in the drama of out-maneuvering all kinds of devious social traps designed to ruin him. His supernaturally assisted ability to navigate our deceit saturated world was unparalleled. With an upgraded version of Solomon's street smarts (1 Kings 3:16-28), he had the greatest street smarts the human world has ever seen.

His discernment could pierce through the manipulated layers of verbals and nonverbals designed to camouflage the hidden motives of those secretly against him. When he sensed a red light from God, he would submit even though he was fully aware of the totality of manipulative scheming in front of him (John 6:64). When he sensed a green light from God, however, he would execute one of his many social-jiujitsu responses to not only escape a trap laid against him, but end up inverting the original trap to immobilize the trap setter. Observers would be astonished as they repeatedly saw him about to get checkmated, only to reverse-shift the leverage and embarrassingly checkmate his opponents who thought they had the upper hand (Luke 20:19-26). He would do so without having an air of superiority, egotism, or cynicism, but just with an intention to carry out his part in God's redemptive purposes in human history.

If something occurs multiple times in a person's biography, it can be seen as an important part of their life. Although learning from Jesus is more than just learning from his street smarts, it is certainly nothing less than it. His early followers picked up on this (Romans 16:17-19, 2 Timothy 3:13).

Wound Rap Poem

Last fall for one of my counselling courses, we had an assignment where we had to write out a "wound poem" expressing our life-long emotional wounds and their healing. I decided to make a rap song out of it.

Later on, my friend produced a video for it. Big thanks to Huntley Lue for taking the time and effort to visually animate the lyrics!

(There's some psychotherapy references that some may be unfamiliar with. But Google can be of help =o)

*note: I truly love my parents. I'm fully convinced that they loved me the best way they knew how. They're just not perfect, like all parents, and hence couldn't have protected their child from the inevitable wounds in this lifetime*