tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2429770690071819246..comments2024-03-28T20:04:20.286-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Psychopathology and PneumopathologyGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40842826116336329202017-09-11T17:47:18.995-07:002017-09-11T17:47:18.995-07:00Julie - good to hear you are ok.Julie - good to hear you are ok.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994306709948231112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27169447372158370852017-09-11T17:31:57.416-07:002017-09-11T17:31:57.416-07:00Rick, that was a lovely link - thanks.
We missed ...Rick, that was a lovely link - thanks.<br /><br />We missed Communion yesterday. On the way to church, a tire shredded. Funny - though we didn't make it in, even so we knew the Lord has been with us all this way. Had t blown the day before, who knows where we would have been stranded with our puny spare.<br /><br />Hopefully, next Sunday we will be back home, celebrating the Eucharist in our own community instead.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-59608914020745685592017-09-11T13:20:11.788-07:002017-09-11T13:20:11.788-07:00Leslie - it recalls this excellent little gem from...Leslie - it recalls this excellent little gem from Bishop Barron:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVLBUK5FGwRickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994306709948231112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90720073256370663882017-09-11T12:36:06.837-07:002017-09-11T12:36:06.837-07:00Good point, Rick! I imagine most of us struggle wi...Good point, Rick! I imagine most of us struggle with this hard teaching of Jesus. I remember when I was fairly new to the Church, it dawned on me slowly that Holy Communion was the focal point of Mass. This was different than any religious service I'd ever been to. I have been praying to understand it better each time I go to Mass. <br /><br />It's both clear as can be in the Scriptures, but as weird and uncomfortable, as well. But if God wants to strengthen us, if He wants us to be open to Him, and if we are to be in Communion together as a Church with Him, it begins to seem like it's so crazy, it just might work.<br /><br />Leslie GLeslie Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794375005614166921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52206721688353374342017-09-10T09:04:02.546-07:002017-09-10T09:04:02.546-07:00Thank you. Must also be why Paul speaks of the th...Thank you. Must also be why Paul speaks of the the whole creation groaning and suffering up to the present time... I suppose communion works both ways: just as the divine is materialized, matter is divinized.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-78446677741077275992017-09-10T05:55:50.494-07:002017-09-10T05:55:50.494-07:00Thanks Bob.
The Christian ritual of communion is e...Thanks Bob.<br />The Christian ritual of communion is essentially the spirit lowering itself to flesh.<br />It's still a shocking description (to me at least) to hear "eat my flesh". That I must do it. It's so striking that it doesn't sound symbolic the way it's said and by Who says it. He says it as if He couldn't be more clear. You are "red pilled" as the youngsters say.<br />But without the Spirit becoming part of our very metabolism, down to every every Atom, we are lost.<br />How could it be otherwise?<br /><br />Incidentally, all your posts are excellent. But some posts are more excellent than others.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994306709948231112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67762454122443616802017-09-09T12:30:39.892-07:002017-09-09T12:30:39.892-07:00stirring without constructive result that guides t...stirring without constructive result that guides to a source of water that quenches the thirst of the soul is useless. Wordless consciousness is very deliberate and considerate in selecting the spirit that carries the proper words to express the wordless meanings, the spirit that gives its flashes to those who possess pure hearts. The stories of all prophets and sages are indicative. Spirit is the carrier of the proper words for carrying the intended meaning. That is why there is revelation to save humanity from the mess of the horizontal language. Honesty and truth, beauty and goodness are the <br /> divine criteria for life and not these humans fabricated labels that get us no where but to an increased distortions and confusion. Once the watching conscious god is denied and people are taught that there is only this life and let us enjoy it and let us not trust the books of old prophets and their fairy tales of divine reward and punishment. Let us compete, steal and exploit and say truth is only with us and all others are prevented by god to have truth like us. God is man and man is god and any other assertion is blasphemous. We are only the possessors of truth. Heart of darkness that has caused all these blunders and people are in heedless abode that Harvey and Irma are stupid natural outburst that have no warning messages. It is no use to argue with those who think the building has no foundation and the world has no creator. It is a time where the truth of the spirit will be revealed and teach a severe lesson for those who have excessded things and violated all limits. They say there in no good in their dialogues save those who call for good deed ,charity and reconciliation among people. