tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post7429299674881309785..comments2023-08-21T03:51:17.425-06:00Comments on Enlightened Catholicism: The Never Ending Story Continuescolkochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-76268381361042989112010-08-01T18:09:14.802-06:002010-08-01T18:09:14.802-06:00Here is a very interesting icon:
http://www.icone...Here is a very interesting icon:<br /><br />http://www.iconenjorisvanael.be/Galerij/GetImage.php?image=2006-08-02_21_45_33zw-13.jpg&prefix=Jezus_beklimt_het_Kruis<br /><br />I'm not sure if or how it fits at all with the post. But I ran across a link to this icon - such rich and unique imagery in relation to the cross. And I wanted to share it.TheraPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17684120043427738135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-19834643647674379982010-08-01T17:52:24.505-06:002010-08-01T17:52:24.505-06:00p2p I'll eventually get to how and when I fina...p2p I'll eventually get to how and when I finally understood that you can't leave your light under a bushel. <br /><br />Gifts and knowledge one receives are meant to shared and to be gifted so that others may receive and gift. If anything I write opens a door, or becomes a key for someone else they too will come to understand the gift must be gifted.<br />It's a kind of higher quantum law. <br /><br />If it's kept too secret or used specifically to further one's own nest, it will rebound on you. That too is a quantum law. In Eastern spirituality it's called the law of karma. <br /><br />In the New Testament Jesus states these two quantum laws in a positive manner as "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." And, "love one another as you love yourself."<br /><br />Half the training and teaching a person goes through is to understand it's also true that you will hate others as you hate yourself. Quite a bit of the teachings, especially individually assigned work, is to get over the things you hate about yourself and or that you hate others for.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-33839351752564203252010-08-01T16:21:20.754-06:002010-08-01T16:21:20.754-06:00Wow.
Now I'm hooked on your story.
Thank you...Wow.<br /><br />Now I'm hooked on your story.<br /><br />Thank you for trusting your readers enough to share such personal information.<br /><br />p2pAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-44436425253446565802010-08-01T15:58:05.988-06:002010-08-01T15:58:05.988-06:00I knew for years that there was one track that ran...I knew for years that there was one track that ran through my mind which wasn't exactly me. It was the track I would access when I would put together 'risk assessments'. I had to learn to censor this track when working with clients, but having 'inside' knowledge helped immensely with their therapy.<br /><br />I used to think of it as my "St Thomas More" track. After the entire year of daily Mass it was like I jumped tracks. I not only had the information track but I could jump time, do shamanic journey, participate in mind blowing healings--both physical and mental, and manifest or un manifest stuff occasionally. What was interesting about all this, I could very seldom do any of this on my own initiative but I was a fairly clean energy chanel for Who ever it was that was doing the real thing.<br /><br />It really does take 'two or more' just like Jesus said. The thing is the 'two or more' are not limited to two humans.colkochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03432916690101599393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383701632927065467.post-86825650838364223162010-08-01T14:07:44.693-06:002010-08-01T14:07:44.693-06:00I'm intrigued by one thing especially in today...I'm intrigued by one thing especially in today's "chapter" of the story - the inner prompting to carry out an action (in your case, daily Mass). And that reminds me of something that goes back about 6 years for me. And that is bowing. I had this strong urge, almost a compulsion, to bow to icons - as well as people. I began to bow to the icons, privately. I still do that. I needed to do it first thing in the morning (still do). That was the easy part. One can bow over and over - privately - to an icon. But to withhold one's near-compulsion to do so toward people - in public - that was difficult!<br /><br />I eventually began to bow with my hands together, like a Hindu, I suppose. As a Thank-You. Then later as a greeting.<br /><br />It really blew me away, when I finally moved over to the Orthodox, that people bow to icons all the time! You can bow during Liturgy any time you like. <br /><br />When I first saw someone venerate the icons and then turn around and BOW to the people in an Orthodox setting, that - for me - was like a revelation and a liberation.<br /><br />I honestly think that taking up the habit of bowing to the icons every morning - at the very least - multiple bows - had a powerful impact on me. I think it must have changed something within me. I think it powerfully affected me on every level. It was a precursor, I am sure.<br /><br />Not only that, I am also sure that there is a connection between bowing to the icons and the desire to bow to people as well. Spiritual people are LIVING ICONS. And to bow to someone is, I think, a participation in living out one's own "icon" <i>calling</i>.<br /><br />So, without realizing it, I believe I was "given" a calling to carry out actions prior to actually understanding where that was leading, where I needed to go. <br /><br />And I thank you, Colleen, for sharing your own journey here. Because you brought this to mind for me. There are many stepping-stones along the way of each person's path. To think that God leads each one of us! Uniquely! Personally! Right away that tells me that a top-down, dictatorial edict for the spiritual life can never work. We need ways of coming together - Eucharist as the fertile ground out of which the church constitutes itself anew at each Liturgy, as a primary example. But we also need to heed the inner voice, the personal promptings, the spiritual call of a scripture passage or icon or person or event, the power, for example, of someone sharing their story as you have shared yours. (And in a sense my personal blog is such a sharing - little stepping stones, left in a wood - not for others to follow but perhaps as catalysts.)<br /><br />I am glad I found the Orthodox. For me, it fits. I wasn't just "led" to the Orthodox, it was more forceful than that Indeed the first time I ever talked to my current pastor, I described it as "dragged" - "I was dragged here" - I said to him.TheraPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17684120043427738135noreply@blogger.com