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Sometimes
you read something that readjusts
your thinking.
You know, the
way one of those old Kodak
viewfinders moved you onto a new picture when you pushed down the lever at the side.
I really like
the analogy of finding God in the
shit. Jungians believe that is the path to individuation and I have to say that I agree. I don't see individuation as a goal. At least not for me - the pile of shit I have to integrate will take 1000 lifetimes to work through. It's a process.
But her
words got me thinking about baptism
and what it could possibly mean to an Episcopagan.
Is it enough
to know that such ideas as Martha's
are floating about beneath the rigid veneer of the church? I don't know if it makes me feel any more warm and fuzzy about Christianity but I am grateful that at least in 2016 she won't be burned at the stake ...
because such ideas give me
hope.
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Monday, 11 January 2016
Baptism and The Episcopagen
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Thanks for the link to this article, I enjoyed it. I think any spiritual thought is enriched by a good dose of Jungian understanding!
ReplyDeleteWhat struck me in particular about her article had more to do with the concept of guilt. I don't think guilt is natural to humans but is socially constructed and taught to us. We have to learn how to be guilty just as we learn other negative emotions, like hatred or bigotry. And any person or institution that teaches us to be guilty (e.g. church, advertising industry, etc) is doing so in order to control us more easily.
That is the most interesting thing I've ever run across about baptism. I think we are all surrounded, immersed, in guilt in different ways depending on the society we live in, the community we grow up in, the family we're born into, the schools we attend, the culture we are a part of, etc. That being said, I agree with Debra. Guilt is taught.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree - guilt is learned, but you know although she comes pretty darn close to it I couldn't find a place where she actually says she thinks we are born with guilt. She called it a basic human 'impulse' not instinct. Tiny difference, I know. hmmm
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Francie. She did tiptoe around that question. And the origin of guilt wasn't really the point of her article, I know. I was just off on my own tangent, LOL! As usual?
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