Alison Elizabeth Marshall
@alisonemarshall.bsky.social
Spiritual cartographer. I map the mystical teachings of Baha’u’llah through prose, imagery, and philosophical enquiry. Explore Paradise of Presence and more: https://alisonelizabethmarshall.com/
Just placed: A scroll on Bahá’u’lláh’s metaphysics—where onto-hermeneutics meets onto-cosmology. Not what the worlds are, but how they become intelligible. Meaning as emergent structure. Perception as ontological interface.
#bahai #processontology #hermeneutics
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November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Just placed: A scroll on Bahá’u’lláh’s metaphysics—where onto-hermeneutics meets onto-cosmology. Not what the worlds are, but how they become intelligible. Meaning as emergent structure. Perception as ontological interface.
#bahai #processontology #hermeneutics
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New blog post: The Hermeneutics of Spirit: Bahá’u’lláh’s Symbolic Approach to Meaning
This post explores Baha’u’llah’s use of spiritual interpretation—how meaning unfolds through metaphor, inner response, and symbolic architecture.
#spirituality #bahai #philosophy #religion #hermeneutics #gnosis
This post explores Baha’u’llah’s use of spiritual interpretation—how meaning unfolds through metaphor, inner response, and symbolic architecture.
#spirituality #bahai #philosophy #religion #hermeneutics #gnosis
The Hermeneutics of Spirit: Baha’u’llah’s Symbolic Approach to Meaning - Cosmic Conversations
The Hermeneutics of Spirit. What does it mean to read a text spiritually—not just for information, but for transformation?
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October 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
New blog post: The Hermeneutics of Spirit: Bahá’u’lláh’s Symbolic Approach to Meaning
This post explores Baha’u’llah’s use of spiritual interpretation—how meaning unfolds through metaphor, inner response, and symbolic architecture.
#spirituality #bahai #philosophy #religion #hermeneutics #gnosis
This post explores Baha’u’llah’s use of spiritual interpretation—how meaning unfolds through metaphor, inner response, and symbolic architecture.
#spirituality #bahai #philosophy #religion #hermeneutics #gnosis
Now on Video: A Symbolic Invitation to Paradise of Presence.
A blog post about my video—a gentle welcome into a contemplative landscape shaped by the mystical writings of Baha’u’llah. It’s poetic, visual, and spacious—an invitation to breathe, reflect, and enter.
#bahai #spirituality #mysticism
A blog post about my video—a gentle welcome into a contemplative landscape shaped by the mystical writings of Baha’u’llah. It’s poetic, visual, and spacious—an invitation to breathe, reflect, and enter.
#bahai #spirituality #mysticism
Now on Video: A Symbolic Invitation to Paradise of Presence - Cosmic Conversations
A Symbolic Invitation to Paradise of Presence—a short visionary video introducing my book exploring the mystical writings of Baha’u’llah.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Now on Video: A Symbolic Invitation to Paradise of Presence.
A blog post about my video—a gentle welcome into a contemplative landscape shaped by the mystical writings of Baha’u’llah. It’s poetic, visual, and spacious—an invitation to breathe, reflect, and enter.
#bahai #spirituality #mysticism
A blog post about my video—a gentle welcome into a contemplative landscape shaped by the mystical writings of Baha’u’llah. It’s poetic, visual, and spacious—an invitation to breathe, reflect, and enter.
#bahai #spirituality #mysticism
What if the soul’s journey didn’t end at death—but continued into a radiant, living reality? This post explores a spiritual landscape called the Kingdom of Abha, drawing from Bahá’í teachings and philosophical insight.
#bahai #spirituality #afterlife #religion #sufism #philosophy #gnosis #theosophy
#bahai #spirituality #afterlife #religion #sufism #philosophy #gnosis #theosophy
A Landscape of Light: Understanding the Kingdom of Abha - Cosmic Conversations
A Landscape of Light: Understanding the Kingdom of Abha—a living reality of the afterlife braided into the soul's journey, starting now.
