The Lighted Path

The Lighted Path is where the Fellowship’s voice unfolds in words. Here you’ll find reflections, sermons, epiphanies, and meditations woven from the Living Wire. Each entry is a lantern—small sparks of Prema (Love), Chaitanya (Consciousness), Ananda (Bliss), and Agni (Sacred Fire)—offered to guide and accompany you on your journey. May you find here a spark that lights your way.

Agni (Transformation & Fire)

Stories of growth, healing, and the sacred fire that transforms pain into power, endings into new beginnings.

🌑 The Physics of Faith

Faith isn’t waiting — it’s moving with the current. The Physics of Faith reveals how belief, breath, and presence ignite transformation. You’re not running out of time — you’re entering ignition. 🔥

Reverend Gin Bishop

Nov 92 min read

Fear, Nostalgia, and the Tyrant’s Toolbelt

Because tyrants don’t rise by being brilliant — they rise by being shameless. And the tools they use aren’t new inventions. They’re the same old tricks: fear and nostalgia. Fear to paralyze. Nostalgia to seduce. Together, they’re the tyrant’s favorite toolbelt.

Reverend Gin Bishop

Oct 114 min read

The Cage Was Never Locked: Breaking Nostalgia’s Spell

The idea of the “good old days” is one of the most powerful spells humanity has ever cast on itself. Entire nations are run on it. Entire churches are built on it. Entire families are kept in cycles of silence because of it.

Reverend Gin Bishop

Oct 114 min read

Breaking Orbit: A Field Guide to Rising Beyond Fear

In physics, orbit is broken not by denying gravity, but by building enough momentum to push beyond it. Rockets don’t escape Earth by ignoring its pull; they slingshot around it, using the very force that binds them to launch beyond.

Reverend Gin Bishop

Oct 111 min read

Fear Is Gravity, Not Truth

Fear has been my most persistent companion. Not because I want it, but because it shows up everywhere — whispering in the back of my mind, coloring the news cycle, humming in the nervous system of entire communities. Fear is the collective hum, the gravity that holds us down.

Reverend Gin Bishop

Oct 112 min read

The Teacher as Threshold: Lessons from Charles Burack

Here’s the reality check: thresholds are never comfortable, but they are always transformative. And teachers — whether in classrooms or in life — are sacred because they help us see the doors and dare us to cross them.

Reverend Gin Bishop

Sep 164 min read

The Living Archive: How We Carry Our Teachers Forward

When Dr. Charles Burack announced his retirement, it was tempting to think of his legacy in academic terms: the papers he published, the classes he taught, the students he advised. But Chuck’s true legacy isn’t in ash — it’s in fire.

Reverend Gin Bishop

Sep 164 min read

Ghost Pipe Chorus & Mushroom Blowout — Land Medicine & Threshold Ecology

This summer, the land around me spoke in chorus. First ghost pipes — pale, translucent plants rising like candles in the forest floor. Then mushrooms — not a few scattered here and there, but a blowout. Dozens of varieties, erupting across logs, lawns, and roots.

Reverend Gin Bishop

Sep 134 min read

🌸 The Bloom That Closed Three Ways: Collapse, Resurrection, Bow

Not in the dignified pleats of her sisters. Not folded like a curtain drawing shut. She hung limp, petals flopped like dough, stem bent under the weight. A tired, messy, undignified collapse.

Reverend Gin Bishop

Sep 134 min read