General Information
Welcome to the General Archives!
This is a place we preserve items of importance to our community. You are welcome to download these for your listening or reading pleasure, and to share them with others. If you’d like to understand “who we are” and the “work we do” as a spiritual organization, these materials are a great way to get to know us as they are recorded live in our fellowship gatherings, worship ceremonies, and seminary programs. We ask that you hold these materials with respect, as the individuals who are sharing here are doing so from the heart, expressing themselves with vulnerability and openness. Thank you!
Diversity
Although on the inner planes many of our differences disappear into light, in the world of time and space, we are people, and people form attachments based on likes and dislikes. Tzaddi is a diverse spiritual learning community, so you are likely to rub elbows with...
How Tzaddi Fits In
In understanding how Tzaddi fits in to world spiritual traditions, it may be useful to consider, “How did the spiritual lineages that we accept as ‘established’ actually begin, and what do they have in common?” Judaism, the oldest of the three monotheistic religions...
Our Name, Tzaddi
What's in a name—our name, Tzaddi? We pronounce the name "T-zah-dee," with the accent on the second syllable. Our formal, legal name is "The Bishop of the Church of Tzaddi." Tzaddi is a letter in the Hebrew alphabet. It happens to be the heading on a Bible verse that...
No Time, No Space
Our inter-spiritual metaphysical philosophy is that the visible, physical world reflects an inner world of dynamic spiritual energy, sometimes known as the spirit planes of light, also known as the inner planes. While this inner world is invisible to someone in an...
A New Age, A New Spiritual Office
Our planet is in the process of making a shift between the Piscean and the Aquarian astrological ages. Mystics and prophets of many different cultures have foreseen this shift for centuries (Book of Revelations, various Native American traditions, etc.). Many...
Mystical & Metaphysical Experiences
Ordinary states of consciousness are described by Kylea Taylor in her book The Ethics of Caring as "normal and usual for most people in Western cultures. We spend most of our time in these ordinary states: working, studying, calculating, talking, writing letters,...
Continuum of Consciousness
As we grow from infancy to adulthood, each one of us traverses a continuum of consciousness, not automatically, but through experience: All growth in consciousness is a process of inner realization All inner realizations are the result of personal experience meditated...