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Jack: ‘You are the truest person I’ve ever known’; thoughts on ‘shadowlands’
Posted in philosophy, spiritual/metaphysical
On the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost (A brief soul/spirit study)
This is the day that the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice in it, and be glad.
Today Paul is telling the Christians in Corinth that he serves Christ, and the following struck me, after recently watching ‘The Ciderhouse Rules’ with its intertwined messages about abortion and possible suicide, as well as redemptive selfsacrifice :-
Paul says to the Christian Corinthians:
You are kings…
which the doctor in The Ciderhouse Rules echoes with his
“Goodnight, you kings of New England, you princes of Maine!”
I may have that messed up, apologies for a faulty memory. But I love that message in general; we do love that message to the children, as they chuckle in their beds.
Paul contrasts the apostolic role to that of the ordinary person, saying about the former:
…we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
Such is the deeply felt position of all true leaders, all prophets, all saints, all true heroes even of our latter times. It is the burden they carry, as does the doctor in the movie, and in the end, the father who has sinned greatly as well – a burden some souls in our time find too impossibly great and to our sorrow they are taken from us long before we are ready to say goodbye.
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Posted in spiritual/metaphysical, Uncategorized
Considering Love’s Importance to pre-Revolution & Creating a Better World
Posted in spiritual/metaphysical
Peter Matthiessen’s “In Paradise”
I have just finished my first reading of this last novel by Peter Matthiessen, and I came online to see what others found and experienced in reading this powerful book. Most of what I found tells well the subject matter and impact – best described in the various summaries of the work.
What I did not find, and missed not finding it, was a discussion of the questions raised and answers given. Most reviews seemed to feel the novel gives no answers, and certainly it has that effect upon one in the last pages where one would expect an answer to be found. But it is a truly beautiful work, and I think it a great shame that the internet seems not to contain, at least so far, meaningful discussion of what it might mean – most reviews found it a stark though compelling compilation of the frailties of the human character and the inadequacy of religion to address such frailties in any meaningful way. While these are indeed subjects within the text, I find so much more therein that none of the reviews I have found so far have adequately addressed.
I am beginning my second reading. It is not a long novel – can be read in one night really. On this forum we’ve discussed many of the issues raised, and they are harsh issues indeed. To begin with, have a look at ‘Lady with an Ermine’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_with_an_Ermine
The novel begins and ends with this Leonardo Da Vinci painting.
As I explore it for the second time, I would so love to have company on this journey. It takes us into the mind and heart by means of a mindless, heartless place – Auschwitz. If that was not hell, then we do not know what hell is.
Come with me and see where we end up.
Posted in philosophy, spiritual/metaphysical
ON PRAYER
“Silence is the mother of prayer.”
[ – The Way of a Pilgrim; The Pilgrim Follows His Way]
Posted in spiritual/metaphysical
Coyote Angel, from The Milagro Beanfield Wars
If I had an angel, it would be just like Amarante Cordova’s. He wouldn’t DO anything; just ‘listen and give some advice’.
Posted on April 8, 2013 by wendyedavis in spiritual/metaphysical
We Are One; let’s put that into action.
Thank you, Sweet Honey in the Rock for cleansing my soul and my dusty ass of its usual misanthropy this morning; I swear I’ll try to remember your clear message more in the future; it rings like a bell, and the sound vibrates my very bones. May it stay with me, and with any of you who feel it, too.
The message images send my spirit cartwheeling and careening through the cosmos, collecting more bits of the luminous stardust of which we’re made… And I can feel some understanding that all time happens at once, and echoes go forward as well as backward…in time.
Posted on April 6, 2013 by wendyedavis in spiritual/metaphysical
We Are.
(venus as the morning star rising with la luna bella)
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