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The struggle I talked about yesterday is a symptom of\u00a0a shift in attention in my inner life.\u00a0\u00a0When I pursued meditative and contemplative practices related to Christianity, the experience enriched and deepened me.\u00a0 When I moved away from Christianity, the only comparable practice left in my life involved Jungian analysis and the Ira Progroff journals.\u00a0 Those took me\u00a0further and, I believe, have calmed my mind’s chatter and prepared the soil for a new way, but in themselves they are not a way.<\/p>\n
Now I can feel a shift in the inner cathedral, as Progroff called it.\u00a0 The shift, under way for sometime in various manifestations, involves attunement, even atonement (at-one-ment).\u00a0 Here are the disparate pieces that float in my inner life:\u00a0my move away from metaphors of transcendence to ones of deepening, the\u00a0 Great Wheel, the Celtic Faery Faith, Jungian thought, gardening, keener appreciation of the natural world, climate change, Taoism, Asian art and culture and transcendentalism.\u00a0 Each one of these has a particular and peculiar role in deepening my inner life.\u00a0 My hope is that the stirrings I feel mean that this complex has begun to\u00a0move toward integration.<\/p>\n
In a sense I believe all this began, or began to begin, when, in a session with a spiritual director, after discussing my then new admiration for Celtic spirituality, he said, “Well, maybe you are becoming a Druid.”\u00a0 Maybe so.\u00a0 Or, more likely, something akin to a Druid, but one with a Taoist bent perhaps.\u00a0 A taoist Druid with a spading fork.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
25\u00a0 86%\u00a0 28%\u00a0 ompn SSE bar29.95 rises\u00a0 windchill25\u00a0 Imbolc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon The struggle I talked about yesterday is a symptom of\u00a0a shift in attention in my inner life.\u00a0\u00a0When I pursued meditative and contemplative practices related to Christianity, the experience enriched and deepened me.\u00a0 When I moved away from Christianity, the … Continue reading A Taoist Druid with a Spading Fork in Hand<\/span>