redneck mystic & witch humor and musings
redneck mystic & witch humor and musings
While the Witch and I did some fun stuff, I stumbled across something at the Christian Mysticism Facebook page that drew me in for a spell.
Christian Mysticism
Christos Z. Konstas
How can we make “mysticism” less abstract? How to approach God mystically? Christian mysticism is supposed to equip one to seek God right? Find God and explore God within a living tangible way. For that to happen, unique, specific actions are needed. Within a specific context*.
* The context are the non-negotiables discussed in another OP. Then… There are then some things to watch out for and specific actions to pursue. The actions, and the things to watch out for, and even the non-negotiables may not be needed for an odd one off-experience, even a series of experiences. Spontaneous things happen (there are reasons for that but they are for another topic). Also there is Grace involved when we approach God. This allows things to happen outside the neat, tidy littles boxes we try to keep such matters into… also a topic for another time. But there are good reasons it is advisable one to do things a certain way and avoid certain others…
Sloan Bashinsky
I doubt anyone becomes a mystic by trying. It happens to you, or it doesn’t. If it happens to you, it’s good to know some basics, to progress and not get seriously messed up. Religion can be a gate to becomIng a mystic, and religion can really get in the way. God is beyond all religions. Evil takes special interest in mystics
Greg
Sloan Bashinsky evil does take special interest in mystics but God protects them.
Sloan Bashinsky
Greg Moulaison it is very easy for a mystic, even, to mistake Lucifer for the Holy Spirit. I know this because I was told it in a dream by Archangel Michael, and then I watched myself do it many times. And yes, something protected me despite myself, and I saw some mystics become possessed by Lucifer unawares.
Christos Z. Konstas
Sloan Bashinsky empty trying is a doubtful way
But without desire and action (ie some effort) one never has a chance
And the mystical way is not an one off experience
One has to maintain it otherwise it’s gone
Sloan Bashinsky
Christos Z. Konstas correct, a full-time job.
Adam
I really appreciate an excellent post making excellent points in a perfectly good discussion about mysticism . So please don’t feel if I disagree it’s anything other than a vague opinion among others and that I don’t feel you’ve written something good. It’s a bit like the philosophy of god as discovered by Plato on the one hand and modern media studies and structuralist analysis techniques on the other. Even Christianity has a place despite being divine revelation – I agree – in the progress of philosophy. And mysticism too. So the question is not what is true but to ask ourselves what success was inherent in and capitalised on by mysticism?
Sloan Bashinsky
Adam if you were a mystic, you would know having direct experience with the Almighty by any name called is not a philosophy, and it is incomprehensible to people who are not mystics, including Christians. Every Christian should watch the film Brother Sun Sister Moon, about Francis of Assisi becoming a mystic, and how the church responded.
Adam
Sloan Bashinsky Ok bye Sloan.
Sloan Bashinsky
Every mystic’s experience is different, I imagine because every person is different. The early Christian church didn’t seem to care much for mystics when they were alive on this world, I figure because they didn’t need the church, because they were in direct communion with what the church claimed to have sole authority over. I sometimes had Christians tell me that God stopped talking with people after the Bible was written, and I told them, if they lived in my skin a while, they might wish they had never heard of God, Jesus, angels known in the Bible.
Starting in 1981, my 49th year, I began having poems up and jump out of me as fast as I could write them. This one below seemed universal. It came in May 1995, perhaps to try to prepare me for a great upheaval ahead of me. I thought I was pretty far along when the poem came. I had only just begun, it turned out, and I’m still trying to keep up :-).
Earth-
the sacred prism
through which souls are refracted
into their elemental parts,
purified in Holy Fire,
then one-forged
and sent on their way
to not even God knows where,
simply because they are all
unique emanations of God,
evolving…
