I am not that far and maybe will stop by  Thanks for the idea!.  

Two things stood out for me in Father Thomas Keating's talk that were profound understandings: that the Big Bang was some enormous energy that overcome gravity and blew it apart can be seen metaphysically as the Divine overcoming the limitations of a smaller conception represented by gravity.  Also when he says:  ''time is some ...

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Mark, i am excited for you; i hope you will write about your experience here.  I wanted to go to this so badly, but the money just wasnt jelling at this time.  I went to sign up and then copped out so many times, it filled up while i was waffling.  I am thinking it is going to be really great and am getting a good lesson in ...

Arthur's talk with Ken says that fear is the primary mood of the separate self sense; when i look at my own contractions i didnt see fear but saw anger and sorrow...so this got addressed in glass half full. Curious how to transcend that feeling of self defense that arises when their is a genuine need to protect yourself from what someone ...

Arthur's talk with Ken says that fear is the primary mood of the separate self sense; when i look at my own contractions i didnt see fear but saw anger and sorrow...so this got addressed in glass half full. Curious how to transcend that feeling of self defense that arises when their is a genuine need to protect yourself from what someone ...

Arthur's talk with Ken says that fear is the primary mood of the separate self sense; when i look at my own contractions i didnt see fear but saw anger and sorrow...so this got addressed in glass half full. Curious how to transcend that feeling of self defense that arises when their is a genuine need to protect yourself from what someone ...

Jondavi, thank you for clarifying the distinction that Patrick was making between absolutistic thinking and the Absolute.  That makes sense.... that the experience of truth and the conception of the truth would be the difference that saves us from dogma.  If your experience is coming from second tier and mine is coming from first tier, do

That struck me when Patrick described Absolutistic thinking as infantilistic. Is that part of a cognitive developmental line?  It stood out to me also that ''the non-conceptual is not the same as pure emptiness if only because the narcissism is hidden inside the intersubjective structures.''  God, my first thought was how to ...

I loved this talk.  It was interesting to me when Father Thomas Keating explains that even if you think you are unworthy to be God, it doesnt matter because you dont have any say in the matter; ''You'' being the separate self sense.  It is  also interesting that he explains Adam and Eve's fall  with this concept of the separate ...