This entry was posted on November 15, 2007. It was filed under Christian mysticism .

5 Responses

1. friarjohn

   Done.

   November 15, 2007 at 1:51 pm
   
2. seraphimsigrist

   I will also put it here

   I prefer live journal inasmuch anyway as I do not have
   time to link and attend blogs and have of course some
   940 people to attend to here so having written the response
   there I will also put it here for any nonblog people and
   for any back and forth on it …but I would be interested
   in your response to the question of books changing life
   I raise. is my case unique in this or special? doubt it?
   of course there are books I have liked a great deal
   including spiritual ones
   I guess to fill out the response on one point ,edmund fuller
   wrote a book of lit crit called “books with men behind them”
   so it is with a spiritual book…I would like to have more
   books like those of frere roger of taize not so much for
   their content, in his case as in many he has certain intuitions
   which reappear every thime, but for his deep and so fully
   realized personhood standing behind it and creating and
   making legitimate so much in the world…
   or Jean Vanier still with us…or Alexander Men or John Paul II
   or so many others of course. But it is the persons ,those who
   in their person open ways, whom one wishes more of and now
   my reply and question.

   Mysticism relates to the personal relation to God of
   a person and to the experience and awareness of that
   realtion. I have read of course very extensively in this
   area but while there have been books which were
   interesting and somehow important to me I do not
   believe any were ‘life changing’ I think for one thing
   Graham Greene got it about right that as to life forming
   books those we read in childhood are perhaps the most
   important. My mother read to me among other things
   pilgrim’s progress and alice in wonderland these perhaps
   verified intuiitions I already had of the world. When I found
   poems I had written at age four and five and six I was a
   little surprised in these (parentally typed) pretty much
   the thoughts I have had since
   “I will sing you a song of the wonder of the world”
   and at age four
   ” I woke up very early
   And I saw the dark
   Running along behind the trees.
   Then I saw a little door
   Open in a cloud
   And the sun walked in. “
   I am perplexed as to how, having really attained no further deep
   intuitions, a book could be said to have changed my life?

   November 15, 2007 at 1:55 pm
   
3. seraphimsigrist

   The sort of book that I would like to see written

   I suppose as to books that one would like to see written
   I should say that well …
   of the sort of
   The Unknowable(Unfathomable) of Nicholas da Kusa
   Reality and Man Simeon Frank

   if seems to me that the thought of these books,
   deep and mystical, is fully appropriate to the
   time that is coming in a particular way of opening
   out theology. the changable changed one could say
   the same of the writings of Frere Roger of Taize.
   I would also say that the essay
   Fireflies at Dusk:The Wisdom of Solomon and Theosis
   by John Chico Martin
   fits this description and is a tour de force.
   I would be interested in your response to it?
   I have sent it to Princeton Theological Review
   and of course it is in our developing book at
   http://www.lulu.com/content/1310761
   and though imperfect as to line breaks at my journal
   http://seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com/576844.html

   again I would be most interested in your thought on it??

   November 15, 2007 at 5:25 pm
   
4. Carl McColman

   Another comment made from my RSS feed:

   http://barbarakelley.livejournal.com/252355.html

   November 17, 2007 at 6:36 pm
   
5. Anonymous

   Hi,

   I am so glad I’ve found you. In November 2006 I decided that I could no longer function without some form of spirituality in my life. Having been raised a Catholic but having rejected the church for a long while I looked long and hard at alternative religions and came back to one thing. I approved and believed in many of the messages of Neo-Paganism but I trusted much of what I’d been taught as a child. I believe in one God.

   Now I am trying to combine the things I hold dear and the Spiritual truths I have learned from many traditions, (I am a teacher living in east London and so have a number of faiths being practiced around me,) into a coherent practice that can be lived everyday and that enhances the spirituality of both myself and my family.

   I hope that by friending you and communities that you are involved with and by reading the website you will further add to my journey,

   Thank-you for your time,

   Love and light

   Juliana

   August 3, 2008 at 9:02 pm