Chapter 9: The Need for Initiation
Male initiation exists in every culture until the Modern era. It fulfills a deep human and social need. It is the oldest form of spiritual instruction. It turns narcissism into self-confidence and bravery. It was a journey into powerlessness. Jesus did this with the Apostles—they resisted. He makes the journey himself and says: “Follow me.” But we have perverted that command into “worship me.” Imposition from above brings violence from below. We need the voluntary simple joy of St. Francis.
Jesus was initiating his 12 as elders, not ordaining them as priests. When the clerical state became a way of advancement, it continued a patriarchal patter and became the way to go to heaven later, not change the world now. The clergy agree NOT to tell their parishioners what would make them uncomfortable if they agree to continue to pay their salaries. A life of service is what parishes need to be.
Right and Left came from the Estates General in France (97). On the Left were ordinary people: on the right were the nobility and the clergy. You need the right as the place to stand. But it is from their perspective that history is written. “Authority and continuity—Kings and Prophets symbolize these opposing sides. The right considers itself the product of rationality, experience, and civilization. The left has people’s movements, high-minded ideologies, reactions to injustice. MLK was a Prophet, leading a new Exodus. Political and church history was controlled and written by people on the right because they were the educated ones..
But the Bible is a subversive text, legitimating the people on the bottom! “Except for the Bible, it took until the second half of the 20th century for the left to begin to have a public and legitimate voice” (99). Institutional theology legitimizes what we NEED to be true in order to maintain the institution. For example, it posited seven sacraments when for centuries there were only two. The Bible affirms authority but also affirms change, reform and the voiceless. The Bible is biased; it takes the side of the rejected and poor.
We have to care also for the poor and stand in the position of the outsider for our own conversion. Spirituality is for people who have gone through hell. Jesus is at the side of the suffering and goes where the pain is. He takes away boundaries and we fall into the arms of God.
We cannot claim Jesus for our side (101). He never demands us to belong to his religion or sexual orientation. The way to Jesus’ touch is to desire it, and the only ones who desire it are the ones who have been emptied out. “The Eucharist is not a reward for good behavior, but medicine and food for sinners, and for those who do not know they are the very Body of Christ” (103).
Chapter 10: Hope that Is not Fantasy
The ego needs success and the soul needs meaning. Hope ‘is the fruit of a learned capacity to suffer wisely and generously.’ (104). Contemplative life is practicing for heaven now. God holds our contradictions together now and in eternity. Meditation will change you and change your society. The situation in the world can look bleak. Theology threatens to turn into fundamentalism which resolves everything by appeal to authority (Scripture) and distrusts the inner life promised by Jeremiah and Jesus. We do not have a compassionate economic system and we abandon the poor. There is fear and anger.
The progressive development of consciousness and love seems weak, but many (including Ken Wilber) see signs that the Holy Spirit is working, even outside of formal religion. Non-violence, justice and healing are relatively new words. Nothing can stop this reformation. The only future is ecumenical and shared. We differ to one another out of love. Each one of us has a jewel.
Our biggest lever is our place to stand. “Our free fall into Pure Be-ing becomes our very best do-ing” (108).
Cautionary Note:
The following words are not meant to be a substitute for reading the text, and they cannot communicate the fullness of meaning in it.
They will only function as reminders and catalysts for your thinking.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Session 4: March 25, 2012
Chapter 7: A Contemplative Stance
Why do we humans dwell in negativity? Why do we refuse Resurrection? Fear and negativity spread and unite people. Fear ends up being the last capital sin. It causes contraction which the ego loves. The soul moves by expansion, saying yes. We have to experience this, name our demon, before we can exorcise it.
We need someone to hold and accompany us on the journey inward. Negativity gives us a false place to stand. Hate makes the world go round much more than love does. The Risen Christ frees us from the NEED to fear and hate. Jesus exposed the lie of hatred. We have to face our capacity for fear and hate and then work towards and fall into love (72).
Religion and politics both judged Jesus to be the problem. Top down authority was wrong! Jesus accepted hate and made us look at it in a new way. He turned the murder of God into the redemption of the world. He did NOT change his Father’s mind, but changed the way we see the Father. If God is NOT hateful or punitive, then what right do WE have?
Jesus taught life could have a positive story and (2) that God is far different and far better than we ever thought. He taught the pattern of being rejected and then forgiving. In meditation, we see this process and weep ahead of time. It cannot remain theoretical.
