August 09, 2024 – B

Iconic Zion — The Virgin and the Watchman, 2006 — Zion National Park, Springdale, Utah
Who we are
and the way we do
what we do
are inseparable.

The way habitual intuition
and enlightenment/awakening/liberation
are inseparable.

Integrity is bound with/to intuition.
When we are at-one with our intuition,
we are at-one with who we are.

When we are enlightened
we are "born again,"
and are ourselves,
finally, at last.

Which is, of course,
and amounts to,
a dying to ourselves--
to our old way of being in the world,
"as a snake sheds its skin,"
"as the moon sheds its shadow,"
we cannot be who we are
without ceasing to be
who we have been.

Every transition is a death.
Every birth is a burial.
The symbols/metaphors
surrounding our coming to ourselves,
to our intuition,
are already there in the church of our childhood,
just needing a re-interpretation
to apply to our new life beyond theology/doctrine/
dogma/dharma...

Just waiting for a new hermenutic
to be put into place--
a new way of framing who we are
and what we are doing,
and how we are to do it.

The prophets of the new age
are about to take the stage--
which is where they have been,
and what they have been doing,
for the last 2,024 years.

Starting with the Gnostics,
who were killed for saying
what I am saying
because saying/seeing what is to be
said/seen is a threat to
the established/comfortable
ways of saying/seeing.

Waking up takes a long time,
sometimes, no?
And, sometimes,
it is "just like that" (Snaps fingers,
laughing).

Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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