My favorite description of the spiritual life come from Trappist Thomas Keating..to live an ordinary life with extraordinary love. Amusing to read The Interior Castle and learn of Teresa of Avila's surprise that the 'ultimate phase'..what she called the seventh mansion..wasn't all ecstacy and magic but rather living an ordinary life with an abiding sense of the presence of God..(.who/ what exists only as Presence in the present for the mystics/contemplative in the various traditions.)
Recently been dabbling again in the metaphysical world and have been dismayed by the ascension stuff..no awareness of shadow, a similar escape fantasy that has plagued fundamentalist Christianity.
I have been a student of spirituality in many forms. It began in 1973 with Ram Dass..BE HERE NOW. All these years and all that study and practice?..and like you dear rambunctious Frederick..it's BE HERE NOW.
BTW been studying shamanism for 30 years and in those traditions the plants and animals call us younger brothers and sisters and they see themselves here to help us grow and become as wise as they are. That's the 'progress' I hope for..not Ascension but Incarnation.
This comment set the new week off to a great start. Thank you, Ruah.
This spoke directly to me: "Amusing to read The Interior Castle and learn of Teresa of Avila's surprise that the 'ultimate phase'..what she called the seventh mansion..wasn't all ecstacy and magic but rather living an ordinary life with an abiding sense of the presence of God." LOVE IT.
It's horrifying to consider how Descartes said that animals are only 'machines.' He should have looked in the mirror with his phalocentric obsession with the mind. Oy.
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My favorite description of the spiritual life come from Trappist Thomas Keating..to live an ordinary life with extraordinary love. Amusing to read The Interior Castle and learn of Teresa of Avila's surprise that the 'ultimate phase'..what she called the seventh mansion..wasn't all ecstacy and magic but rather living an ordinary life with an abiding sense of the presence of God..(.who/ what exists only as Presence in the present for the mystics/contemplative in the various traditions.)
Recently been dabbling again in the metaphysical world and have been dismayed by the ascension stuff..no awareness of shadow, a similar escape fantasy that has plagued fundamentalist Christianity.
I have been a student of spirituality in many forms. It began in 1973 with Ram Dass..BE HERE NOW. All these years and all that study and practice?..and like you dear rambunctious Frederick..it's BE HERE NOW.
BTW been studying shamanism for 30 years and in those traditions the plants and animals call us younger brothers and sisters and they see themselves here to help us grow and become as wise as they are. That's the 'progress' I hope for..not Ascension but Incarnation.
This comment set the new week off to a great start. Thank you, Ruah.
This spoke directly to me: "Amusing to read The Interior Castle and learn of Teresa of Avila's surprise that the 'ultimate phase'..what she called the seventh mansion..wasn't all ecstacy and magic but rather living an ordinary life with an abiding sense of the presence of God." LOVE IT.
It's horrifying to consider how Descartes said that animals are only 'machines.' He should have looked in the mirror with his phalocentric obsession with the mind. Oy.