Sacred Breeze Ministries - Archive
Engaging Mindfulness, Spirituality, and Faith for Liberation and Creative Awakening
Groucho Marx famously said “I refuse to join any club who would have me as a member.” Of course Groucho Marx, being Jewish, would have been excluded from any number of organizations during most of his lifetime from the late 1800’s to the mid 20th century. Perhaps humor was his way of dealing with the prejudice […]
Why do people scapegoat, target, and bring suffering to vulnerable people and groups? For JCI (Judeo-Christian-Islamic) Theists, why does God allow some people to scapegoat and harm others? Why doesn’t God just sweep in and take out the evildoers? In this sermon, which I shared with Jensen Beach Community Church, those questions and more are […]
Liberation, Love, and Creative Awakening was initially developed for people struggling with addiction, mental health, and relationship issues. Each chapter offers instructions, exercises, and guided meditations designed to increase mindful self-awareness, release challenges that block creative engagement, and cultivate creativity, compassion, and healthy loving relationships. The text draws inspiration from psychology, physical and biological science, […]
The meditation techniques I teach and use for stress reduction are available in my latest publication: Liberation, Love, and Creative Awakening: A Holistic Journey.
As a therapist, I often found myself counseling individuals who had been traumatized as children by “fire and brimstone” theology. This reinforced my aversion to religion being used in a threatening or coercive manner. And yet, sacred scripture from most traditions describe consequences for neglecting vulnerable, poor and needy persons…
Hello everyone, thank you for joining me, my name is Dave Miller and I am director of Sacred Breeze Ministries. Many of you know that from time to time I am invited to preach at Christian churches. When I do so, I tend to represent Jesus in human and historic terms as a way of […]
Have you ever gotten yourself into a situation, job, or relationship and asked yourself what am I doing here? Why am I in this situation? Why am I here at all? If not this, what should I be doing with my life? I think everyone asks themselves these questions from time to time, especially in […]
You know, both Buddha and Jesus new the truth. Both Abraham and Muhammed pointed the direction to the truth. The path to seeking power and control is doomed to enslavement, suffering, and death, for self and others. The path to compassion for all brings freedom, hope, healing, and reconcilliation, for self and others. It is […]
Please Click on Image to View Video. Is God real? If you were to ask this question to 100 people, you would no doubt get several answers of absolute yes, and several answers of absolute no. Outside of the solid answers, you would probably get a great many nuanced answers that basically say “I don’t […]
Please Click on Image to View Video. A large percentage of the population in the US, and indeed in all Democracy based western countries, have found reason to identify with exclusivist political ideologies that promote nationalist agendas. Another way to express this is that a large percentage of the population of Western Democracies have taken […]