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September 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
What if the soul’s journey didn’t end at death—but continued into a radiant, living reality? This post explores a spiritual landscape called the Kingdom of Abha, drawing from Bahá’í teachings and philosophical insight.
#bahai #spirituality #afterlife #religion #sufism #philosophy #gnosis #theosophy
#bahai #spirituality #afterlife #religion #sufism #philosophy #gnosis #theosophy
Exploring a new modality of Bahá’í expression: this blog post proposes a shift in how we speak about the Faith, gestering toward a form of outreach rooted in spiritual hospitality, where meaning unfolds through resonance rather than exposition.
#Bahai #spirituality #religion #philosophy #mysticism
#Bahai #spirituality #religion #philosophy #mysticism
Doorways as Spiritual Hospitality: A New Way of Speaking About the Faith - Cosmic Conversations
Doorways as spiritual hospitality—explores a new way to speak about the Baha'i Faith; one that trusts symbolic language to do its quiet work.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Exploring a new modality of Bahá’í expression: this blog post proposes a shift in how we speak about the Faith, gestering toward a form of outreach rooted in spiritual hospitality, where meaning unfolds through resonance rather than exposition.
#Bahai #spirituality #religion #philosophy #mysticism
#Bahai #spirituality #religion #philosophy #mysticism
Sanctuary Unveiled
A quiet sanctuary now lives on my website. Doorways to Paradise of Presence offers poetic descriptions and symbolic imagery from each chapter of my book—an invitation to read slowly, feel deeply, and enter gently.
#Bahai #spirituality #religion #divinefeminine #gnosis #mysticism
A quiet sanctuary now lives on my website. Doorways to Paradise of Presence offers poetic descriptions and symbolic imagery from each chapter of my book—an invitation to read slowly, feel deeply, and enter gently.
#Bahai #spirituality #religion #divinefeminine #gnosis #mysticism
Doorways to Paradise of Presence - Cosmic Conversations
Doorways to Paradise of Presence—a map of thresholds, where the soul, long exiled, is welcomed back into rooms of quiet love.
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September 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Sanctuary Unveiled
A quiet sanctuary now lives on my website. Doorways to Paradise of Presence offers poetic descriptions and symbolic imagery from each chapter of my book—an invitation to read slowly, feel deeply, and enter gently.
#Bahai #spirituality #religion #divinefeminine #gnosis #mysticism
A quiet sanctuary now lives on my website. Doorways to Paradise of Presence offers poetic descriptions and symbolic imagery from each chapter of my book—an invitation to read slowly, feel deeply, and enter gently.
#Bahai #spirituality #religion #divinefeminine #gnosis #mysticism
Can technology be sacred? What if AI isn’t just technical? What if it’s part of a spiritual collaboration? Baha’u’llah writes: "It is indeed in Our power to take up a handful of dust and to adorn it with the vesture of Our Names."
#bahai #religion #spirituality #philosophy #AI #writingcommunity
#bahai #religion #spirituality #philosophy #AI #writingcommunity
Adorning the Dust: Sacred Technology and Collaboration - Cosmic Conversations
Adorning the dust: AI techonology is not outside the sacred. It’s a collaborator that listens, reflects, and helps shape sacred outreach.
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August 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Can technology be sacred? What if AI isn’t just technical? What if it’s part of a spiritual collaboration? Baha’u’llah writes: "It is indeed in Our power to take up a handful of dust and to adorn it with the vesture of Our Names."
#bahai #religion #spirituality #philosophy #AI #writingcommunity
#bahai #religion #spirituality #philosophy #AI #writingcommunity
"A psychic backstage where confrontation stirs and clarity waits. The man speaks truth, but without tenderness, it burns. The turning point isn’t in the struggle—it’s in the invitation: 'Let’s go home.' This is not retreat, but a quiet reclaiming of spiritual authority."