There is a rebel and a dictator in each of us. Fear sparks these roles. We disguise our fear of losing something to justify our negative acts. Religion taught Law and obedience as the solution to all problems, but it needed to teach discernment—teach it compassionately. We talk about justice but mean vengeance.
In Jesus’ temptations, he faced his own potential for evil, selfishness, power. To discern these in others, we need a 20” meditation twice a day. It is a dying, a letting go. After ecstasy, the laundry.
Great religion introduces us to someone we can trust so we can give up creating patterns and know that we are guided. Fear people are “head” people (76). When you are in your mind, you are never at peace. We have to be in a much larger Unified Field. Scapegoating is the story of most human history (Lev. 16).
"Meditation is refusing to project our anxieties elsewhere, and learning to hold and fact them within myself and within God.” Satan means ‘accuser.’ Jesus did not project the human problem—he suffered it and transformed it. Therefore, we come to God through our weakness. Jesus’ “wounds were NOT necessary to convince God we were lovable; [they] were to convince us of the path and price of transformation.” Who would have created as the image of God a naked, bleeding, wounded man? “If you don’t transform your pain you will always transmit it.” (80).
Jesus on the cross was NOT paying any price to God as if God needed to be talked into loving His creation! Jesus was refusing to pass on the negative energy that we killing him—like a transformer that is NOT returning evil energy. “That is how he took away the sin of the world.”
In the 13th century theories about redemption, Dominicans and Jesuits posited that Jesus was paying a ransom (from Jewish practice); but Duns Scotus said: “Jesus wasn’t changing God’s mind about us, but rather He was changing our mind about God.” Jesus’ incarnation and death were NOT necessary. They are a pure gift. We were NOT saved to pay any debt, “but purely to reveal to the soul Divine Love.” God is unconditionally in love with what he has created!
Chapter 8: Finding Our Charism
Meditation is a vocation. Time to talk about the lever. There are many. They are called gifts in 1 Cor. 12. The church should be teaching discernment and empowering gifts. Do people have the gifts of healing, preaching, leading or are they just put into roles or educated into slots? “Untold damage has been done because we let office, role, title, vestments and formal ordination try to substitute for the free gifts of God.” “We tried to create the gifts where they were not and we refused to see they where they were” (85).
Jonah went from darkness to personal vocation; from ego driven to soul driven. You have to do it or you are not you. It’s also important to find what is NOT your gift. Most of us are really good at only one or two things. There are 3 levels of social ministry: (1)Basic—hands on: Time and money and a generous heart; (2) Education and healing: give people survival skills; (3) Social advocacy: critiquing injustice, activism. Let go some gifts to do others contemplatively and peacefully and with integrity. Avoid the tyranny of the Urgent. “Too much good work becomes a violence to yourself and finally to those around you.” But support the other levels. Avoid comparisons about who is doing more. These are ego games.
The Gospel is NOT about being nice, but about being honest and just. MLK wanted win/win solutions and deep spiritual conversion. Rohr founded CAC to assist activists in spiritual conversion so they would not be as angry and negative as the people they were fighting. They spend 80% at CAC on contemplation and ‘social critique’ takes care of itself. You go from power to vulnerability and solidarity from within. Prayer removes paranoia and narcissism. Most people do not want this. If you do not become generative, then you become estranged—securing your last years around yourself. Generate life for the next generation!
Why do we humans dwell in negativity? Why do we refuse Resurrection? Fear and negativity spread and unite people. Fear ends up being the last capital sin. It causes contraction which the ego loves. The soul moves by expansion, saying yes. We have to experience this, name our demon, before we can exorcise it.
We need someone to hold and accompany us on the journey inward. Negativity gives us a false place to stand. Hate makes the world go round much more than love does. The Risen Christ frees us from the NEED to fear and hate. Jesus exposed the lie of hatred. We have to face our capacity for fear and hate and then work towards and fall into love (72).
Religion and politics both judged Jesus to be the problem. Top down authority was wrong! Jesus accepted hate and made us look at it in a new way. He turned the murder of God into the redemption of the world. He did NOT change his Father’s mind, but changed the way we see the Father. If God is NOT hateful or punitive, then what right do WE have?
