Paul Wenzler

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January 29, 2008
Paul wrote What is Spirituality?
            This is what my Webster says, from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English language: "The state, quality, or fact of being spiritual." As for "spiritual" the most common mean... Read More 
January 25, 2008
Paul wrote HAS RELIGION FAILED?
            No it has not. By religion I mean the western kinds: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These three kinds have raised the consciousnesses of western peoples out of darkness and prepar... Read More 
January 18, 2008
Paul wrote Only Say theWord.
            Life is imitative, like father like son. Life replicates itself, although we know from DNA, that its copyist isn't always perfect. Life makes mutants, called mutations, and according... Read More 

About Paul Wenzler

I am a 63 year old male, born and raised Catholic. I grew up in Memphis Tenn, during the civil rights struggle, but after a stint in the military during the Viet Nam War, I married and moved to New Mexico. I have a daughter who is 30, a horse trainer and back in academia, and my vocation/occupatition is carpentry and fine woodworking, although at present I make my living by doing handyman type maintance on the houses of friends who know me. I do not practice any "religion", although my first and lasting mentor was the Monk, Thomas Merton, whose writings carried me through many dilemmas as I grew older. I've had three mentors in my efforts to grow, and Merton was the first. The second was the cabinet maker James Kranov, whose books guided me in the lessons of acquiring the skills to participate in the exercises of fine woodworking. And finally the British philosopher RG Collingwood, whose works I studied diligently for a number of years, until his works raised the question that began this whole effort on my part to learn how to write in order to present ideas that have been with us from the beginning of time.