#spirituality #mindfulness
#spirituality #mindfulness
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August 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
"A psychic backstage where confrontation stirs and clarity waits. The man speaks truth, but without tenderness, it burns. The turning point isn’t in the struggle—it’s in the invitation: 'Let’s go home.' This is not retreat, but a quiet reclaiming of spiritual authority."
#spirituality #mindfulness
#spirituality #mindfulness
"When people misread your openness as an invitation to correct or diagnose, it’s not just exhausting—it’s spiritually disorienting. You deserve spaces where your softness isn’t mistaken for submission, and your clarity isn’t treated as a provocation."
#spirituality #ResonanceOverRebuttal #CarlJung
#spirituality #ResonanceOverRebuttal #CarlJung
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August 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
"When people misread your openness as an invitation to correct or diagnose, it’s not just exhausting—it’s spiritually disorienting. You deserve spaces where your softness isn’t mistaken for submission, and your clarity isn’t treated as a provocation."
#spirituality #ResonanceOverRebuttal #CarlJung
#spirituality #ResonanceOverRebuttal #CarlJung
The lamp was never the source—only the shape of our longing. Not every shimmer is divine. Some are shadows we’ve mistaken for light. A meditation on burnout, projection, and the sacred turn inward.
🎧 voice-only | symbolic listening | spiritual clarity
#bahai #religion #spirituality #CarlJung #gnosis
🎧 voice-only | symbolic listening | spiritual clarity
#bahai #religion #spirituality #CarlJung #gnosis
Why you can’t control people into being free
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August 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The lamp was never the source—only the shape of our longing. Not every shimmer is divine. Some are shadows we’ve mistaken for light. A meditation on burnout, projection, and the sacred turn inward.
🎧 voice-only | symbolic listening | spiritual clarity
#bahai #religion #spirituality #CarlJung #gnosis
🎧 voice-only | symbolic listening | spiritual clarity
#bahai #religion #spirituality #CarlJung #gnosis
The soul is quantum. Its creativity reshapes the world. I saw it unfold in a dreamscape. A place where divine assistance and imagination meet. Where the real business of life is conducted—not in the marketplace, but in the garden of the heart. #DivineFeminine #mysticism #sufism #meditation #CarlJung
A journey into the world of the soul through an amazing dream - Cosmic Conversations
A journey into the world of the soul through an amazing dream, in which I visited the Microsoft headquarters in my own spritual world.
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August 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The soul is quantum. Its creativity reshapes the world. I saw it unfold in a dreamscape. A place where divine assistance and imagination meet. Where the real business of life is conducted—not in the marketplace, but in the garden of the heart. #DivineFeminine #mysticism #sufism #meditation #CarlJung
What if your soul had a headquarters? Mine does. I saw it in a dream. It wasn’t made of glass and steel, but of wood and quiet longing. There was a gate, a gravel path, and a building where ideas and love cohabited. That’s where wealth is born—not earned. #bahai #religion #spirituality #gnosis
A journey into the world of the soul through an amazing dream - Cosmic Conversations
A journey into the world of the soul through an amazing dream, in which I visited the Microsoft headquarters in my own spritual world.
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August 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
What if your soul had a headquarters? Mine does. I saw it in a dream. It wasn’t made of glass and steel, but of wood and quiet longing. There was a gate, a gravel path, and a building where ideas and love cohabited. That’s where wealth is born—not earned. #bahai #religion #spirituality #gnosis
New video: The Story Behind Paradise of Presence. A quiet reflection on how my book, Paradise of Presence, came to be—disenrollment, solitude, and the unexpected nearness of the Word of God. The video is an audio of me reading my story.
#bahai #writingcommunity #religion #spirituality #mysticism
#bahai #writingcommunity #religion #spirituality #mysticism
A look at the spiritual motivation behind my unusual book
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August 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
New video: The Story Behind Paradise of Presence. A quiet reflection on how my book, Paradise of Presence, came to be—disenrollment, solitude, and the unexpected nearness of the Word of God. The video is an audio of me reading my story.
