tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8761315778490026027..comments2024-03-29T06:03:45.545-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Middle Earth and the Cosmic PalaceGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8414047999016822652016-08-31T05:25:16.778-07:002016-08-31T05:25:16.778-07:00Interesting blog post by Bishop Barron, and confir...Interesting <a href="http://www.wordonfire.org/resources/article/apologists-catechists-theologians-wake-up/5257/" rel="nofollow">blog post by Bishop Barron</a>, and confirms why blogs like this are so important. Looks like scientism is winning with the youth, and "for every one person who joins the Catholic Church today, six are leaving", because lack of intellectual rigor and understanding.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-54608469345242954392016-08-30T21:50:16.966-07:002016-08-30T21:50:16.966-07:00The imaginal tool is the most important tool that ...The imaginal tool is the most important tool that helps the human to bring harmony to the inter-functioning of both the sensual sphere and the intellectual sphere, at the same time it curbs and curtails the excesses of these spheres and brings them to work in collaboration to serve the spiritual errand of the human on this earth, the catch however is that this in between sphere can not be activated without the help of the spiritual world and this is the whole message of religion. <br />I hope I am clear in what I want to say. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180761762279054000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30724811273559059402016-08-30T13:04:39.688-07:002016-08-30T13:04:39.688-07:00One of the points of his philosophy is to demonstr...<i>One of the points of his philosophy is to demonstrate that the ideal of strict objectivity is an unrealizable abstraction, and that we can only know that from which we are not detached.</i><br /><br />This reminds me of what I saw trying to study psychology in the '70s -- looking under the lamppost for the car keys. The whole point of psychology seemed to me to find out how my mind was working and how that differed from how it was supposed to work. Instead, the only research that could be done involved denying that any thing like a mind existed. <br /><br />Alternatively, we could sit in a circle with Mr. (Carl) Rogers and talk about our feelings and whether or not we were congruent.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-86151770239946312652016-08-30T12:01:54.747-07:002016-08-30T12:01:54.747-07:00From an aesthetic experience one returns as from a...<i>From an aesthetic experience one returns as from a sighting of numinous footprints.<br />&<br />Allusion is the only way to express what is intimate without distorting it.</i><br /><br />On first reading this today, I was reminded of how our culture pushes the very opposite of this - for instance, with pornography, which shows far too many of the facts while providing nothing whatsoever to do with pro-creation.<br /><br />Then I read <a href="http://www.bookwormroom.com/2016/08/28/liberal-arts-colleges-making-young-adults-mentally-ill-warning-nsfw/" rel="nofollow">this little offering of "facts," "intimacy," and "aesthetic" appeal</a> (of some sort, though I couldn't say what) being provided to incoming Freshmen at an unnamed but apparently expensive liberal arts college. Truly, an experience that does leave footprints, but diabolical ones rather than numinous. Anyone with kids entering college should pay careful attention.<br /><br />Having seen what her kid is in for, I don't know how Bookworm could actually bring herself to leave her daughter there. What course of study could possibly make the rest of the experience worthwhile?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84393289221678452212016-08-30T09:18:04.953-07:002016-08-30T09:18:04.953-07:00That would go to all rituals, which "embody&q...That would go to all rituals, which "embody" or "enact" the space.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59902506794489864892016-08-30T09:11:03.155-07:002016-08-30T09:11:03.155-07:00Speaking of middle space and clothing and such, th...Speaking of middle space and clothing and such, this recalls the visions of Juan Diego and the shroud of Turin. I mean, if people are changed (including physically) by experiences in middle space, why not inanimate things which were in the muddle too? The more time I spends searching the meaning of things (scripture certainly counts) these kinds of experience/events and their artIfacts seem less and less strange.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994306709948231112noreply@blogger.com