Jesus taught life could have a positive story and (2) that God is far different and far better than we ever thought. He taught the pattern of being rejected and then forgiving. In meditation, we see this process and weep ahead of time. It cannot remain theoretical.
There is a rebel and a dictator in each of us. Fear sparks these roles. We disguise our fear of losing something to justify our negative acts. Religion taught Law and obedience as the solution to all problems, but it needed to teach discernment—teach it compassionately. We talk about justice but mean vengeance.
In Jesus’ temptations, he faced his own potential for evil, selfishness, power. To discern these in others, we need a 20” meditation twice a day. It is a dying, a letting go. After ecstasy, the laundry.
Great religion introduces us to someone we can trust so we can give up creating patterns and know that we are guided. Fear people are “head” people (76). When you are in your mind, you are never at peace. We have to be in a much larger Unified Field. Scapegoating is the story of most human history (Lev. 16).
"Meditation is refusing to project our anxieties elsewhere, and learning to hold and fact them within myself and within God.” Satan means ‘accuser.’ Jesus did not project the human problem—he suffered it and transformed it. Therefore, we come to God through our weakness. Jesus’ “wounds were NOT necessary to convince God we were lovable; [they] were to convince us of the path and price of transformation.” Who would have created as the image of God a naked, bleeding, wounded man? “If you don’t transform your pain you will always transmit it.” (80).
Jesus on the cross was NOT paying any price to God as if God needed to be talked into loving His creation! Jesus was refusing to pass on the negative energy that we killing him—like a transformer that is NOT returning evil energy. “That is how he took away the sin of the world.”
In the 13th century theories about redemption, Dominicans and Jesuits posited that Jesus was paying a ransom (from Jewish practice); but Duns Scotus said: “Jesus wasn’t changing God’s mind about us, but rather He was changing our mind about God.” Jesus’ incarnation and death were NOT necessary. They are a pure gift. We were NOT saved to pay any debt, “but purely to reveal to the soul Divine Love.” God is unconditionally in love with what he has created!
Chapter 8: Finding Our Charism
Meditation is a vocation. Time to talk about the lever. There are many. They are called gifts in 1 Cor. 12. The church should be teaching discernment and empowering gifts. Do people have the gifts of healing, preaching, leading or are they just put into roles or educated into slots? “Untold damage has been done because we let office, role, title, vestments and formal ordination try to substitute for the free gifts of God.” “We tried to create the gifts where they were not and we refused to see they where they were” (85).
Jonah went from darkness to personal vocation; from ego driven to soul driven. You have to do it or you are not you. It’s also important to find what is NOT your gift. Most of us are really good at only one or two things. There are 3 levels of social ministry: (1)Basic—hands on: Time and money and a generous heart; (2) Education and healing: give people survival skills; (3) Social advocacy: critiquing injustice, activism. Let go some gifts to do others contemplatively and peacefully and with integrity. Avoid the tyranny of the Urgent. “Too much good work becomes a violence to yourself and finally to those around you.” But support the other levels. Avoid comparisons about who is doing more. These are ego games.
The Gospel is NOT about being nice, but about being honest and just. MLK wanted win/win solutions and deep spiritual conversion. Rohr founded CAC to assist activists in spiritual conversion so they would not be as angry and negative as the people they were fighting. They spend 80% at CAC on contemplation and ‘social critique’ takes care of itself. You go from power to vulnerability and solidarity from within. Prayer removes paranoia and narcissism. Most people do not want this. If you do not become generative, then you become estranged—securing your last years around yourself. Generate life for the next generation!
Session 3: March 18, 2012
Chapter 5: Passing Through the Eye of the Needle
The key to salvation is not worthiness, but God’s graciousness. You have to depend on it that meritocracy is not operative. Grace is that release. It makes us feel powerless. Successful people do not feel the need. We only hear what we want. We hear sins of the body but want essentials that tie us to clergy. We do not want to hear about justice. Non-essentials for Jesus (e.g., homosexuality, abortion) are now litmus tests for being religious.
But we do not hear about giving up all our possessions. ‘What must I do to gain eternal life?” is the wrong question. It’s narcissistic. Discharge your loyal soldier. Become a disciple, not caring about what to wear. What has to die is attachment to self-image, to our projection that we are leaders, bishops, etc. Go to the bottom of the pile.