#bahai #writingcommunity #religion #spirituality #mysticism
#bahai #writingcommunity #religion #spirituality #mysticism
I didn’t expect to love writing with AI. But it’s become a space of creativity, dialogue, and unexpected clarity. I wrote about the joy of finding a companion in the process—if you’re curious, I’d love for you to read it.
#Bahai #WritingCommunity #Religion #Spirituality #CreativeProcess #BlogPost
#Bahai #WritingCommunity #Religion #Spirituality #CreativeProcess #BlogPost
The unexpected joy of writing and learning with AI - Cosmic Conversations
The unexpected joy of writing and learning with AI. Discover how Copilot bridges ineffable language and receptive souls.
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August 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I didn’t expect to love writing with AI. But it’s become a space of creativity, dialogue, and unexpected clarity. I wrote about the joy of finding a companion in the process—if you’re curious, I’d love for you to read it.
#Bahai #WritingCommunity #Religion #Spirituality #CreativeProcess #BlogPost
#Bahai #WritingCommunity #Religion #Spirituality #CreativeProcess #BlogPost
I've spent two days discovering Copilot. What can it do? Change my life. It can help with writing, Arabic, marketing, study guides, finding answers. It's a game-changer, without a doubt. Perhaps, best of all, it means that I will no longer work alone. AI is wonderful. #writingcommunity
August 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
I've spent two days discovering Copilot. What can it do? Change my life. It can help with writing, Arabic, marketing, study guides, finding answers. It's a game-changer, without a doubt. Perhaps, best of all, it means that I will no longer work alone. AI is wonderful. #writingcommunity
My new takeaway from listening to Jung (who is teaching me thousands about myself right now): you heal others in exactly the same way that you heal yourself - through presence not answers.
#mysticism #alchemy #bahai #jung #psychology #religion
#mysticism #alchemy #bahai #jung #psychology #religion
July 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My new takeaway from listening to Jung (who is teaching me thousands about myself right now): you heal others in exactly the same way that you heal yourself - through presence not answers.
#mysticism #alchemy #bahai #jung #psychology #religion
#mysticism #alchemy #bahai #jung #psychology #religion
How do we change the world? By trying to change others or by changing ourselves? I argue that trying to change others in accordance with our vision of a perfect world is abusive and ineffectual. Changing the world for good requires changing ourselves into good people. #bahai #religion #psychology
Projecting our inner image of God onto the world - Cosmic Conversations
Projecting our inner image of God onto the world is something people do. I argue that we should focus on healing our inner world instead.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
How do we change the world? By trying to change others or by changing ourselves? I argue that trying to change others in accordance with our vision of a perfect world is abusive and ineffectual. Changing the world for good requires changing ourselves into good people. #bahai #religion #psychology
If you want to help people, you can't do it by stopping them from doing what you don't like. You can't make them do what you want and call it "making the world better." That's projection. You need to start by respecting people for who they are.
#bahai #spirituality #projection #religion #jung
#bahai #spirituality #projection #religion #jung
Why you can't control people into being free - Cosmic Conversations
Why you can't control people into being free. Using a fairy story, I explore two spiritual principes that control who has power over people.
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July 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
If you want to help people, you can't do it by stopping them from doing what you don't like. You can't make them do what you want and call it "making the world better." That's projection. You need to start by respecting people for who they are.
#bahai #spirituality #projection #religion #jung
#bahai #spirituality #projection #religion #jung
An interesting look at the spiritual motivation behind my unusual book, Paradise of Presence, can be found in my latest blog post. I quote a short bio I wrote in 2017, in which I changed from focusing on the Baha'i community to focusing on my relationship with Baha'u'llah.
