Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
What is your experience of That Which Has Always Been Called God?
It dwells in the borderland between physical and psychic reality.
It may be experienced as a dream state of being, or as intuition.
A time when things just "Clicked" into place.
A series of events that came together to "arrange" an encounter that transformed your life.
A realization that came out of nowhere.
"Something that can be experienced but not understood, understood but not explained" (R.D. Laing).
We all have experiences that belong to the "idea of God," and are the origin of our idea of God--the origin of God.
The experiences are real and "God" is our explanation of them.
Exploring the reality of That Which Has Always Been Called God takes us into "the world between words," between physics and psyche. A world that can be "experienced but not understood, understood but not explained," because words cannot go there, and "God" is the best we can do.
That world has been called "Psychoid" by Carl Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, and they saw "the Collective Unconscious" as belonging to that world, along with intuitive and paranormal experiences, the occult, the supernatural, the magical, witch-craft and sorcery, ouija boards and astrology...
Something funny is going on that we can feel, sense, know but cannot understand or talk about. "God" is as close as we can come. And "that which has always been called 'God'" is the best I can do.
What is your experience of that phenomenon? How has it impacted your life?
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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