Before 313, the church understood this: Didache (90), Shepherd of Hermes (120), Tertullian (200). The church was non-imperial and counter cultural. After 313, morality = sexual morality. Religious were on the edges. It used to be unthinkable to be in the army. Imperial forces were killing Christians; but then Christians became the army.
People transformed by grief have a different way of knowing. You can’t fix the loss and you’ll never understand it. Overly protected people cannot know deeply. Grief gives us solidarity with the real and the opportunity to be transformed. Go near the poor for this knowledge. Great love offers it also.
Chapter 6: Jesus’ Unique Assault on the Systems of This World
Religion needs to be about healing (and not just offer something for later). Salus = Healing. Not just maintaining order; not resolving spiritual issues with laws. Nothing in the Gospel mandates the emergence of monks. Laymen were considered people who knew nothing.
Meditation has no hierarchy or classes. Merton: we are not contemplatives; we just say a lot of prayers. Prayer beyond words is no longer taught.
Interior life is the ‘only antidote when religion has become a worthiness contest’ (60). “Buying and selling God must be replaced by prayer and healing.” Clergy became brokers of worthiness (as with the four courts of the Temple). Segregation pretends to come from God! (62). Consider, for example, the Communion rail and the Sanctuary. The Gospel became a worthiness system.
Jesus always touched the impure outsiders and criticized the inner court. “What you decide to see determines what you do not see.” Jesus is a mystical, not a moral flash point!
Giving from security vs. becoming poor like Jesus made it OK to get rich; to do charity instead of justice. Religious took care of the poor, made Catholicism survive. Opposition is a waste, but it may be effective to ask questions. Seek transformation, not to be right. Practice the better. Live like St. Francis.
The key to salvation is not worthiness, but God’s graciousness. You have to depend on it that meritocracy is not operative. Grace is that release. It makes us feel powerless. Successful people do not feel the need. We only hear what we want. We hear sins of the body but want essentials that tie us to clergy. We do not want to hear about justice. Non-essentials for Jesus (e.g., homosexuality, abortion) are now litmus tests for being religious.
But we do not hear about giving up all our possessions. ‘What must I do to gain eternal life?” is the wrong question. It’s narcissistic. Discharge your loyal soldier. Become a disciple, not caring about what to wear. What has to die is attachment to self-image, to our projection that we are leaders, bishops, etc. Go to the bottom of the pile.
Before 313, the church understood this: Didache (90), Shepherd of Hermes (120), Tertullian (200). The church was non-imperial and counter cultural. After 313, morality = sexual morality. Religious were on the edges. It used to be unthinkable to be in the army. Imperial forces were killing Christians; but then Christians became the army.
People transformed by grief have a different way of knowing. You can’t fix the loss and you’ll never understand it. Overly protected people cannot know deeply. Grief gives us solidarity with the real and the opportunity to be transformed. Go near the poor for this knowledge. Great love offers it also.
Chapter 6: Jesus’ Unique Assault on the Systems of This World
Religion needs to be about healing (and not just offer something for later). Salus = Healing. Not just maintaining order; not resolving spiritual issues with laws. Nothing in the Gospel mandates the emergence of monks. Laymen were considered people who knew nothing.
Meditation has no hierarchy or classes. Merton: we are not contemplatives; we just say a lot of prayers. Prayer beyond words is no longer taught.
Interior life is the ‘only antidote when religion has become a worthiness contest’ (60). “Buying and selling God must be replaced by prayer and healing.” Clergy became brokers of worthiness (as with the four courts of the Temple). Segregation pretends to come from God! (62). Consider, for example, the Communion rail and the Sanctuary. The Gospel became a worthiness system.
Jesus always touched the impure outsiders and criticized the inner court. “What you decide to see determines what you do not see.” Jesus is a mystical, not a moral flash point!
Giving from security vs. becoming poor like Jesus made it OK to get rich; to do charity instead of justice. Religious took care of the poor, made Catholicism survive. Opposition is a waste, but it may be effective to ask questions. Seek transformation, not to be right. Practice the better. Live like St. Francis.
Session 2: March 11, 2012 (with Rev. Roger Osgood)
Chapter 3: Living with Paradox
There is a deep “okayness” to life, despite all the contradictions; sadness and joy can coexist. Our culture of entertainment doesn’t demand depth, critical thinking, or the hard work of finding our fulcrums. Group narcissism allows for no education, no perplexity, no questioning. It is more dangerous than egocentricity. We promote dogma as if it were the thing itself. Early stage religion is intended to prepare us to meet “Substantial Reality,” the thing itself, “the hands of a living and loving God.”
