Humans are so deep
that it is easier to count the hairs on one’s head
than the emotions and passions of our hearts
and we constantly expand –
Brother Teasdale always saw the big picture
the “meta-level”
beyond the present surface chaos
and rejoiced that today
many forms of interspirituality
replaced monasteries
in fact, the Wilber-Combs Lattice*
developed by Ken Wilber and Allan Combs
explains 28 types of religious/spiritual experiences
by combining 7 stages of consciousness
throughout human history:
archaic/magic/mythic/rational/pluralistic/integral/super-integral
with 4 states of consciousness:
gross (nature mysticism)/
subtle (deity mysticism)/
causal (formless mysticism)/
nondual (unitive mysticism)
when Jesus spent the whole night in mystical-unitive prayer
he listened to God call him all night long
“Beloved”
the One Word that
totally unites us to God
accepting God’s gracious Word
awakens our conscience/illuminates our intellect/
brings us into a new relationship with God the Father/
helps us put on the mind of God the Son/
makes us sensitive to the promptings of God the Holy Spirit/
and divinizes us
Julian of Norwich wrote that we have a duty
to delight God
and one of the things that pleases Christ the most
is when we comfort ourselves
with our laughter
and our sense of humour.
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