God, for our pantheists, is experienced in some vaguely
mystical way as the absence of personal reality, as the losing of oneself in some kind of divine oceanic whole.
Not exact matches
Of their very nature those blessed passivities which are my will to be, my inclination to be thus or thus, and the chances given me to attain to my own completion in the
way I desire, all are charged with your influence — an influence which I shall come before long to see more clearly
as the organizing force of your
mystical Body.
Rejoice with me Jesus paid my frightful price — Took me to Him — Into HIS
Mystical Body — That we shared in life the same tormented cry; He had walked in His
Way the same streets
as I — Insane — I was never at a total loss; I KNEW the Blessed Mother choose my Cross In Her maternal love for me and for us all; THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION — Conceived In LOVE such a Holy Cross for me; Through Mary Jesus was someone I could serve — She knew it was the Cross that I deserved And so did I — for over a quarter of a century I stood with Her at Calvary — a wretched sentry With the Communion of Saints, and Blessed Kateri Till Easter came for me -
We have not created a comfortable peaceful world on adhering to
mystical, unproven notions
as if they are the «truth»... While rationality / logic in the
way we understand it colloquially is never successful alone..
On the
way he uncovers some treasures which have been underused in criticism, such
as Tolkien's description of a
mystical experience he had while attending a Forty Hours devotion, an experience that fed into his vision of angels and subsequent characterisation of the Elvish in LOTR.
David L. Miller, recently reviewing my book The Chickadees in The Christian Century (May 22), has suggested that,
as in ancient Greece, «there are two paths in our time, alternative mythologies for a period of crisis: up and out (the rational, heroic, masculine
way), and down and in (the mad,
mystical, feminine
way).»
F. C. Happold, for example, in his Religious Faith and Twentieth - Century Man, published in 1966, spoke of the
mystical «
as as a
way out of the spiritual dilemma of modern man.»
As Seerveld points out, «Generation after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical trut
As Seerveld points out, «Generation after generation of Christian scholars kept reading past the obvious sense of what was before them and spent their sanctified ingenuity ascertaining the hidden «spiritual» meaning of the words, so
as to lead the inexperienced laity into the way of mystical trut
as to lead the inexperienced laity into the
way of
mystical truth.
Their
ways of doing this are most varied, ranging from a sense of acting in accordance with the «rightness in things» (
as in much Chinese religion), through a
mystical identification of the deepest self or atman with the cosmic reality or brahma (
as in Hinduism), or a «blowing - out» of individual selfhood by sharing in the bliss of Nirvana (
as in most varieties of Buddhism), to the sense of fellowship or communion with God found in our own Jewish - Christian religious tradition.
As we have argued previously, the revelation of mystery occurs also in the
mystical, silent, and active
ways of religion.
Will we affirm the sufficiency of Scripture — that the Bible is all we need for life and doctrine — or will we demand that God reveal himself to us in other
ways, such
as mystical raptures?»
Expressing
as they do the different
ways in which the Triune life of God flows into the soul, they both facilitate the
mystical union with Christ in the power of the Spirit.
It is present in a liberal cult of Jesus and of «the Jesus
way of life»; present also in
mystical forms
as the cultivation of personal companionship with the divine Christ.
Whether or not Jung may truly be identified
as a Gnostic (and he has so identified himself on numerous occasions), there is nothing in what he describes
as individuation that is not far more fully present in classical
mystical ways of both the East and West.
But have we not long since learned that the great poetic visionaries of the modern West have employed a non-Christian
mystical language and symbolism
as a
way to the center of a uniquely modern immanence?
In some
ways Cage represents an attack on the whole Renaissance conception of self - consciousness, and an adoption of a kind of secular -
mystical idea of self
as an enemy that must be removed before one can delight in the world for its own sake.
Your delusion of a
mystical land that you'll get a one
way, first class airline ticket to is probably not the fimest foundation to define your grandios expectation
as a sound doctrine.
So, Armstrong explains that the fundamental experience of the Trinitarian God isn't personal at all, and that the
mystical God absorbs himself (or herself) in some undifferentiated
way to creation
as a whole.
