The Spiritual Beginner
Humble Reflections & Ramblings on Arts, Psychology & Theology

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For Something Good to Come Into Our Lives, we Need to be Willing to Let Something Else go
Posted Jun 30, 2025 How easy is it for you to embrace change? Have you ever felt paralyzed by the fear of the unknown? Easier for some than for others, change can be challenging, and many will choose to avoid it altogether. For example, moving to a new country is not only bureaucratically burdensome and…
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Is Matriarchy a Death Sentence? A Wicker Man Analysis
Posted May 7, 2025 A movie about women empowerment that should give you the chills. This movie was a remake of the (much darker) Wicker Man version from 1973. In this modernized version, classified by Wikipedia as ‘black comedy horror film‘ Nicolas Cage is a police officer traumatized by guilt over a road accident…
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Brazilian Proverbs & Expressions
Posted Jul 12, 2024 One of the funniest cultural aspects in any country are the expressions and proverbs. Many times filled with wisdom and sometimes just funny, the people in the culture don’t even realize they are using it until there is a foreigner in the conversation. For the foreigner, there might be an attempt…
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If God Exists & is Good, Why is There Evil in the World?
Posted Jun 8, 2023 This question is present in one shape or another in any debate with an gnostic or atheist friend. This is a valid question for someone who is trying to understand who Yahuah (God) is and there is not a perfect answer, but we can do our best! 😉 When I am…
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A Second Wife‘s Journey Into a Plural Family
Posted Nov 9, 2023 Polygyny is a heated debate. Everyone has an opinion about the matter, regardless of how much one has actually studied it. I must admit that until Biblical Marriage was revealed to me as a righteous family structure, polygyny sounded unfair and misogynistic. The female mindset – whether we like to admit…
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We are Nothing But a Pot Among Earthen Pots… (or Pottery in the Bible)
Posted Aug 27, 2023 Long ago, when we could not buy our plates and glasses made in China, potters were the professionals that made it possible to have a plate, a glass, cup, vase or water jug. They could be sophisticated or cheap, but they were basically clay. Clay with a form, later hardened by…
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Can Scripture Make us Laugh?
Posted Jun 21, 2023 Our Creator gave us a sense of humor to lighten up our experience in this realm, and laughing can be quite healthy, so why not? Here are my favorite funny passages in the Bible: 1) Yahuah knows that Sarah laughed (Genesis 18) Imagine you are a woman approaching 90 years old…
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Book Review: Let Them Look West (or a Modern Scorpion’s Tale)
Posted Apr 6, 2023 I came across Marty’s book on a list of books described as ‘shadow-banned’, meaning those that are either unavailable online or not recommended by your favorite book source due to ‘provocative’ content. Though in this case, to be fair, I managed to find it for sale normally. So, after months sitting…
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WestWorld: An Esoteric Review & a Reflection on Free Will
Posted Feb 26, 2023 Imagine a park where a visitor can go and interact with fully realistic humanoids in a wild west theme. Shooting and ‘killing’ any robots (and doing anything else) would not only be perfectly allowed, but also encouraged (do what thou wilt). After each day of ‘fun’, the bodies of the robots…
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Judges 19 Explained – a Story of Injustice & How Godlessness Turns All Hearts Cold
Posted Jan 31, 2023 In those days there was no king in Yashar’el; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 21:25) For those who have not read all the books in the Scriptures, it might be a pre-conception that God’s Word would make sure only the good stories are there and that…
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Does it Really Run in the Family? Generational Curse & Our DNA
Posted Jan 23, 2023 “Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.” (Matthew 27:25) One New Age belief is that our lives here are governed by karma from past lives. Our objective is to break the karma spiral by getting to higher levels of spiritual development so…
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Book of Judges: The life of Samson
Posted Jan 9, 2023 Suicide is one of the saddest ends to a human life. It’s our complete lack of hope and our inability to cope with our spiritual despair. It is officially estimated that 700.000 people worldwide decide to take their own lives every year in the world. These are the numbers that can…
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Judges 7: Who Are You in the Army of the Most High?
Posted Jan 8, 2023 And Yahuah said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, “This one shall go with you,” shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you,…
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The Santa Claus Big Fat Lie – or How to Create an Atheist
Posted Dec 15, 2022 For most Western people, Christmas means love. We connect Christmas with our families coming together to celebrate with good food, laughter and the physical representation of what some feel as love: the presents – all these pleasant memories we create during our lives shape a strong emotional bond with this holiday.…
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The Naked Man
Posted Oct 10, 2022 Now a certain young man followed Him, having a linen cloth thrown around his naked body. And the young men laid hold of him, and he left the linen cloth and fled from them naked (Mark 14:51-52). The Gospel of Mark is the only book that makes this mysterious remark about…
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