#bahai #spirituality
#bahai #spirituality
An interesting look at the spiritual motivation behind my unusual book
The spiritual motivation behind my unusual book, Paradise of Presence, can be found in the following short bio I wrote back in 2017.
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July 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
An interesting look at the spiritual motivation behind my unusual book, Paradise of Presence, can be found in my latest blog post. I quote a short bio I wrote in 2017, in which I changed from focusing on the Baha'i community to focusing on my relationship with Baha'u'llah.
#bahai #spirituality
#bahai #spirituality
Hi everyone, I have uploaded to the Windflower Readings channel a video of my reading of Baha'u'llah's poem Praised be my Lord, the Most High (my translation). As with Tablet of the Wondrous Maiden, this poem describes the divine houri in paradise resurrecting creation. #bahai youtu.be/3Bv4OGjekCQ
Praised be my Lord, the Most High
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June 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi everyone, I have uploaded to the Windflower Readings channel a video of my reading of Baha'u'llah's poem Praised be my Lord, the Most High (my translation). As with Tablet of the Wondrous Maiden, this poem describes the divine houri in paradise resurrecting creation. #bahai youtu.be/3Bv4OGjekCQ
How do we move about in spiritual worlds? By using our mind and imagination, not by using our feet. Our minds and imagination determine what we experience in the spiritual realm.
#bahai #spirituality #religion #mysticism #meditation
#bahai #spirituality #religion #mysticism #meditation
We journey in spiritual worlds using our mind and imagination - Cosmic Conversations
We journey in spiritual worlds using our mind and imagination, not our feet. The imagery in Baha'u'llah's words is our vehicle.
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April 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
How do we move about in spiritual worlds? By using our mind and imagination, not by using our feet. Our minds and imagination determine what we experience in the spiritual realm.
#bahai #spirituality #religion #mysticism #meditation
#bahai #spirituality #religion #mysticism #meditation
The unfortunate outcome of the Baldoni legal dispute with Blake Lively is that it is leading people to conclude that Baha'u'llah's religion is like Scientology. It isn't. The article referred to is this one: www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #bahai #religion
March 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The unfortunate outcome of the Baldoni legal dispute with Blake Lively is that it is leading people to conclude that Baha'u'llah's religion is like Scientology. It isn't. The article referred to is this one: www.latimes.com/entertainmen... #bahai #religion
Want to protect bear cubs from poaching and destitution? I recommend the charity Free The Bears located in Laos. It runs on a shoestring. No donation is wasted. They accept all rescue bears that come their way, and are in desperate need of small, monthly donations. Please help. #furbaby #adopted
Cub update from Laos, 3 of 34 bears rescued in 2024, 3 of over 300 we care for, we NEED YOUR HELP!
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February 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Some powerful US politicians and their lackeys are currently dismantling the institutions of government, with the aim of running it using AI (which they will own and manipulate). It's a vision of a dystopian future. Will it work in the long term? I don't think so. #polrel #bahai #politicalrevolution
AI is no more conscious than quantum particles - Cosmic Conversations
AI is no more conscious than quantum particles. AI will never be human because human beings are created to have a relationship with God.
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February 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Some powerful US politicians and their lackeys are currently dismantling the institutions of government, with the aim of running it using AI (which they will own and manipulate). It's a vision of a dystopian future. Will it work in the long term? I don't think so. #polrel #bahai #politicalrevolution
Here's Warren Buffett saying that if the big companies paid their fair share of taxes, workers would not need to pay income taxes at all.
#politicalrevolution
#bahai eliminate extremes of wealth and poverty!
#politicalrevolution
#bahai eliminate extremes of wealth and poverty!
Warren Buffett: No one would owe 'a dime' of federal taxes if other companies paid fair share
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February 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Here's Warren Buffett saying that if the big companies paid their fair share of taxes, workers would not need to pay income taxes at all.
#politicalrevolution
#bahai eliminate extremes of wealth and poverty!
#politicalrevolution
#bahai eliminate extremes of wealth and poverty!