If you are spiritual you cannot ignore the flesh
you cannot pretend we don’t need the body
to live/breathe/move/see/hear/think/contemplate God
without the body and its senses there would be no spirituality
contemplation allows us to connect scriptures to life
to see how the God who liberated the Israelites
from slavery
wants to liberate us
from slavery
to addictions/codependency/consumerism/victimhood
however, “Shame and aggression are central
in the human psyche, particularly men –
and these are the universal ‘original wounds’
not ‘original sins’ – and they are hard to shake”
– Otto Rank
but prayer heals
and translates religion/doctrines/dogma
into vital spirituality
and we pray in the first person
subject-to-subject
our soul to God’s soul
we say, “Lord, I am sad/joyful”
not “Lord, he/she/it is sad/joyful”
Carl Jung’s personal myth of meaning
which he also found expressed in the Western Mystics
was the myth that God needs us
to become more and more conscious
so that God can become conscious of the whole
which is what the Spirit is leading us to
the core of spiritual experience
is the same in all religions:
unity consciousness
which is not a phantasmagoric mystical experience
but rather a life-changing sense
of the unity of all things –
no more separation
we are all one
with God/others/ourselves
the whole Creation.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 