http://busingers.ca/index.php?of=1 “To follow It, you must be cleaned – With mistakes that you do mean.” Not long ago, I was speaking with a group of people about serious things, and the word “reality” was used. The woman who used it, who had sampled the waters of the various religions, corrected herself: “What am I saying,” she […]
Category Archives: The Inner Life.
Error, Reality, and Religion.
17-Aug-10Jung on Dreams.
09-Aug-10buy generic Seroquel “It is from the all-uniting depths that the dream arises, be it ever so childish, grotesque, or immoral. So flowerlike is it in its candor and veracity that it makes us blush for the deceitfulness of our lives.”
Descending the Hierarchy of Being
06-Aug-10“And he saw in his dreams a ladder standing upon the earth, its top touching heaven, and angels of the Lord ascending and descending on it.” I recently spent a good deal of time with a group of Latin speakers, and had opportunity to observe one of the metaphors most dear to Latinists, the Platonic/Neoplatonic “hierarchy of […]
Abraham, Our Father in Faith.
13-Jul-10In the endless self-repeating Flows for ever more the Same; Myriad arches, springing, meeting, Hold at rest the mighty Frame; Streams from all things love of living, Grandest star and humblest clod; All the straining, all the striving, Is eternal rest in God. – GOETHE In any good religion, there should be something utterly unpalatable, […]
Intercessionary Prayer.
05-Jul-10It’s not news to note that Jesus attempted to realign human religion – typically some kind of combination of fear and self-praise – but human religion has managed to continue mostly unfazed by his critique. But occasionally the divergence still amazes me. Intercessionary prayer is one of those things. I hear Christians talking about “praying […]
Society Without the Father.
21-Jun-10An anecdote from Richard Rohr which caught my eye: When I was giving priests’ retreats in Peru, a sister working in the main prison in Lima told me a story I have never forgotten. She said as Mother’s Day was approaching the prisoners kept asking for Mother’s Day cards. She brought card after card so […]
Merton.
11-Jun-10Now looking at a book by Merton. Everyone tells me I should be into Merton. But I find him careless with words – so many of them, I find myself skipping them and flipping to the back of the book to see how many more I have to read – and then he sets up […]
Saint Paul.
11-Jun-10Still so explosive a religious figure. “Beyond good and evil,” really – Paul’s message, if understood and preached, could gobble up Nietzsche, and relativism, and modern amorality, and the like, rather than running away from it. “No one robs the strong man’s house, without first tying up the strong man.” He forgave us all our […]
Carl Jung.
26-May-10“My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.” – Carl Jung An old paperback I possess advertises its author thus: “Doctor and scientist, visionary and thinker, Carl Jung ranks with Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud as one of the great minds of the twentieth century.” […]
Christianity and the Survival of Creation.
21-Jun-10For the Feast of John the Baptist: this extremely good essay by Wendell Berry; highly recommended. Proof – as if it were needed – that the Magisterium of the Church resides not in the priesthood – which is almost always wrong – but in the Prophets. As it was, is now, and ever shall be. […]