March 24, 2026

Sundown 03

Psyche is known best via intuition and dreams (Both nighttime dreams and day dreams). Psyche makes herself known to us in these ways, and becomes known herself. What has always been referred to as “the presence of God” is exactly the same thing as “the presence of Psyche.” I prefer “Psyche” to “God” because there is no theology to skew the experience of Psyche, or the expectations that could be built up around Psyche.

Psyche is ALL about the experience of Psyche, the knowledge of Psyche, NOT “faith in Psyche,” or “belief in Psyche,” or “theology about Psyche.” Psyche is a living entity that is available to us as a “Thou” in a much more personal way that “God” could ever be shrouded in Theology as “God” always must be.

Psyche is ALL experience. We encounter her at every turn. The flow of life and being was called “Tao” between 500 and 5,000 years before Jesus was born. Experienced as the movement of life, the way things move, happen, occur, and. how the way we live, our life itself, can be experienced as having a life of its own. And if we play with this experience with our imagination, our life itself can take on a sacred, holy, Devine, aspect that would not be too far from what Jesus was talking about with his “The Father and I are one.” And, “When you have seen me, you have seen the Father.” And his statement, “When you have done it or failed to do it to the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done it, or failed to do it, unto me,” identifying himself with all of us and identifying himself also with God. Easily done from the stand point of our own experience/imagination of ourselves experiencing our life as having a life of its own which we do not direct consciously but experience unconsciously as the work of Psyche all the way.

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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