Such synchronicity. I’m currently engulfed in Cynthia Bourgeault’s books and teachings in the Wisdom Tradition, including the discovery of the pre-canonical gospels of Thomas and Mary Magdalene (Cynthia’s book on her is phenomenal!). A form of non-dual path seems quite possible within the broader confines of Christianity. A path that I had only considered passable through Easter wisdom traditions, including Advayta Vedanta. Your new name Vivekananda seems to point in that direction, I’m a big fan of Swami Sarvapriyananda’s teachings based on Swami Vivekananda.
To sit still and not care leads us to the Holy Spirit's care which resides in the RH.
My experience of the presence and the analytics of the Holy Spirit mechanism.
Nothing mystic here, only reality. The reality of the two thought systems.
I sense this in your choice of references as well.
As Jesus also says somewhere: "Unless you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of God," between death and birth, rebirth. For this to happen innocence and purity is also needed. Seek and you shall find and the truth will set you free. The RH dynamic deterministic Real systemic intelligence is also what can save the world from LH AI which would achieve AGI no doubt. But would that save the world? Once we understand the thought differences the answer must be NO.....
Thanks for sharing. I really appreciate your posts. One powerful way of experiencing Ashing that was new for me this year and brings Hindu and Christian threads together is via the tantric nyasa practice - you can invite the placement of the Christ symbol at head energy centre as the ‘installation’ of deity there. Consuming bread and wine can also be experienced as communion in the same, and even more embodied way. Mark x
Thank you so much for this reading of T S Elliot, myself my head was wetted at a christian church before a word of understanding could I speak. I also frequently briefly return on this day in remind to fast, and I will. My last year took me deep into the Philosophical enquiry into 'Godlessness' a very revealing spiritual practice, and challenging indeed.
Ash Wednesday? What is Wednesday? Can I hope to turn again, without realizing that cosmically, l am always turning? Turning with mother earth, within the darkness of space, my eyes missing the colors of day-time and the light of the father each night-time. Is the idea of an earth-turning period of time, named Wednesday, simply a socially constructed linguistic convention, out of touch with the earth-turning reality of being-in-time?
Is the 'term' Wednesday, simply a cognitive illusion paralleling the optical illusion that the sun moves in an arc across the sky? And are the cognitive illusions of our socially conditioned minds what Jesus called out with his stated reason for teaching parables? And why did men like Socrates say, "the definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom?"
Time? What is time? Can music, with salient lyrics take us back to a time in human history when the heart, not the head, was understood, to be our center of being? Consider: "And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again." — Time, Pink Floyd.
Are you shorter of breath and one day closer to death, Johnathan? Like the majority of humanity, do you tend to let sentimentality, distort your sense of reality? Like McGilchrist's "Who are We?" When a proper response to the reality of Creation, might be, "What are We?"
Such synchronicity. I’m currently engulfed in Cynthia Bourgeault’s books and teachings in the Wisdom Tradition, including the discovery of the pre-canonical gospels of Thomas and Mary Magdalene (Cynthia’s book on her is phenomenal!). A form of non-dual path seems quite possible within the broader confines of Christianity. A path that I had only considered passable through Easter wisdom traditions, including Advayta Vedanta. Your new name Vivekananda seems to point in that direction, I’m a big fan of Swami Sarvapriyananda’s teachings based on Swami Vivekananda.
Thank you for reading Eliot. That was wonderful
Really enjoyed your vulnerability and honesty Jonathan.
thank you jonathon
Teach us to care and not care, to sit still.
To sit still and not care leads us to the Holy Spirit's care which resides in the RH.
My experience of the presence and the analytics of the Holy Spirit mechanism.
Nothing mystic here, only reality. The reality of the two thought systems.
I sense this in your choice of references as well.
As Jesus also says somewhere: "Unless you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of God," between death and birth, rebirth. For this to happen innocence and purity is also needed. Seek and you shall find and the truth will set you free. The RH dynamic deterministic Real systemic intelligence is also what can save the world from LH AI which would achieve AGI no doubt. But would that save the world? Once we understand the thought differences the answer must be NO.....
Ah what beauty. Falling in love with the way this poetry continues to fold around itself and Elude me.
I am all here for your wrestling with Christianity & imagining in the space between religion dying and being born.
Thanks for sharing. I really appreciate your posts. One powerful way of experiencing Ashing that was new for me this year and brings Hindu and Christian threads together is via the tantric nyasa practice - you can invite the placement of the Christ symbol at head energy centre as the ‘installation’ of deity there. Consuming bread and wine can also be experienced as communion in the same, and even more embodied way. Mark x
Perhaps it would be a useful exercise to check out the origins of Wednesday or Wodins- tag
Thank you so much for this reading of T S Elliot, myself my head was wetted at a christian church before a word of understanding could I speak. I also frequently briefly return on this day in remind to fast, and I will. My last year took me deep into the Philosophical enquiry into 'Godlessness' a very revealing spiritual practice, and challenging indeed.
Ash Wednesday? What is Wednesday? Can I hope to turn again, without realizing that cosmically, l am always turning? Turning with mother earth, within the darkness of space, my eyes missing the colors of day-time and the light of the father each night-time. Is the idea of an earth-turning period of time, named Wednesday, simply a socially constructed linguistic convention, out of touch with the earth-turning reality of being-in-time?
Is the 'term' Wednesday, simply a cognitive illusion paralleling the optical illusion that the sun moves in an arc across the sky? And are the cognitive illusions of our socially conditioned minds what Jesus called out with his stated reason for teaching parables? And why did men like Socrates say, "the definition of terms is the beginning of wisdom?"
Time? What is time? Can music, with salient lyrics take us back to a time in human history when the heart, not the head, was understood, to be our center of being? Consider: "And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again." — Time, Pink Floyd.
Are you shorter of breath and one day closer to death, Johnathan? Like the majority of humanity, do you tend to let sentimentality, distort your sense of reality? Like McGilchrist's "Who are We?" When a proper response to the reality of Creation, might be, "What are We?"