”Illusion and delusions and dualisms must be taken away. The judging mind is dualistic; has a need to control. The “Ego” is what Paul means by the “flesh.” Contemplation helps us find the true self.
Don’t pray if your whole identity is in being Republican or Democrat, Christian or non-Christian, Black or White. Prayer wants to bring about a new creation. Contemplation leads to dispossession, not knowing.
The word “Yahweh” mimics breathing. We all breathe the same way. There is not a Buddhist or Catholic way to breathe! We are the reeds of God. We are being prayed through, without ceasing.
Chapter 4: Religion: a Transformational System?
Rohr quotes E.F.Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful. Form a center, but do not stay there at the level of Leviticus and Numbers. Religion is NOT a place to hide. The Prophets are the critics on the edge; they are illuminative. Wisdom literature brings in the unitive way, the Unified Field--Job, for example.
The Way requires dispossession, dying. True religion is not a belief or a belonging, but an invitation to fall in love with God. It is therefore transformational. It promotes healing. Preaching must heal if it is about living the Gospel. The church should teach contemplation, not co-dependence on the clergy. Build on what we are for; be led by the Holy Spirit to see we are what we hate in others.
Jesus taught win/win, not win/lose (nearly everyone loses in the traditional religious paradigm). Now certain questions about justice can’t be raised. God uses our sins to bring us to transformation. This is “restorative justice!” Jesus is at Kohlberg’s highest level, but we are stuck at Law and Order after Constantine turned the catacombs into basilicas.
The Bible is interpreted so that the good guys win and the bad guys lose. But it takes two steps forward then back one. God uses the devil for his own purposes. God is not vengeful; his justice is restorative. We have NOT gotten to first base with non-violence. First do it internally, with your own demons and brokenness.
Even Leviticus 25:23 has stage 3 Wisdom. Usury was punishable by excommunication until the 12th century. God gave the land freely; it should be given away.
Everything depends on knowing the Holy One so the mystery can flow through you.
Do meditation, not prayer, because prayer now has come to mean getting something instead of letting go. Do not divide the Bible dualistically. Jesus represents Judaism at its best.
There is a deep “okayness” to life, despite all the contradictions; sadness and joy can coexist. Our culture of entertainment doesn’t demand depth, critical thinking, or the hard work of finding our fulcrums. Group narcissism allows for no education, no perplexity, no questioning. It is more dangerous than egocentricity. We promote dogma as if it were the thing itself. Early stage religion is intended to prepare us to meet “Substantial Reality,” the thing itself, “the hands of a living and loving God.”
”Illusion and delusions and dualisms must be taken away. The judging mind is dualistic; has a need to control. The “Ego” is what Paul means by the “flesh.” Contemplation helps us find the true self.
Don’t pray if your whole identity is in being Republican or Democrat, Christian or non-Christian, Black or White. Prayer wants to bring about a new creation. Contemplation leads to dispossession, not knowing.
The word “Yahweh” mimics breathing. We all breathe the same way. There is not a Buddhist or Catholic way to breathe! We are the reeds of God. We are being prayed through, without ceasing.
Chapter 4: Religion: a Transformational System?
Rohr quotes E.F.Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful. Form a center, but do not stay there at the level of Leviticus and Numbers. Religion is NOT a place to hide. The Prophets are the critics on the edge; they are illuminative. Wisdom literature brings in the unitive way, the Unified Field--Job, for example.
The Way requires dispossession, dying. True religion is not a belief or a belonging, but an invitation to fall in love with God. It is therefore transformational. It promotes healing. Preaching must heal if it is about living the Gospel. The church should teach contemplation, not co-dependence on the clergy. Build on what we are for; be led by the Holy Spirit to see we are what we hate in others.
Jesus taught win/win, not win/lose (nearly everyone loses in the traditional religious paradigm). Now certain questions about justice can’t be raised. God uses our sins to bring us to transformation. This is “restorative justice!” Jesus is at Kohlberg’s highest level, but we are stuck at Law and Order after Constantine turned the catacombs into basilicas.
