Applied Unificationism

As many teachers and prophets have taught, and as supported by scientific and historical evidence, our experience is largely shaped by our perception. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/10/10/the-abundance-mentality-with-biblical-references/

In April 1990, after his Moscow meeting with Soviet President Gorbachev, Rev. Sun Myung Moon asked Antonio Betancourt, Secretary General of the Summit Council for World Peace, to reach out on his behalf to North Korea. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/10/03/treating-an-adversary-with-the-respect-they-may-not-deserve/

It’s natural to presume that family are the people who think like us, are born into the same cultural group, share similar political stances, and even look like us. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/09/26/unearthing-my-dna-the-lost-sister/

Our church started from a few young people, who were once welcomed so delightfully as precious beings. What if we were to treat these wounded just like those young people, but who are recovered and recommitted, so as to be gladly welcomed as precious beings once again? This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/09/05/a-proposal-to-allocate-more-resources-for-counseling/

In my current experience, churches today can deliver a somewhat satisfying experience on the spiritual and emotional level, but without a more credible philosophical substrate, lack the capacity to support a moral or ethical context on which further societal development can be built. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/08/22/my-fellow-christians-we-are-challenged-to-make-the-case-for-faith-itself/

For me one of the more fascinating requests Rev. Sun Myung Moon gave to us was his request to WRIST in 1984 to develop technology to communicate with spirit world. It is not something I would ever have thought of doing myself, but after I became aware of the problem he posed, it has stayed with me throughout my spiritual life. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/08/08/how-to-meet-my-ancestors-a-theory-of-spirit/

Conceptual frameworks for interpretation determine the limits, or horizons, of human understanding. This applies to the interpretation of Unificationism, the philosophy of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/07/04/idealism-empiricism-and-realism-in-rev-moons-philosophy/

My interest in spiritual psychotherapy stems from over 40 years as a student of Rev. Sun Myung Moon and the Divine Principle. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/06/13/who-are-we-really-spiritual-psychotherapy-and-understanding-the-self/

Spiritual Connections: Living in the Flow of God’s Love (Circle of Angels Press, 201 pp., 2022) is an engaging spiritual autobiography of Nora Spurgin, who joined what was then called the Unified Family (later Unification Church) in New York in 1967. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/05/30/spiritual-connections-living-in-the-flow-of-gods-love/

As a second-generation Unificationist, I’ve suffered for a long time from the Cain-Abel model, a prototype relationship that has been applied to almost all kinds of personal as well as official relationships in the Unification movement. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://appliedunificationism.com/2022/05/16/a-remedial-shift-to-the-esau-jacob-model-an-internal-monologue/