Comments on: The Spirituality of Not http://anamchara.com/2007/10/26/the-spirituality-of-not/ The fullness of joy is to behold God in all. — Julian of Norwich Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:33:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Yvonne http://anamchara.com/2007/10/26/the-spirituality-of-not/#comment-3183 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:11:32 +0000 http://anamchara.com/2007/10/26/the-spirituality-of-not/#comment-3183 I’m trying to forgive the charismatics and the Plymouth Brethren for the damage they did to my psyche, but it’s hard work. I sympathise.

]]> By: Ken http://anamchara.com/2007/10/26/the-spirituality-of-not/#comment-2988 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:27:12 +0000 http://anamchara.com/2007/10/26/the-spirituality-of-not/#comment-2988 Carl,

I had a similar experience as a teenager. After receiving “baptism of the Holy Spirit” from a married couple who were Charismatics, I told my Missouri Synod Lutheran pastor and he strongly discouraged me from pursuing it further. Eventually I left the Lutheran church and had a journey similar to yours experiencing a wide variety of traditions. I am now a Unitarian Universalist (UU) for 5 years and love my local congregation. My whole family are all conventional christians who at our recent family reunion in Georgia were talking about how we have to believe in Jesus to go to heaven after we die. I am also working on “transcending an including” my spiritual heritage of Lutheranism and evangelical christianity. It has been difficult to engage in conversation with my father and other relatives about spiritual matters. It is like we live on different planets. Thank you for the interesting article I wish you well on your journey,
Ken

]]> By: Peter http://anamchara.com/2007/10/26/the-spirituality-of-not/#comment-2974 Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:14:39 +0000 http://anamchara.com/2007/10/26/the-spirituality-of-not/#comment-2974 Carl,

In our recent web experience on The Starfish and the Spider, Mike gently exhorted me when I was making one of my political anti-something-or-other rants with the wisdom of Ken Wilber: “transcend and include.” I may be at a similar place as you are in this process as it relates to our religious past: spending many years and huge energy on the “transcend” portion of the task–as you quoted Wilber, necessarily differentating ourselves from what we have left behind–and perhaps at length coming to the point of feeling the need to do the spiritual work necessary to have closure on the “include” part. This probably includes looking for the positive (what we have in common) and using this as a basis for communicating as much as we can, without losing the distinctiveness of what we have discovered in the process of our own conscious evolution.
May God bless you as you seek to re-integrate from your “dissociation” and function effectively as a healed, whole expression of what He has uniquely created you to be.
Blessings in Jesus,
Peter

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