The Bible is interpreted so that the good guys win and the bad guys lose. But it takes two steps forward then back one. God uses the devil for his own purposes. God is not vengeful; his justice is restorative. We have NOT gotten to first base with non-violence. First do it internally, with your own demons and brokenness.
Even Leviticus 25:23 has stage 3 Wisdom. Usury was punishable by excommunication until the 12th century. God gave the land freely; it should be given away.
Everything depends on knowing the Holy One so the mystery can flow through you.
Do meditation, not prayer, because prayer now has come to mean getting something instead of letting go. Do not divide the Bible dualistically. Jesus represents Judaism at its best.
Session 1: March 4, 2012
Chapter 1: A Lever and a Place to Stand [Fulcrum]
The reference is to Archimedes (287-212 BCE). “If the lever stretched far enough and the fulcrum point remained fixed close to the earth, then even a small weight at one end would be able to move the world at the other”—this is Rohr’s metaphor for speaking about contemplation and action. Contemplation is the fixed point, the place to stand—it’s a slight distance from the world, but at the same time close to it, “loving it, feeling its pains and its joys as our pains and our joys” (2). It’s anchored in reality—without ideology, denial, or fantasy.
He feels St. Francis of Assisi and Thomas Merton loved the world and criticized it. They found the ‘hidden wholeness,’ what Rohr calls the “Unified Field.”
We often can’t find our levers, “or true ‘delivery systems by which to move our world’ (3). Religious are often too removed, and others don’t have the spiritual practice. We need both the ‘contemplative eyes’ and the involvement with the pain of the world, as the prophets had and as Jesus had. Titles or ordination do not confer it. Jesus was a layman; so were the Twelve. But there is the “innate wisdom of good people” that the church rightly calls the "sense of the faithful." And contemplation establishes “you inside the sensus fidelium of the Unified Field of the Holy Spirit” (4).
Action comes before contemplation, and it is the failures and limitation of action that drive you back into contemplation. There is a cycle of life and prayer that give you the lever and the place to stand “because you are being moved yourself inside a much larger Flow” (4).
Chapter 2: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Most of us have PhDs. in dualistic thinking. To get out of dualistic thinking, we need to try to “think things together.” That will change everything! Even our politics may change!
You yourself have to be present in order to appreciate the Real Presence. Information is not the same as transformation, or PhDs would all be saints.
Two big words for different ways of "knowing:"
Cataphatic: knowing through words and images;
Apophatic: knowing through silence. An un-knowing. You come to realize: I don’t need to know everything, because I am being held. I can “fall into” the Unified Field.
The reference is to Archimedes (287-212 BCE). “If the lever stretched far enough and the fulcrum point remained fixed close to the earth, then even a small weight at one end would be able to move the world at the other”—this is Rohr’s metaphor for speaking about contemplation and action. Contemplation is the fixed point, the place to stand—it’s a slight distance from the world, but at the same time close to it, “loving it, feeling its pains and its joys as our pains and our joys” (2). It’s anchored in reality—without ideology, denial, or fantasy.
He feels St. Francis of Assisi and Thomas Merton loved the world and criticized it. They found the ‘hidden wholeness,’ what Rohr calls the “Unified Field.”
We often can’t find our levers, “or true ‘delivery systems by which to move our world’ (3). Religious are often too removed, and others don’t have the spiritual practice. We need both the ‘contemplative eyes’ and the involvement with the pain of the world, as the prophets had and as Jesus had. Titles or ordination do not confer it. Jesus was a layman; so were the Twelve. But there is the “innate wisdom of good people” that the church rightly calls the "sense of the faithful." And contemplation establishes “you inside the sensus fidelium of the Unified Field of the Holy Spirit” (4).
Action comes before contemplation, and it is the failures and limitation of action that drive you back into contemplation. There is a cycle of life and prayer that give you the lever and the place to stand “because you are being moved yourself inside a much larger Flow” (4).
Chapter 2: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Most of us have PhDs. in dualistic thinking. To get out of dualistic thinking, we need to try to “think things together.” That will change everything! Even our politics may change!
You yourself have to be present in order to appreciate the Real Presence. Information is not the same as transformation, or PhDs would all be saints.
Two big words for different ways of "knowing:"
Cataphatic: knowing through words and images;
Apophatic: knowing through silence. An un-knowing. You come to realize: I don’t need to know everything, because I am being held. I can “fall into” the Unified Field.
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