@alisonemarshall.bsky.social
Spiritual cartographer. I map the mystical teachings of Baha’u’llah through prose, imagery, and quiet sanctuaries. Explore Paradise of Presence and more: https://alisonelizabethmarshall.com/
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15.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She develops the link between ideology and totalitarianism in her book The Origins of Totalitarianism. But you’ll find an easier entry to it in The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt.
14.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I asked Copilot to summarize your article. It has many resonances with Hannah Arendt's concern about how totalitarianism rests on a simple ideological idea, which the masses embrace and use to justify atrocities (hence the total dislocation from reality).
14.10.2025 03:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
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
Good heavens. So you live in Australia. I assumed that you lived in the US. I do love NZ. I don't have any desire to travel overseas. It seems to me I already live in the most desirable tourist destination.
22.09.2025 02:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fair enough. I had no idea there was such a person. I live in New Zealand. A creationist would just get laughed at here. In any case, your description dispels any notion of your being a creationist.
21.09.2025 07:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes, that’s fair enough. So long as we thought of God as a narcissistic autocrat in the sky, we were never going to know anything about God.
21.09.2025 07:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, John MacKay, I think I agree with you. But I come to that conclusion for religious, scientific, and philosophical reasons. We probably agree on the scientific and philosophical, but not on the religious - given that you describe yourself as secular.
20.09.2025 21:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
I couldn’t follow what you were saying. But, perhaps in a paragraph, you could give me the essence of your gospel of being. I’m not much of a reader, so no patience with long text. But I grasp concepts readily.
16.09.2025 03:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
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
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
"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
"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
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
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
16.08.2025 01:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
16.08.2025 01:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
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
04.08.2025 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My 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
I'm nothing like how I was when I was young. I feel like I've lived a lifetime each decade of my life so far. I recommend giving change a try. My experience is that animal instincts are nothing compared to the ecstasy of visionary journeying.
30.07.2025 02:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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
30.07.2025 02:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
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
30.06.2025 02:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dead right. Thank you for speaking out and for caring. Your actions stand behind your words. You’re an inspiration to me.
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