Instead of following the Greek - influenced idea of orthodoxy
as right belief... the emerging community is helping us to rediscover the more Hebraic and
mystical notion of the orthodox Christian
as one who believes in the right
way - that is, believing in a loving, sacrificial and Christlike manner.»
«My family meets every October at the Windsor Court Hotel it's a
mystical place that makes you feel
as if you have been whisked back in time to an ancient Castle, and from the moment you arrive the staff treats you
as if you are Royalty... They are always looking for
ways to make your stay is a little more magical».
For, the first chapters of the Book of Genesis were never meant to be taken
as history or science,
as «eyewitness» accounts, either of God or of someone impossibly «interviewing» God, but
as a spiritual, theological, and
mystical statement about God's relationship with the world;
as an «aetiological myth,» to use Rahner's phrase, that provides an explanation, based on the human author's contemporary experience, of how things must have gotten to be the
way we see them.
o Demystifying kundalini o Exploration and experience of your central channel aka sushumna nadi o Understanding chakras
as way to understand our tendencies o Balancing energy channels and polarities in body and mind (nadis) o Everyday application of dual / non-dual philosophies o The
mystical endocrine system and how the glands relate to our chakras o The path from agni (fire) to tejas (radiance) to sri (seeing the world
as beauty and bliss) o Healing techniques and worldview to support your transformation
as you live in the real world o The power of yoga nidra
There's Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp), doing his foppish, gay rock god
as he Harold Lloyds his
way out of an audience with the King and newly - minted (and freshly peg - legged) privateer Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) before reuniting with one - time flame Angelica (Ginger the Chicken Run chicken), who's in league with nefarious Blackbeard (Ian McShane) en route to the
mystical Fountain of Youth.
Writers Steve Faber and Bob Fisher devise a number of clever
ways to extend the joke of Wedding Crashers beyond the mere hit - and - run pleasures their characters derive, from having John and Jeremy bet on quoted scripture and ceremonial music (Johan Pachelbel's Canon in D, Richard Wagner's Wedding March Processional, etc.) to having them bound together by a leave - no - crasher - behind credo with all sorts of other rider attachments that eventually leads to a cameo by fellow Frat Pack member Ferrell
as Chazz, the sort of
mystical patriarch of this culture of uninvited party - hopping.
: Having skillfully blended ethnic instruments with the orchestra for a tiny, tiger - holding rowboat in «Life of Pi,»
as well
as given
way more of a
mystical Celtic spin to the knights of the round table, it's easy to see the ancient - sounding credentials that the Dannas have brought to the Mouse House that could evoke the «real» music of the prehistoric era.
The overgrown, ornate ruins of
mystical man - made structures, cracking and crumbling under the pressure of both heroes» weighty adventures, made their
way into both games —
as did the dark shadowy force said ruins barely contain.
And much like that game, I'd be lying if I said I didn't somewhat enjoy playing
as Mario's dino companion once again
as I ventured through
mystical settings, eating up strange looking enemies and converting them into deadly egg arterially, which I used to fire at other baddies that stood in my
way.
Along the
way you'll meet quirky characters and
mystical creatures
as you solve original puzzles and challenging mini-games.
Smith writes: «In effect, Mr. Ryman has spent his career circling Point A, proving that there are an infinite number of
ways to meet painting's basic requirements... It helps to think of Mr. Ryman
as a kind of philosopher - carpenter with an inborn, almost
mystical love of paint
as paint.
But in the background of this stunning tableau, if you meditate closely on the painting, you will see a portrait of a powerful, other - worldly female figure, almost larger than life, with large bright eyes, wearing a turban, sharply observing everything,
as if she herself were keeping all the other elements in balance, in some
mystical powerful
way.
The contrast between his early visionary depictions of
mystical trees and beings, and the paintings that stand
as some of the most memorable images of war ever made, is emphatic, underlining perhaps that Nash was not a «natural» artist in the
way that contemporaries like Stanley Spencer certainly were.
In exploring the visual connections between numbers — exact and absolute units of measurements — and the
mystical, wayward
ways of luck,
as embodied by locals performing for her camera, Cromwell offers a lyric homage to Cuba, the place that's shaped her practice and that continues defying expectations and interpretations.
Repetition
as a form of meditation gives
way to a
mystical experience.