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02180761762279054000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14086316041431524752017-09-09T09:10:25.575-07:002017-09-09T09:10:25.575-07:00In Vedanta there is a kind of descent that goes fr...In Vedanta there is a kind of descent that goes from Atman to various "sheaths" below, i.e., intellectual, psychological, bio-psychic, anatomical/material. It seems to flow in the direction of nonlocal --> local. <br /><br />However, Christian metaphysics posits a unity of soul and body, or spirit and matter, which is why it is such a big deal that the word becomes flesh. I read the other day that the reason this was emphasized was because of the manichean objection that spirit and flesh are at antipodes, and that spirit would never lower itself to identifying with fallen matter.<br /><br />In contemporary psychoanalysis there are the categories of self and ego, the self being more subjective and "whole," the ego being more a local function of family, culture, and contingency. <br /><br />We probably need a complementary view that combines the emanationism of the east with the incarnationism of the west.... Like wave and particle.... vertical and horizontal....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-19283966634778092542017-09-09T08:58:33.705-07:002017-09-09T08:58:33.705-07:00Apropos of nothing, it just occurred to me that th...Apropos of nothing, it just occurred to me that the majority of typos in my posts are due to an over-aggressive spellchecker that attacks words that don't need to be changed. As such, it's like a virtual autoimmune disorder. And I have it bad, being that words I make up are instantly attacked by this ruthless linguistic do-gooder. <br /><br />As to "spirit," I know. Too saturated. Everyone thinks they know what it means, but it means something different to everyone. Therefore it is more a carrier of "noise" than stable and unambiguous meaning. <br /><br />As to which goes first, that deserves a whole post, at least: when man falls, exactly where is the booboo? Agree about the vulnerability, which is clearly a function of freedom....Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6962302072984991152017-09-09T04:18:38.034-07:002017-09-09T04:18:38.034-07:00Excellent post.
"Such a headline begs for a ...Excellent post.<br /><br />"Such a headline begs for a psychological interpretation, but that would be too easy. Besides, we're well beyond what psychology can explain, although, at the same time, I think we need both views -- the psychological and spiritual.."<br /><br />Wish we had a better term than "spiritual" here. Since many these days throw that term around in new age ways as an improved replacement for what we mean by religion proper, tradition, knowledge and serious seaker relationship with one's Creator. Not just mood music, aroma therapy, and drum circles. The term no longer conveys what it used to.<br /><br />Btw, of the mental illness category we're interested in, which goes (falls) first, the spirit or the psyche? So many times we discuss leftism as a grand conspiracy, but really is it more like a grand vulnerability ... to the one who would love you to think he doesn't exist?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12994306709948231112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85403092952545307822017-09-08T11:02:50.788-07:002017-09-08T11:02:50.788-07:00Your well-written post comes across as a complaint...Your well-written post comes across as a complaint about the prevailing mores of our time, and a nostalgia for the more noble past. <br /><br />And you blame the leftist for the changes.<br /><br />This same type of grumpiness is always seen as time moves on, complaints about new-fangled motorcars, lawless juvenile delinquents, flappers, drinking, jazz, drive-in movie theaters where necking can occur, non-chaperoned teen parties, pot-smoking, etc, etc, etc.<br /><br />Those damn jazz musicians, hippies, commies. Kids these days.<br /><br />Surely you can see the timeless genre of discontent reflected in your post? Yes? No?<br /> <br />I only write this because I'm not sure you receive feedback on your work other than silence or comments from those of like mind. I know your book has been reviewed, but your blog deserve the attention of an honest critic, because it is, in fact, that good.<br /><br />I get your peeve about the pathology of leftist idealogy, which you enjoy running into the ground repeatedly. I think your readers really like their daily dose of dirt, which refreshes their sense of being right with the Lord.<br /><br />But what you never seem to write about is what you'd like to see happen, your vision for a proper civilization, how that would look, and how you see our future out to the next several hundred years. Obviously you care. What should the ultimate Bobsmos under God look like?<br /><br />Thanks, a committed fan. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com