Here is a basic theological formula: a deity is a personification of a spiritual power. And deities who are not recognized become demonic; they become dangerous. When you have not been in communication with them, whether messages have gone unheard or unheeded, and when they do, inevitably, breakthrough, your conscious life is overthrown. There is, . . . → Read More: A Deity is a Personification of a Spiritual Power
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Initiation – Road of Trials on the Hero's Journey There can be no question: the psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs . . . → Read More: Initiation – the Road of Trials on the Hero’s Journey C. G. Jung has pointed out, in one of his numerous discussions of modern mandalas, that whereas in the traditional but now archaic forms the central figure was a god, “now,” as he declares, “the prisoner, or the well-protected dweller in the mandala, does not seem to be a god, in as much as the . . . → Read More: Mandala as God & Self |
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