tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post3859813092674331932..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: Angels Heard On High, And Low, And Everywhere In Betweencolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-30056917734790161522009-01-05T13:33:00.000-07:002009-01-05T13:33:00.000-07:00These are great commentaries. I don't know how I ...These are great commentaries. I don't know how I missed them.<BR/><BR/>Great line butterfly:<BR/><BR/>To fear God is not a bad thing, it is the beginning of wisdom. But to fear Him so much that one is desensitized to His being in us is to deny Him. <BR/><BR/>Carl, I think you hit the nail on the head with this one:<BR/><BR/>What I have to wonder is how many of the "disaffected" in all religions are "disaffected" for the core reason that they have evolved to a point where religion in its current form no longer serves their highest good? I suspect it is a large percentage.<BR/><BR/><BR/>It's probably why one priest made the observation that while Jesus taught adults and blessed children, our institutional churches teach kids and bless adults.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-6267838545206469532008-12-26T16:19:00.000-07:002008-12-26T16:19:00.000-07:00As I read thte commentary, it occurred to me that ...As I read thte commentary, it occurred to me that as we evolve into a greater awareness of our true nature, we perceive less and less need for a human intercessor between us and God. In fact,as we evolve spiritually, we realize that intercessors are in actuality barriers that keep us seperated from our true selves and our true nature, barriers that keep us seperate from a deep rich intimate understanding of our oneness. <BR/><BR/>Benedict is locked into his role as intermediary and his pontifications have the subtle design of attempting to put us back in our place (his idea of our place) rather than to assist us in taking that next step. <BR/><BR/>His exposition tells a great deal about how he views the laity. Rather than acknowledging and encouraging our spiritual evolution, he instead chooses to analogize the laity with children, implying that we are too ignorant to understand the real truth of our nature.<BR/><BR/>For this very reason, as we move forward with spiritual evolution, we find that we do not need organized religion. Organized religion is structured to keep us ignorant. Structured to lock us into legalism. Structured to keep those in "authority" in authority. Structured to keep us dependant. That was one of the issues that the Jewish Magisterial Authorities had with Jesus: he was independant of their authority. Does that sound familiar?<BR/><BR/>Organized religion serves a purpose, but as we evolve spiritually we find ourselves with less and less need for legalism, less and less need for rules and laws, less and less need for an intecessor, less and less need for all of the things that keep the catholic heirarchy in power.<BR/><BR/>What we find is a growing restlessness within us. A yearning for something more. A desire to be more fully expressed, our true expression. The catholic church never has, and in its current form never will be able to fullfil that yearning.<BR/><BR/>What I have to wonder is how many of the "disaffected" in all religions are "disaffected" for the core reason that they have evolved to a point where religion in its current form no longer serves their highest good? I suspect it is a large percentage.COL55https://www.blogger.com/profile/07057765287988790129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-17809772973900010102008-12-26T13:17:00.000-07:002008-12-26T13:17:00.000-07:00The Pope makes reference here to children over and...The Pope makes reference here to children over and over, but Jesus is no longer that child in the stable. Jesus is found is the drunkard like in Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' article on ncrcafe. Jesus is found in Fr. Roy Bourgeois, in womenpriests, in gays, in divorced and remarried people, but the Pope is looking elsewhere, just as the Pharisees were looking elsewhere, to some God who was distant, whom they did not know.<BR/><BR/>I have some books around here I am going to reacquaint myself with again. Where Angels Walk by Joan Webster Anderson, 1992, and Life after Life by Raymond A Moody Jr., MD. <BR/><BR/>The Pope seems to focus too much on medieval writers or of Church fathers who seemed to be very limited and distant in their understanding of God. To fear God is not a bad thing, it is the beginning of wisdom. But to fear Him so much that one is desensitized to His being in us is to deny Him. <BR/><BR/>God does not need us. He has no needs. It is His love for us which is the cause for Him Coming in Jesus. He came because we need Him. Jesus is the manifestation of God's love for us. In relationship with Him we are never equal to Him but we share the fruits of His love in that relationship.<BR/><BR/>word is bobema - novena to the angels of the Lord.butterflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09684946870144030594noreply@blogger.com