Saturday, April 25, 2009
Moving Forward
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In the invitation, I stated that part of the rationale for this meditation blog was that some interested individuals might not be able to or want to go in person to the meditation sessions. In light of that, it makes good sense to allow those individuals to keep pace with the meditation themes being taken up in the on-site sessions, should they so desire.
Last week, we took up the theme "and the Word became flesh, and made his tent within us (GK's translation of the St.John Prologue)." Georg pointed out that this signifies that the Word has taken up residence in the weak, vulnerable, unfinished part of the soul.
In the ensuing Barfield Group session, where we were concluding our time with Georg Kuhlewind's The Light of the "I," it was decided that from among Georg's list of phrases for meditation at the back of the book we would work with "In the light, there is nothing." This seemingly contradictory phrase calls to mind quantum physics professor Arthur Zajonc's demonstration (in his book Catching the Light ) that a window opening into a container with a high intensity light source shining towards completely black walls reveals only darkness.
Walter
In the invitation, I stated that part of the rationale for this meditation blog was that some interested individuals might not be able to or want to go in person to the meditation sessions. In light of that, it makes good sense to allow those individuals to keep pace with the meditation themes being taken up in the on-site sessions, should they so desire.
Last week, we took up the theme "and the Word became flesh, and made his tent within us (GK's translation of the St.John Prologue)." Georg pointed out that this signifies that the Word has taken up residence in the weak, vulnerable, unfinished part of the soul.
In the ensuing Barfield Group session, where we were concluding our time with Georg Kuhlewind's The Light of the "I," it was decided that from among Georg's list of phrases for meditation at the back of the book we would work with "In the light, there is nothing." This seemingly contradictory phrase calls to mind quantum physics professor Arthur Zajonc's demonstration (in his book Catching the Light ) that a window opening into a container with a high intensity light source shining towards completely black walls reveals only darkness.
Walter
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Hello bloggers of the Spirit,
I just come across your blog and I got interested. Could you please expand a little more in detail what exactly Kuhlewind meant when he said:
"the Word has taken up residence in the weak, vulnerable, unfinished part of the soul", when he was referring to John's prologue "and the Word became flesh, and made his tent within us"?
Thank you,
CH
I just come across your blog and I got interested. Could you please expand a little more in detail what exactly Kuhlewind meant when he said:
"the Word has taken up residence in the weak, vulnerable, unfinished part of the soul", when he was referring to John's prologue "and the Word became flesh, and made his tent within us"?
Thank you,
CH
Dear Christian,
We are working on the prologue--the first 14 verses of the first chapter.
I understand Georg to have said that the spirit enters the not-fixed, not-yet formed part of us--the growing tip so to speak--which is therefore vulnerable, but also receptive. It has potential because it has remained fluid and can both receive and change.
Is that how you see it?
Walter
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We are working on the prologue--the first 14 verses of the first chapter.
I understand Georg to have said that the spirit enters the not-fixed, not-yet formed part of us--the growing tip so to speak--which is therefore vulnerable, but also receptive. It has potential because it has remained fluid and can both receive and change.
Is that how you see it?
Walter
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